Charter Solutions and Healthcare Quality Catalyst Form Strategic Alliance

MINNEAPOLIS and SALT LAKE CITY, January 28, 2010 - Charter Solutions, Inc., and Healthcare Quality Catalyst (HQC), LLC, today announced a strategic alliance to provide a unique combination of products and services offers to help healthcare organizations achieve quality improvements in less time and at a lower cost.

“This relationship means we can offer a proven quality-improvement and analytics solution to our customers,” said Dee Thibodeau, Charter Solutions founder.

HQC will provide quality-improvement and data-warehouse architecture methodologies, products, and consulting services. Charter Solutions will provide consulting services for data-warehousing and business-intelligence-solution design and implementation, clinical-outcomes analysis, and clinical-process mapping.

“Charter Solutions provides technical expertise in areas such as project management, data warehousing, business intelligence and business analysis that complement HQC’s methodologies, strategies, products and services,” said Steven Barlow, HQC co-founder.

Two key HQC methodologies are the Adaptive Improvement FrameworkSM and Adaptive Data Warehouse MethodologySM. These approaches provide tools and techniques for implementing a strategy of system-wide quality improvement by appropriately leveraging an adaptive data warehouse.

Barlow and HQC co-founder Thomas Burton developed their expertise at Intermountain Healthcare, known as a world leader in healthcare quality and data warehousing.

“Charter Solutions has demonstrated success in providing technical and business solutions for many healthcare organizations,” Burton said.

Charter Solutions and HQC will roll out the combined services this year and are already discussing their combined capabilities with several large healthcare organizations.

About Healthcare Quality Catalyst, LLC

Founded in 2008, Healthcare Quality Catalyst helps healthcare organizations improve their clinical quality and cost outcomes. Co-founders Thomas Burton and Steven Barlow are former leaders at Intermountain Healthcare, a world leader in healthcare quality improvement. Burton also teaches Quality Improvement courses at Intermountain Healthcare’s Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research. Barlow is a founding member of the Healthcare Data Warehousing Association (HDWA) and is widely recognized for his leadership and expertise in healthcare data warehousing. HQC’s Web site is www.hqcatalyst.com

Media Contact:
Mark Jahn, VP Healthcare Practice
Telephone: 763-230-6130
E-Mail: Mark.Jahn@CharterSolutions.com

Charter Solutions CTO Michael Krouze is a Keynote Speaker at the IT Architecture Regional Conference in San Diego, CA

Michael Krouze presented “Enterprise Decision Management: A Cornerstone in Agile Architecture,” in which he said,“Agile architectures allow systems to react to business changes with minimum effort and impact on core system code. Enterprise decision management is a key element in the creation of agile architectures.” His session will draw on real-life examples to illustrate how enterprise decision management tools and approaches act as enablers in creating agile architectures, whether you are using new techniques ( e.g., SOA) or evolving legacy architectures into agile ones.

The IT Architecture Regional Conference is the premier event in Southern California that addresses the pressing needs of IT architects today. It has over 30 seminars and four tracks separated by specialty: Enterprise, Software, Infrastructure, and Fundamentals. Architects of all levels can take their skills to the next level.

This event is run by the IASA (www.iasahome.org) and included presentations by Dave Chappell, VP and Chief Technologist of SOA at Oracle Corporation; Scott Ambler, Practice Leader of Agile Development at IBM; and Fred Waskiewicz, Director of Standards at Object Management Group.

 

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