Health Systems in Chicago, Pennsylvania Select onFocus Healthcare for Enterprise Performance Management

NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- onFocus Healthcare, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise performance management and business execution solutions for the healthcare services marketplace, today announced that Franciscan St. James Health in Chicago and Susquehanna Health in Williamsport, Pa., will use its software to increase employee goal execution and performance monitoring on critical strategic, financial, and clinical initiatives across their healthcare delivery networks.

The hospitals join a growing number of healthcare providers across the country using onFocus' integrated, data- and action plan-driven technology solutions and advisory services. onFocus epm™ , the company's premier software solution, helps healthcare organizations link key performance indicators with leadership responsibility, action planning, and monitoring to increase accountability and performance throughput on critical business objectives. By combining business intelligence and performance management functionality into a single solution, executives are able to assign employees to critical tasks and track their progress in real time, increasing execution on strategic and operational objectives by as much as 30 percent.

Franciscan St. James will use onFocus epm™ to further improve and ensure the performance of its Chicago Heights and Olympia Fields campuses in five strategic areas – people, quality of care, growth, service, and finance. Susquehanna Health will use the software to drive faster and more optimal results for its primary goals of patient experience, people, quality, innovation, and value throughout its three hospitals, owned physician group, nine corporate departments and 20 service lines.

"In order for hospitals to succeed in the post healthcare reform economy, they will need a heightened level of mastery and monitoring of core, critical processes, outcomes, resources, and other integrated components at levels never required before," said Steven J. Mason, Jr., President and CEO of onFocus Healthcare. "We are excited to support these two excellent health systems as they automate their management processes and optimize performance with our proven tools that allow them to run their enterprises more efficiently."

About onFocus

onFocus Healthcare, Inc., serves a broad cross-section of healthcare organizations, including large for-profit systems, community and non-profit hospitals, as well as large academic medical centers.  Launched in 2008, the company supports high-performance healthcare organizations through the delivery of performance-based technology solutions and advisory services.  For more information, please call, 615.871.4321 or visit us online at www.onfocushealthcare.com.       

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