A new managed services deal in the healthcare sector has been forged between Excela Health and MSP Ciber. Ciber will deploy Infor financial system applications for the healthcare provider through the new relationship, as well as provide managed support for the software.
The move is designed to replace Excela’s outdated business and operational systems with a new integrated healthcare delivery system. The Infor solution will provide enhanced access to critical information and help the healthcare provider streamline processes, improve customer service and reduce costs.
Ciber is a specialist in deploying Infor solutions, and counts more than 150 healthcare providers among its customers. Infor’s solutions are increasingly being adopted by the healthcare sector along with pharmaceutical manufacturers, managed care companies and life sciences manufacturers and distributors. The offerings are designed to help drive business growth and quickly meet fluctuating business demands. Solutions for finance, supply chain management and operations may be deployed flexibly, either in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid cloud configuration.
"We wanted more than a routine IT implementation," said Timothy Loch, CFO of Excela Health. "We needed a top-notch business and technology transformation that would provide us with a more efficient purchasing and procurement process, allow us to produce consolidated financial statements through an integrated financial system, and enable us to have better predictability of future financial performance."
Excela will be using the Infor Lawson Supply Chain Management and Infor Enterprise Financial Management solutions. By using both the cloud and managed services from Ciber, the offerings will reduce the cost of the healthcare provider’s IT systems and free resources and capital to expand other areas of their business.
The healthcare industry has increasingly been turning to the cloud and MSPs to improve efficiencies and satisfy a dizzying array of compliance mandates. According to MarketsandMarkets, healthcare IT adoption is growing at a steady rate of 20 percent per year, and is expected to reach $5.4 billion by 2017. The market will hit $3.9 billion by the end of this year, a far cry from 2011 numbers, when only around four percent of healthcare IT providers had adopted some form of cloud computing.
"At the heart of truly transformative software integration are programs and strategies - not just software - that define the outcome of an IT deployment, such as for Excela Health," said Beth Dvoracek, vice president of Infor practice at Ciber. "By improving visibility into their financial commitments and supporting strategic planning across functions and entities, our engagement with Excela can help provide decision makers with actionable insights to drive business growth."
Edited by
Alisen Downey
