Tim Gee Affiliates with Santa Rosa Consulting for Provider Consulting
This month marks the end my 5th year as an independent consultant. Over that time, I’ve had the opportunity to complete many great projects for a variety of clients, large and small. A basic objective has always been to provide services to both manufacturers and health care providers. The general knowledge gained — both current trends and the depths of complex issues — from working with providers has always benefited my manufacturer clients, the same holds true for providers based on the perspectives gained working for manufacturers.
While I’ve done projects for some great health care providers (Providence, RWJUH, Spectrum and Partners), most of my business has been on the vendor side. This past fall Marilyn Hailperin of Santa Rosa Consulting contacted me about working for their firm. We have entered into an agreement where all of my consulting for health care providers is done through Santa Rosa, while I continue to pursue consulting business with manufacturers as Medical Connectivity Consulting.
Santa Rosa Consulting was founded this year by Richard Helppie, the founder, Chair and CEO for Superior Consultant. One of the hospital consulting market segments Santa Rosa is targeting is point of care workflow automation and medical device integration. Here’s more from the press release:
As part of the Santa Rosa team, Mr. Gee will provide consulting services related to point-of-care technology strategy development, clinical workflow optimization, technology vendor selection, risk management of converged medical device/enterprise networks, and support for Santa Rosa’s PCDI [Patient Care Device Integration] implementation team.
Santa Rosa Associate Partner and National Practice Director for PCDI, Marilyn Hailperin, says, “We are pleased to have someone of Tim’s caliber on our team. He has long been an advocate and recognized authority on medical device connectivity. Tim brings essential real-world knowledge and expertise to our clients to maximize their investment in point-of-care technology, achieve the benefits of patient care device integration with information systems, and attain “meaningful use” certification with respect to medical device interoperability.”
While Santa Rosa gets to use me in their provider practice, my provider clients also benefit in a number of ways:
