Cumberland Consulting Group is pleased to announce that Taylor Ramsey has joined the firm as a director of business development. Ramsey brings more than three years of healthcare business development experience to her new position. Prior to joining Cumberland, Ramsey served as a client executive for Surgical Information Systems, as business development director for ZHealth and previously served... Read more

Jim Lewis is Managing Partner and CEO of Cumberland Consulting Group and has 26 years of consulting experience and more than 30 years of technology implementation experience. He founded Cumberland in 2004. Since then the firm has consistently been ranked among the profession's best small firms and consistently works with the top health organizations. "During the past year, Cumberland... Read more

Cumberland Consulting Group is pleased to announce that Charlie Ditkoff has joined the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Ditkoff was previously vice chairman and head of global healthcare corporate and investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). Under his direction, BAML gained the sector’s leading market share in mergers, acquisitions and financings. Prior to joining... Read more

Cumberland Consulting Group is pleased to announce that Cathy Childs has joined the firm as director of human resources. Childs brings more than two decades of experience developing, leading and implementing strategic human resources initiatives. Areas of specialty include employment law, policy design and administration, regulatory compliance recruiting and retention, and corporate safety... Read more

By Dave Vreeland. During HIMSS 13, our company had the privilege of bringing together a select group of HIT executives from some of the nation’s leading health systems for a breakfast discussion. The food was impeccable thanks to Chef Donald Link. The topic was measuring and maximizing ROI on HIT investments. While incentive dollars offer a simple measure of ROI on the revenue side... Read more

Cumberland Consulting Group announces the promotion of Tana Hildebrand to executive consultant. She has served as managing consultant for the firm since joining last year. Hildebrand’s experience spans all phases of health information technology systems implementation including design, validation, build, testing, training, go-live support and post-live optimization. She is experienced... Read more

By Eric Snyder. The Nashville Business Journal is pleased to announce the finalists for our 2013 Best in Business Awards. Finalists were picked by a panel of judges, who considered financial data like profitability and other metrics. Winners in five categories will be announced at an awards luncheon March 26 at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel. Winners and finalists will be profiled in the March 29 edition... Read more

Cumberland Consulting Group announces the promotions of Charles Taylor to principal and Jose Gonzalez to executive consultant. Charles Taylor manages health information technology (HIT) systems implementation projects, ranging from system selections, to financial, clinical and practice management system implementations and large-scale revenue cycle transformations. Prior to joining Cumberland... Read more

By Kathleen Roney. Many hospitals implement health IT as enterprise-wide efforts because the process can be more efficient in the long run, especially for electronic health records, meaningful use and certain software upgrades. While it is quite an under-taking, the enterprise-wide approach often works best for many organizations. However, this does not mean that the adjustment to the... Read more

By Bob Herman. Hospitals and health systems are officially less than two years away from the go-live date of ICD-10. By Oct. 1, 2014, all providers must have made the transition to ICD-10. Amanda Brenegan, principal at Cumberland Consulting Group, shares six observations she's seen regarding hospitals and ICD-10 as the calendar is set to flip to 2013. 1. Most hospitals are in a... Read more