The Ficus Consulting Group

Marlborough, United States

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The Ficus Consulting Group is focused on providing reliable services and support to providers who are considering or already utilizing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) application. We guide individuals or group practices in selecting and implementing an EHR systems. Our services are tailored to each organization’s unique and specific needs in order to overcome the challenges that can arise during the EHR selection and implementation process. Our goal is simple — to ensure superior client satisfaction during every step along the way to a successful EHR adoption.

The federal government has established new incentives for healthcare providers that implement and meaningfully use a federally compliant EHR application. The federal government has also established penalties for those who do not. There are more than 300 EHR applications marketed to healthcare providers, some of which do not even have the required functionality to allow healthcare providers to meet the new governmental standar

History

Established in 2009.

From the highest levels of government, hospitals and clinics are being encouraged to adopt EHR systems as a

means of cutting costs. However, doctors and hospital administrators rarely have the professional knowledge

needed to select between the multiple products available on the market. EHR systems are expensive and they

come in a range of packages designed to meet the diverse needs of an even more diverse base of prospective

customers, which includes hospitals, doctors’ offices, clinics, urgent care centers, and more.

The Ficus Consulting Group provides reliable EHR consulting services and support to physicians. The Company

guides individuals or group practices in selecting an EHR system and the hardware to support it. The Company’s

process includes pre-​implementation support, training, post-​implementation support, and practice management.

The Ficus Consulting Group’s services are tailored to each organization’s unique and specific needs in order to

reduce or eliminate the difficultie

Meet the Business Owner

Richmond A.

Business Owner

Richmond Appiah Jr. is an experienced Healthcare IT Executive and

Entrepreneur who has a proven track record in Electronic Health Record

Implementation Strategies, data and network security methodologies and

Hospital Data Integration Projects for well over 250 medical facilities.

Richmond has maintained various skills sets in program coordination with the likes of EHR software products such as eClinicalworks, Athena Net, Epic, Cerner Millennium, Allscripts, Nextgen Electronic Health Record Pre /​Post Implementation preparation & has implemented and advised Medical Office IT infrastructure, Practice Management, and Workflow Analysis strategies with various healthcare systems.

Richmond is a former PPOC Chief Information Security Officer at the PediatricsPhysicians Organization, as well as Senior Trainer and Senior Application Analyst, at the Children’s Hospital Boston.