East Norriton, PA - August 13, 2007 - ActiveStrategy, Inc. (www.activestrategy.com), the leading provider of complete Enterprise Strategy Execution consulting and software, announced that Exempla Healthcare, a Denver-based health system recognized for its focus on quality, has chosen to automate their Dashboard-based performance management framework in ActiveStrategy Enterprise (ASE) software.

Exempla Healthcare had been building their Dashboard-based performance framework for several years and had found that the spreadsheet-based system helped the organization develop much better views of critical measures. However, the executive team determined that this internally-built system of report cards was not capable of taking their performance to the next level because it lacked drill-down capabilities and was not able to effectively link performance improvement activities to the critical measures across the system’s three hospitals and 32 service lines.

“Performance measurement is the easy part. What our leadership needs is an ability to link performance improvement efforts to respective measures so we can see what work is being done, what plans are not being executed as effectively as they could be, and who is accountable,” explained Rob Beardall, MD, Exempla’s Chief Medical Information Officer. “This was the goal we had in mind when we chose to move our performance measures into ActiveStrategy Enterprise software.”

The ASE software system will be utilized to review the organization’s business performance, starting from the very top of the organization. The CEO will be able to click on a key strategic measure on his Balanced Scorecard and drill down to reveal information about the key drivers of this measure. ASE makes these linkages clearly visible to the CEO and all the owners of the drivers, allowing the organization to enact proactive improvement plans.

As Exempla builds more levels of “cascaded” performance measures, everyone from the Board of Directors down through the staff will be able to see if they are actually executing plans that will drive improved performance. This will help the organization improve coordination and alignment across the three hospitals.

As Dr. Beardall puts it, “ActiveStrategy software gives us a way to see what we should really be talking about in our quality review meetings and other key performance discussions. We will now know exactly what we need to do in order to ‘move the dots’ on the performance measures that we already know are most important.”

About Exempla Healthcare

Exempla Healthcare is a community-based and not-for-profit health care system based in the Denver, Colorado area with a strong focus on quality clinical outcomes and value delivery to the communities it serves. The health system is comprised of Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center, Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital, and Exempla Physician Network. All three hospitals have achieved national recognition, including various listings in HCIA's 100 Top Hospitals, VHA Leadership Awards for Clinical Excellence, accreditation by the Society of Chest Pain Centers, and recognition by Solucient Top 100 Hospitals.

About ActiveStrategy, Inc.

Based in East Norriton, PA, ActiveStrategy, Inc. focuses exclusively on helping clients achieve business results through a combination of business consulting services and the leading enterprise application suite to facilitate and accelerate strategy execution.

The Enterprise Strategy Execution (ESE) management process encompasses strategic planning, objective and measure deployment, business process alignment, performance reporting, and improvement initiative management.

ActiveStrategy applications support all major management methodologies including the Balanced Scorecard, Malcolm Baldrige Criteria, Six Sigma, and Management by Objectives. ActiveStrategy clients include leading organizations in healthcare, government, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, non-profit, and high-technology sectors. For more information, visit www.activestrategy.com.

 

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