Nashville chamber names Future 50 winners (The Tennessean)

By Randy McClain.  A wide variety of businesses have been named winners of the 2009 Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Future 50 awards. The awards, now in their 18th year, are part of a chamber program designed to recognize the 50 fastest growing privately owned companies in the Nashville area. The Tennessean is among sponsors of the event. To qualify, …

Five Nashville health care IT firms in top 100 (Nashville Business Journal)

Five Nashville area companies made it onto this year’s Healthcare Informatics Magazine 100 list. The list ranks companies based on revenue made from health information technology. Topping the local winners was Franklin-based Spheris, which ranked No. 28 with 2008 revenue of $182 million. Healthcare Management Systems Inc. in Nashville came in at No. 45, with $68 million. Rounding out the …

Recession Busters — Cumberland keeps open book with employees, customers (Nashville Business Journal)

Nashville Business Journal - by Linda Bryant Contributing Writer.    Transparency has become a national buzzword, usually referring to the public having access to information about where the money is going in business and government. Cumberland Consulting Group LLC takes the concept seriously when it comes to their own employees. They turn the transparency mirror inward, sharing the fine details of …

Seven Small Jewels 2009: The Hidden Gems of the Profession (Consulting Magazine)

Small firms are no longer flying under the radar. In these uncertain times, that much we can be sure of. In many ways, Consulting magazine’s Seven Small Jewels is a wonderful reflection of the profession itself, and this year’s winners represent the best small, niche firms of the profession. These “little firms that could” are having a big impact on …

Cumberland Consulting Poised for Future Growth Takes on New Partner

Much is changing in the healthcare technology landscape and just about everyone- the public,  business leaders, patients and physicians all see that electronic medical record (EMR) solutions are the wave of the future. A Nashville, TN-based technology consulting firm specializing in technology solutions for improving patient care and lowering costs, is celebrating its fifth anniversary and is positioning itself for …

Cumberland Consulting Group secures contract with St. Louis Grace Hill

Cumberland Consulting Group, a national consulting firm providing technology implementation services to the healthcare industry, today announced a new contract with Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers, Inc. to implement a practice management, electronic medical record and dental record system in all six of its clinics and two management offices. Cumberland will be providing project management and implementation support services. The …

EMR as opportunity (HealthCare IT News)

Commentary by David Vreeland, Cumberland Consulting Group.   By now most people in healthcare recognize the benefits of an electronic medical record systems to patient safety and care quality. Historically the costs (both hard and soft) of acquiring and implementing these solutions have limited widespread adoption in the physician office setting. Without financial support, only a small percentage of physicians are …

Tech-savvy med students fear life without EMRs (American Medical News)

Young doctors trained on technology say they feel less capable if they have to go into an environment that does not have it. By Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews staff For the next generation of physicians, information technology is as essential a tool as the stethoscope — so much so that they are uneasy when they are confronted with practicing in …

A Cause That’s A Cure: Electronic Medical Records (Consulting Magazine)

Before the economy took a nosedive, there was one key issue on all U.S. voters’ minds: healthcare. While both presidential candidates held similar positions on the importance of getting Americans’ healthcare records online and accessible, with Barack Obama’s win, that vision may now be on the fast track to reality. That’s why Consulting sat down with Jim Lewis, one of …

Executive Q&A: Consulting group finds right mix in Nashville (The Tennessean)

Take four former Ernst & Young executives with a thriving consulting practice in Chicago, transplant their talent to the fertile economic soil of Nashville, and you’ve created Cumberland Consulting Group. Starting in 2003, these four ex-Ernst & Young managers — Jim Lewis, J. Brian Junghans, Matthew Abrams and David Vreeland — decided they’d had enough of working for a giant …