Beaufort Memorial Hospital and InfoPartners Sign Information Systems Management Partnership Agreement.Business Editors NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2001 InfoPartners, Inc., a Nashville-based healthcare information systems management and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , and Beaufort Memorial Hospital, Beaufort, South Carolina Beaufort is a city in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, situated on the Beaufort River. 304 acres of the town have been designated a National Historic Landmark. The city-limit population was 12,950 in the 2000 census (46,227 total pop. of Beaufort Urban Cluster). , recently initiated an Information Systems Management Partnership Agreement. Under the Agreement, InfoPartners will assume responsibility for the management of the Information Systems (IS) Department and coordination of all aspects of Beaufort Memorial's IS agenda. Provisions include IS strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , project and technology management, systems selection and integration. The initial term of the Agreement is for three years. "Beaufort Memorial's strategic alliance with InfoPartners will help our organization manage and achieve our IS objectives over the next several years, and give us access to managerial and analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. IS resources that we otherwise wouldn't have," said Jeffrey L. White, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Beaufort Memorial. "We have been given the chance to work with a fine organization in Beaufort Memorial Hospital," said James F. Baxter, Senior Vice President of InfoPartners. "It is even more meaningful they chose our value-added Information Systems Management Partnership (ISMP ISMP Institute for Safe Medication Practices ISMP InstallShield MultiPlatform ISMP International Society of Meeting Planners ISMP ISF (Information Strike Force) Service Management Plan ISMP Integrated Systems Management Processor ) as a multi-year, strategic relationship to bring in more IS systems analyst and management expertise to complement their own resources and talents. This arrangement is an effective way to leverage and manage resources to ensure information systems is both an integral and successful part of the overall business strategy of healthcare providers." Established in 1944, Beaufort Memorial Hospital has grown from a small-town hospital with limited services to a high-quality regional referral center. Licensed for 182-beds and located in one of the fastest growing counties in South Carolina The U.S. state of South Carolina is made up of 46 counties. They range in size from 392 square miles (1,016 square kilometers) in the case of Calhoun County to 1,358 square miles (3,517 square kilometers) in the case of Charleston County. , Beaufort Memorial is the largest hospital between Savannah Savannah, city, United States Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. and Charleston. InfoPartners, Inc. is an independent healthcare information systems management and consulting firm. Serving a national client base, InfoPartners provides systems planning, selection, implementation and strategic outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. solutions to hospitals, physician organizations and other healthcare provider entities. In addition to its consulting practice, InfoPartners' currently has 20 hospitals under contract for its Information Systems Management Partnership (ISMP) service offering, representing sole and multi-entity healthcare providers. Through the ISMP service model, InfoPartners' serves the community-based, healthcare provider. |
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