Picis Names Jo Ann Ploen Vice President of Business Transformation/Consulting; Service Expanding in Response to Growing Demand for ROI Analysis.WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Picis, Inc., the market leader in high-acuity care automation software, today announced that Jo Ann Ploen has been named vice president of business transformation/consulting. In this new position, Ploen will help grow the company's strategic business transformation services. The services enable Picis' healthcare customers to tie business objectives and goals to process and IT improvements in surgery, intensive care and emergency departments. Ploen will expand Picis consulting services to promote benchmarking and ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). analysis, which are fundamental to the company's role as a high-acuity partner. She will report directly to Kevin Pettet, executive vice president of client operations. "Picis is seeing high demand from hospital's "C" suite to tie business and financial objectives with improvements in process, efficiency and patient care," said Todd Cozzens, chief executive officer and vice-chairman, Picis. "Picis has built a reputation on partnering with healthcare organizations to transform their high-acuity care areas into highly efficient operations. The expansion of our consulting services furthers our commitment to this partnership." Prior to joining Picis, Ploen held a position at McKesson Provider Technologies as vice president of sales for the Midwestern states. She has also held several consulting positions including one at First Consulting Group where she was responsible for information system analysis, design and implementation; and developed strategic information technology plans to enhance customer's strategic position in the marketplace. Ploen attended University of South Florida • • [ where she earned a bachelor's degree in business administration specializing in marketing and management. "By delivering high impact solutions/services to our customers, Picis enables healthcare organizations to realize a measurable and demonstrable result for their high-acuity business," said Ploen. "Through process, people and technology, we will help customers optimize their business, standardize services and deploy solutions tied to business results and best practices." Ploen has twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. of experience working in healthcare informatics both as a vendor and as a consultant. In addition she has published articles on unique patient identifier, enterprise scheduling and various topics for both First Consulting Group and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Founded in 1961, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a healthcare industry membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of medical informatics technology and management systems. (HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ) organizations, and served previously as vice president of programs and membership for the greater Chicago chapter of the HIMSS Board. About Picis Picis is the leading, worldwide provider of information systems that deliver proven best-in-cluster patient care transformation for the highest-acuity care areas of the hospital -- the emergency department, the operating room operating room n. Abbr. OR A room equipped for performing surgical operations. and the intensive care unit. Headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States located ten miles northeast of Boston. The population was 24,804 at the 2000 census. History Wakefield was first settled in 1639 and was officially incorporated in 1812. , Picis has installed systems in more than 900 medical centers and hospital networks worldwide including over 700 in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , automating more surgical procedures Surgical procedures have long and possibly daunting names. The meaning of many surgical procedure names can often be understood if the name is broken into parts. For example in splenectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. "Splene-" means spleen. , emergency visits and intensive care stays than any other company in the world. Picis has received numerous awards, including those from Microsoft, Ernst & Young, HCIT HCIT How Cool Is That? Research, Healthcare Informatics and Frost and Sullivan. Picis was recently named to both the Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 and the Inc. Magazine 500 lists (105th overall) of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. More information is available at www.picis.com. |
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