Colaborate

Colaborate is a full-service laboratory consultancy focused upon achieving profitable growth and quality improvement for all types of healthcare organizations, each facing multiple complex challenges. Colaborate clients include integrated health systems, academic medical centers, community hospitals, large physician group practices, clinical laboratories, pathology groups, healthcare purchasers, and strategic healthcare investors.

With over 25 years of industry experience, Colaborate’s seasoned experts work closely with leadership to chart a course for groundbreaking organizational development. We are actively involved in every step of the implementation of your business’ customized strategy, and work meticulously to ensure a seamless transition to successful internal continuance. Colaborate focuses upon designing and delivering long-term strategic solutions with quantifiable and significant returns on investment.

Unlike many consulting firms, Colaborate’s networked business associates include industry leaders who are widely respected by healthcare and hospital executives. Our people are highly respected, not purely because we’re consultants, but because we are experienced laboratory professionals who have spent a significant amount of time in the laboratory industry. Together, Colaborate is fully committed to providing all the resources and expertise available to meet the specific needs of our client organizations.

Who we are, those we serve, and what we deliver…

Colaborate is a full-service medical laboratory consultancy made up of seasoned lab experts and business associates. Dedicated exclusively to the lab industry, we deliver strategic tools, best practice technology, and innovative solutions to meet the specific needs of our client organizations.

Our extensive experience and ability to get the job done efficiently and cost-effectively are why leading healthcare providers consistently select us to deliver obtainable and sustainable improvement. Our goal is to always leave our clients in a better place than where we found them.

Advisory Services

Colaborate has the expertise to provide our clients with comprehensive operational assessments, in such areas as facilities observations, workflow analyses, test menu offerings, equipment inspection, leadership / compensation, outreach offerings, fee schedules, billing and collections. Utilizing these objective assessments, we evaluate multiple organizational weaknesses that may negatively impact your lab’s results and future growth strategies, and supply you with the necessary procedures for improvement.

Financial Services

Because of today’s highly regulated and competitive environment, labs are faced with unique marketplace issues, practice patterns, reimbursement and compliance issues. Colaborate’s approach is to assist clients in navigating these uncertainties and to position the organization for a successful, sustainable future. We balance financial, strategic and operational initiatives in offering support and developing implementation plans for our clients.

Financial Services

Technology Services

We’ve specifically built a team of experts to address the specialized clinical information integration and connectivity needs of both hospital-based and independent clinical labs. From strategic assessments to systems evaluation, selection and implementation (including complex interface design and development), we’ll help you circumvent the potential pitfalls and maximize the return on your IT-related investments. Your valued capital and operating budgets are fully leveraged to deliver automation improvements and address key clinical lab hot buttons.

We’re a full-service laboratory IT consultancy with the experience and capabilities to overcome most any information integration and connectivity-related obstacles your organization is facing. Feel free to contact us today so that we may begin to discuss your unique challenges. We look forward to the opportunity to serve you.

Leadership

Not only do the principals of our firm enjoy the privilege of working with some of the country’s most respected leaders in the healthcare industry, they themselves have served in positions of senior management for premier healthcare organizations, including large health systems, managed care organizations, and commercial laboratories. This experience translates into sound, innovative, objective advice to create impactful and measurable solutions for our clients. Above all, we pride ourselves on being ethical and approachable individuals whose underlying mission is to do what it takes to make our clients successful.

Kevin Hunter, President, CEO