The mission of Health Systems Management Network is to provide acute-care hospitals and other healthcare delivery systems with efficient and practical systems to optimize revenue and operations while maintaining the highest quality of care.
Successful Outcomes
Health Systems Management Network is a consulting group offering outcome-oriented services to hospitals and other healthcare delivery systems competing in the managed care environment. We have specialized in the overhaul of management processes and systems for documentation and clinical data to support our clients' visions for change, competitiveness and clinical excellence. Documentation is the lifeblood of every healthcare delivery system. It flows through every facet of your organization, from admitting to final billing. It is the foundation for clinical quality and the development of best demonstrated practices. It is the means for administrative review and control. And perhaps most important in today's climate of cost containment, documentation is the basis for equitable reimbursement and revenue enhancement.Health Systems
Management Network has pioneered methodologies that assess quality of clinical
data, organizational effectiveness, case mix, policies, procedures, electronic
support, and staff and skill levels to yield a comprehensive documentation
and clinical data management plan. This plan is focused to yield benefits
in clinical quality, resource management and strategic competitiveness.
These methods have been tested and refined over years of application in
the demanding environment of some of the world's busiest hospitals and
with the full support and cooperation of their distinguished medical staffs.
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Principals
Cathy Idema BSN, MPH, AAHC, ACHEMs. Idema, President of Health Systems Management Network, received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan. Prior to her consulting career, she spent 10 years in Nursing and Hospital Administration; her last hospital post was Director of Emergency and Ambulatory Services at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. As President of Health Systems Management Network, Ms. Idema directs a healthcare management consulting practice that has as its focus the support of the hospital's revenue stream through operational assessments of the documentation process, coding, charge systems and the utilization of hospital resources. Ms. Idema has had extensive experience in the implementation of case management programs.
Theo Tarantini MA, MS, CHC
Mr. Tarantini earned his Master of Arts at Fordham University and his
Master of Science in Hospital Administration at the Columbia University
School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine. Prior to beginning
his consulting career, Mr. Tarantini was Deputy Executive Director at the
Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, one of New York City's Health and
Hospitals Corporations member hospitals, a public hospital. He began his
career as an Assistant Director of the Beth Israel Medical Center at the
Gouverneur Health Services Program Division, the first federally funded
large Neighborhood Health Center. Mr. Tarantini's assignments included
the commissioning of the New Gouverneur Hospital, and acting as the Hospital's
Operating Officer. After 12 years "on the line," Mr. Tarantini turned his
experience to assisting COOs and CEOs in carrying out their hospitals'
missions.
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