CIO Bulletin

Ready Computing – Implementing health information exchanges for federal, state, and commercial entities

Ready Computing is a full-service, global IT firm, specializing in software development and data exchange solutions within the healthcare industry. Ready Computing works with customers to develop solutions that meet their unique needs – whether that involves deploying Ready Computing software applications, creating client-specific applications from scratch, or implementing an application from one of its trusted partners. Its team, consisting of developers, implementers, and support staff, provide full lifecycle support to optimize the ever-changing workflows that connect patients, providers, and payers. The firm offers fully-managed solutions to provide a truly turn-key experience to the customers it serve.

Ready Computing is compliant with and certified to a prestigious list of industry Standards that provide its clients and partners with assurance and confidence that it operates with defined processes and procedures that conform to strict guidelines. As an organization certified to the ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Standards, Ready Computing is capable and committed to delivering a level of service that is unparalleled within the Health IT industry. Please continue below to see what Quality means to Ready Computing and how the company leverages it to ensure consistent excellence across all lines of business.

Ready Computing - An Organization Certified to ISO Standards

Ready Computing’s commitment to Quality and ISO Standards stems from their unyielding determination to provide their clients and partners with a level of service that holistically and conclusively meets and exceeds expectations. As a Standards-centric organization, they have adopted, been certified to, and maintain compliance with a wide range of certifications, Standards, and governmental initiatives within their industry, including ISO, FAR Regulation, FDA, GDP, GXP, HIPAA, HITECH, and more. They apply their specialized knowledge of these certifications, Standards, and compliances to all of their projects and ingrain them from start to finish. Ultimately, this practice ensures continuity, quality, and consistency of service throughout their business relationship.

Ready Computing’s Executive Team is committed to establishing, implementing, integrating, and continually improving their Integrated Management System (IMS), which has been certified to ISO Standards and independently audited by a certified third-party auditor with industry-leading credentials. These certifications strengthen their position within the Health IT industry and enhance the project delivery capabilities by streamlining management, saving time, and increasing efficiency.

Channels 360: Empowers Social Determinants of Health Networks

Channels 360 provide SDHNs with essential tools to engage community stakeholders with residents and connect people with available services. Integrate lists and directories of agencies into a single source. Enable non-connected agencies to manage referrals and close the loop. Intervene with at-risk patients using SDOH screening tools, connect them with available services and help them remove barriers to quality care. Patients are enrolled in Channels 360 programs based on HIE alerts, data from population health, analytics engines, and even spreadsheets. Programs are defined in Channels 360 using a simple graphical modeler to assign tasks to a coordinator. Routine tasks can be fully automated. Staff leadership can quickly set up and implement programs, including assigning staff and managing workload and performance through dashboards.

Channels 360 can enroll patients in programs through real-time clinical events or pre-defined cohorts, Reduce intervention variation by creating structured program workflows, improve outcomes, quality scores, and patient satisfaction with the help of SDOH assessments, communicate SDOH data and other key information with providers via direct messaging, track staff performance in real-time and instantly adjust staff workload, and identify and deploy program improvements quickly, and efficiently.

Wellbase

It is highly customizable monitoring platform allows their support teams to access metrics through comprehensive dashboards, providing a “single pane of glass” experience. Wellbase is committed to managing risk and maintaining high availability, security, and integrity for their client’s systems and critical business applications. It is outfitted with the latest monitoring capabilities; personnel can log, track, monitor, and proactively respond to and report on application and system issues, allowing faster root-cause analysis and issue resolution. Wellbase Coordinator is a workflow solution that seamlessly integrates with support systems. See an increase in your team’s efficiency through automation so that users can prioritize actions in real-time.

Offering more than just infrastructure awareness, Wellbase exceeds industry standards by monitoring CPU, RAM, disk, storage, network, and other appliance metrics. Wellbase also monitors internal application and platform performance, including web response time, API performance, database read/writes, global, and custom metrics specific to the data platform.

Michael LaRocca | Founder & CEO

Michael leads the effort at Ready Computing, a passionate group of technologists exclusively focused on the creation, implementation, and management of innovative IT solutions. His expertise includes a thorough understanding of the healthcare IT standards, protocols, technologies, and architectures prescribed by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), Health Level 7 (HL7), the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP), and the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC).

Prior to starting Ready Computing in July 2011, Michael worked at InterSystems Corporation for nearly 16 years. As Senior Product Manager, Michael was not only responsible for the strategic direction, functional role, technical design, and overall adoption of HealthShare worldwide but also served as a senior developer that created core HealthShare components such as the IHE and CDA adapters. Michael was the Health Information Exchange “domain expert” within InterSystems and represented the company in key sales calls, marketing events, press interviews, technical workgroups, and other public activities. Michael also designed and executed the internal sales and technical training on HIE and HealthShare.

Michael is a strong believer that all relationships are built on trust. This is a core value of Ready Computing that extends from Michael to all corners of the Ready family.