HCIC Business Partners
The following business partners work with us on projects and bring additional expertise and staffing to our clients:
Beacon Healthcare Consulting
Beacon Healthcare Consulting brings professionals with strong clinical information experience, as well direct patient care expertise. Their track record of project management of clinical implementations and product development projects can position a client for successful clinical transformation.
- Marina Douglas, RN, MS, Principal
- Brenda Wright, RN, MS, Principal
Brandywine Health Systems Consultants
Brandywine HealthSystems provides results-driven consulting for healthcare providers and suppliers.
The hallmark of Brandywine HealthSystems is providing our clients with high value consulting services which improve their operations and bottom line.
- Mark Gross, President
Brickhouse Martin Healthcare Engineering
B•MHE is a management and technology consulting group dedicated to helping clients gain insight and maintain focus on improvement opportunities. We are a woman-owned, small business specializing in service to healthcare organizations.
Since April 1991, B•MHE has provided the health care community with consulting services to help clients manage the momentum of change.
Capital Healthcare Group, LLC (CHG)
A healthcare consulting firm specializing in providing expert consultants and teams who work with providers to achieve excellent outcomes. CHG, founded in 1999, provides health care management expertise including accreditation preparation and survey follow-up, operations assistance, design of quality improvement programs, outcome measures, sales and marketing, as well as business start up.
- Mary Ellen Conway, President
Computer Network Architects, Inc.
Computer Network Architects, Inc. (CNA) provides expert and independent systems integration assistance to healthcare organizations. CNA is one of the most experienced consulting firms specializing in Systems Integration Consulting.
- Michael L. Glickman, President
Consent Solutions, Inc.
Consent Solutions, Inc. provides customized electronic solutions to informed consent. Those solutions include online consent documents with embedded education and candidate self-assessment of understanding, websites for patients and clinical trial candidates, and video and animation. ConsentSolutions provides consent translation and localization, and clinical site training. ConsentSolutions offers a staff with over 15 years of experience in the areas of online data management and patient education. Our staff is drawn from the IT, patient education and health care arenas. The signature product from ConsentSolutions is SecureConsent.
- Susan Brink, President and CEO
Five Star Development Inc.
Five Star Development Inc. enables clients to execute strategy by helping them achieve and sustain high-performance organizations. In healthcare, Five Star specifically focuses on identifying and removing obstacles hindering clinician buy-in and engagement for critical strategies to improve patient care. Five Star successfully engages hospital leadership in the process of executing technology, process/quality improvement, and people strategies by providing consulting and development services tailored to meet their client’s needs.
- Lou Camerlengo, President
Kirkland Partners, LLC
Kirkland Partners serves large corporations and private equity firms in the areas of business strategy, knowledge management, and corporate learning. Launched from McKinsey & Co. as Director of Knowledge Management, Kirkland conducts consulting projects involving business unit strategy, new product introductions, growth initiatives and assessments of acquisitions or joint ventures; facilitation, coaching and support for corporate strategic planning processes; and custom executive education programs delivered through business schools or corporate universities.
- Jane Kirkland, President and Founder
Maestro Strategies LLC.
A nationally recognized healthcare management consulting firm specializing in technology driven change, information technology strategy and value improvement projects for health care providers.
- Pam Arlotto, President & CEO
MaxIT
MaxIT excels in aligning the client's strategic business objectives with the proper learning technology. We take the time to understand the needs of our clients. We deliver real results that reduce cost and risk, increase productivity and quality and enable exciting and inspiring ways to get work done. With MaxIT you have the security of working with an established, financially solid company that knows its business well and attacks each day with the passion and enthusiasm of loving what we do.
- Suzanne Jenkins, Regional Vice President
McBee Associates, Inc.
A recognized leader in providing managerial and financial consulting services to the health care industry. Established in 1973, the firm has developed into one of the nation's largest, independent health care financial consulting practices by delivering quality service throughout the industry.
- Martin A. Brutscher, Senior Vice President
mEDhealth advisors, LLC 
mEDhealth advisors is dedicated to providing consulting services to the healthcare information technology industry. Our deep domain knowledge in healthcare IT combined with our clinical and operational capabilities position us to deliver strategic consulting services to providers, payers, government, and HIT vendors.
- Kimberly Miller-Klein, CPHIMS, President
- Gary M. Klein, MD, MPH, MBA, Chief Medical Officer
New Heights Consulting, LLC
New Heights Consulting, LLC represents a seasoned team of professionals that bring forth skill sets and expertise that enable their clients to achieve new levels of health improvement thru information strategies and technologies. Specialized services include HIT/HIE strategic and operational plan development, systems selection and implementation.
- Denise Reeser, Founder and Managing Principal
Pitts Management Associates
Founded in 1981 by David R. Pitts, Pitts Management Associates has a long-standing reputation for excellence and results-oriented expertise in strategic and operational consultation to the Hospital and Healthcare Industry. We have worked with over 900 clients in nearly every state. Our clients are some of the most highly respected and prestigious healthcare systems in our nation. Our engagements, from a hospital and integrated delivery system point-of-view, have been limited to the not-for-profit arena and have been conducted throughout the country – in large metropolitan areas, regional cities, and smaller urban areas – with community, government, and religious-owned institutions.
- Kimberly Murray, MBA, SVP / COO and Managing Director
STS Consulting Group
STS Consulting Group (STS) is your trusted partner for strategic technology solutions with expertise in Enterprise Analytics, Data Governance, and Strategic Technology Roadmaps. The STS team delivers upon the vision of “Enterprise Intelligence through governance, people, process, and technology excellence” in healthcare, financial services, public sector, and the commercial software industry.
Strategies for Tomorrow, Inc.
The consulting team of Camilla Brown, Raul Zavaleta, and Jim Wheeler helps people develop and implement community and enterprise-wide electronic health networks.
- Camilla Brown, Principal and Founder
Vulcan Enterprises
Think Build Operate
Vulcan serves as a guide, enabling organizations to achieve their business goals and advance their ongoing efforts in the health IT market. Vulcan concentrates on health information technology, health information exchange and the analysis of the funding opportunities, via grants and contracts and targeted agencies, pursuant to the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
- Joyce Hunter, President