CPSI encourages its workers to dream – and dream large.
CPSI is an digital well being file and monetary well being IT vendor. It gives enterprise, consulting and managed IT companies, together with a collection of income cycle administration merchandise designed to assist streamline day-to-day income features and improve productiveness.
The corporate’s affected person engagement expertise is designed to offer sufferers and suppliers with the data and instruments they should share current scientific information and analytics that assist value-based care, enhance outcomes and enhance affected person satisfaction.
In 2022, CPSI launched a program known as the Dream Manufacturing facility, a company-wide suppose tank to quickly carry to market buyer function requests and worker concepts for enchancment. This system was spearheaded by CPSI’s Chief Expertise and Innovation Officer Wes Cronkite.
Seventy-eight workers unfold throughout 19 self-formed groups developed distinctive tasks and revolutionary concepts to boost CPSI’s present expertise and processes. Matters included AI, machine studying, income technology and price financial savings. Whereas concepts have been unique, they included consumer suggestions. This chance ignited pleasure amongst workers to suggest one thing utterly new and impactful.
We interviewed Cronkite to get an in-depth look into the Dream Manufacturing facility so different well being IT distributors and even supplier group IT departments might study from CPSI’s expertise.
Q. Please clarify what the Dream Manufacturing facility is, its objectives, and who’s concerned.
A. The story of the Dream Manufacturing facility started at our Nationwide Consumer Convention in Could 2022 in St. Louis. Underneath the precept that innovation can’t be achieved in a vacuum and prospects have to be introduced into the method early, our preliminary objective was to open a door for purchasers to carry their large concepts and want lists.
We arrange a station on the consumer group for purchasers to debate these concepts and enter them right into a portal for voting. The highest voted concept would lead to a take-home prize for the shopper who entered it. We deliberately named this method of taking prospects’ concepts (desires) and changing them to tangible options (manufacturing facility) the Dream Manufacturing facility.
To get the innovation manufacturing facility operating, we then challenged our whole group to ship options surrounding buyer concepts utilizing an agile method the place the options could be delivered inside a month’s time. That was the one steerage we gave our groups. From there, they self-organized and spent the subsequent month engaged on their options.
Our objective was to show to ourselves (and to our prospects) that even within the closely regulated atmosphere of healthcare companies and expertise, we might ship immediately what our prospects wanted – and do it in a well timed method.
The Dream Manufacturing facility set the stage for an organizational transformation at CPSI. Groups aligned into new scaled agile working fashions and delivered greater than 30 options as part of the month-long problem.
Q. 78 workers unfold throughout 19 self-formed groups developed distinctive tasks and concepts to boost your organization’s present expertise and processes. Please elaborate on how this labored and what got here out of it.
A. In 2023 we determined to once more problem our workers. However this time we knew our prospects and workers wanted one thing a bit totally different. With the general public launch of ChatGPT’s generative AI options and new inside technological capabilities, we advanced the Dream Manufacturing facility problem right into a “Large Concept” occasion for 2023.
We requested our workers to supply ideas together with a full enterprise and implementation plan for delivering worth to our prospects by means of nascent applied sciences. The working mannequin for the Large Concept problem was principally the identical because the Dream Manufacturing facility whereby self-managed groups current their options to a judging panel and a winner is chosen.
The highly effective ingredient added in 2023 was to show the Large Concept right into a “manufacturing facility” to be constructed and delivered in 2024. The successful crew was additionally in a position to faucet into CPSI’s dedication to profession mobility and upskilling as a part of the answer.
Nineteen groups introduced very well-thought-out large concepts benefitting CPSI prospects, our firm and healthcare supply at giant. The successful crew produced an in depth concept and implementation plan to feed the copious quantity of assist ticketing information and our current product documentation right into a generative AI mannequin.
The ensuing resolution gives a chat interface for our assist representatives to assist prospects with product points. Within the subsequent part, the identical resolution will work together immediately with prospects to enhance the assist expertise and drive higher utilization of our merchandise.
Q. Please provide one instance of a profitable new software that emanated from the Dream Manufacturing facility and is in place in your expertise choices right this moment. How did it develop and what are supplier organizations doing with it right this moment?
A. Many options originating from the preliminary Dream Manufacturing facility problem in 2022 made their solution to CPSI’s services. Nonetheless, one standout moved the downstream means of high quality measures reporting additional upstream within the care cycle by integrating alerts and insights immediately on the level of care inside our EHR.
Now clinicians and ancillary workers are instantly conscious of areas which will seemingly trigger a unfavorable influence on high quality measures. Proactive actions may be taken from the beginning as an alternative of ready for retrospective high quality efficiency reviews.
Our prospects got here alongside for the journey and finally this one standout software led to further workflow enhancements for nurses, enabling them to ship extra environment friendly, high-quality care.
Q. What recommendation would you provide your friends at different HIT vendor organizations who want to do one thing comparable?
A. My recommendation could be that if you’re feeling defeated or overwhelmed with driving innovation, contemplate taking a few of the approaches that made CPSI’s Dream Manufacturing facility a hit:
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Convey each workers and prospects into the method early.
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Use Agile strategies to make sure a speedy path to worth supply.
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Incent workers each with compensation and with profession mobility and development to partake in occasions.
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Make it enjoyable. Take the company sports activities jacket off for a short while and placed on an innovation cowboy hat.
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Have fun the victory.
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