Healthcare & Life Sciences

Edgewater Technology’s Healthcare Practice is working with leading providers, payers and life sciences organizations, delivering on the promise of strategic technology management services and solutions, to drive improvement and innovation in diverse clinical, operational and financial settings. While our name includes the word ‘technology’ we understand clearly that the success of any program depends foremost on its focus on the core business challenges and opportunities of the enterprise. Technology form follows, and transforms, business function.

Our service approach consists of understanding the unique and specific requirements of our clients’ operations and business objectives, and tailoring an improvement strategy or technology solution to meet those needs. We bring deep expertise across the entire life cycle of technology solution delivery, including strategy, vision creation, requirements capture, metrics design, technical architecture and design, custom development, quality assurance and organizational deployment and governance.

We have assisted clients in numerous application settings and solution areas, where the organization is striving to improve operational effectiveness, protect or enhance key corporate assets (including data), expand analytic capacity, facilitate regulatory compliance, or achieve a competitive advantage. We have deep experience in large-scale systems and data integration efforts where disparate systems and data sources must be brought together to deliver an effective solution for the client organization. This is in addition to our broad domain knowledge in healthcare, and extensive technical expertise in various data management, data warehousing and web-based application technologies.

Challenges

Healthcare organizations are facing significant challenges from every direction.  Patients, payers and regulators are demanding the highest quality care, to be delivered in a context of increased access and greater transparency across care settings.   Providers must continually strive to raise the quality and consistency of patient outcomes, increasing productivity, while holding down the costs, and are being challenged to implement new technologies (information, diagnostic, therapeutic) at a very rapid pace.  Payers struggle to drive the greatest benefits and outcomes for their members and groups, leveraging each dollar they collect and spend over the longitudinal cycle of care.