Strategic Healthcare Group is a 2011 TechPoint Mira Award Finalist

Indianapolis, IN, March 28, 2011 - Strategic Healthcare Group LLC is among the finalists for the 2011 TechPoint Mira Award in the category of Health Care Information Technology (HIT). TechPoint’s Mira Awards recognize the achievements of Indiana’s outstanding technology performers and contributors. The HIT category recognizes organizations that have applied information technology to a healthcare system in an innovative way to enhance care and affordability. Strategic Healthcare Group (SHG) is honored to be recognized for using information technology to transform the U.S. healthcare system, reduce medical errors, improve care and cut waste and red tape.

Strategic Healthcare Group is the nation’s leading provider of blood management consulting and informatics solutions, partnering with the U.S. blood collection industry and a growing number of healthcare systems. The Strategic Blood Management™ System, one of SHG’s key offerings, is an end-to-end consulting and information technology solution designed to sustainably improve blood utilization in hospitals of every size and complexity. Hospitals using the Strategic Blood Management System have achieved reductions in blood utilization from 13% to 30%, resulting in millions of dollars in cost savings through the reduction of unnecessary transfusions while improving patient safety and the quality of care. 

Strategic Healthcare Group offers clients two distinct, but equally important services. The first, in partnership with digitalKnowledge and Sonar Studios, is an innovative Informatics Suite; a group of products that provide best-in-class blood management analytics, education and program support. Built from the ground up to accelerate program development and growth, the suite contains a learning management system: Blood Management University®, a knowledge management system: Blood Management Exchange®, and a proprietary data management system: BloodStat® Multidimensional Analytics. Second is the physician-led consulting group that is uniquely qualified to help implement safe, efficient and effective blood management practices. The Strategic Blood Management™ System uses a multidisciplinary, peer-to-peer approach that quickly gains credibility with hospital staff from front line nurses to staff physicians to hospital administrators. SHG’s comprehensive process helps hospitals quickly maximize results and the sustainable infrastructure and program support tools engrain blood management safety into the hospital culture. 

Strategic Healthcare Group is revolutionizing the way hospitals and healthcare organizations manage blood, and increasing stewardship of the community blood supply while improving patient safety and the quality of care through more efficient and effective blood utilization practices. This is health care reform at its finest. 

The Mira Award winners will be announced at the Mira Awards Gala Saturday, May 7, 2011 at the JW Marriott Indianapolis.

About Strategic Healthcare Group
Strategic Healthcare Group is a physician-led company that is uniquely qualified to help implement effective healthcare practices because of our clinical backgrounds and our experience in leading large scale change initiatives. The President and Founder of SHG is Dr. Timothy Hannon, one of the nation’s most knowledgeable and renowned blood management physicians. Our expert staff includes experienced nurses, risk managers and hospital executives; and our scientific advisors constitute the best and brightest in blood management. As clinicians we use methods that are evidence based and patient centered; as leaders in healthcare we are data driven and systems oriented.

Strategic Healthcare Group LLC
Timothy Hannon, MD, MBA, President & CEO
317-575-9301 x226
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