The consultants have spoken. And this, our eighth annual Best Firms to Work For list, is the result. Here, we reveal the very best consulting firms to work for, according to you, the consultants who actually work for them. For an eight-week period in May and June, we asked you to tell us all about your firm and what it's like to work there. We asked for your feedback about your consultancy in... Read more

Since launching Cumberland Consulting LLC in 2004 with only six employees, James Lewis has grown the company to 50 employees located in 14 states. Last month, Cumberland was named a 2008 Best Small Firm to Work For by Consulting magazine. What are the keys to a successful business model? It’s a combination of understanding your marketplace, the needs of your clients and establishing an... Read more

By GETAHN WARD - Staff Writer. Cumberland Consulting Group LLC, the Nashville-based provider of technology consulting services for the health-care industry, said that it was named a 2008 Best Small Firm to Work For by Consulting magazine. Cumberland was recognized for measuring its employees' work/life balance, compensation, career development, leadership and firm culture.   Copyright... Read more

By G. CHAMBERS WILLIAMS III.  A wide variety of businesses, including some that are Web-oriented, have been named winners of the 2008 Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce's Future 50 awards. The awards, now in their 17th year, are part of a chamber program designed to recognize the 50 fastest growing privately held companies in the Nashville area. The Tennessean is among sponsors of the... Read more

by Zach Brennan, iHealthBeat Staff Writer. Community-based health centers, which offer medical services to low-income, uninsured and chronically ill populations, can be critical for underserved areas with limited access to primary care. Many of the centers do not have the funds to adopt IT and electronic health record systems, which could create more benefits for their patients. The... Read more

 By JANELL ROSS - Staff Writer.  Creating e-mail marketing campaigns. Connecting sitters with customers who need caregivers for children or seniors. Developing Web sites that connect fans with their favorite artists. Companies that provide these services — Nashville-based Emma Inc., Brentwood-based Sitters Etc. Inc. and echomusic LLC in Nashville — are among the... Read more

District government recently made a remarkable $5 million investment in DCPCA’s Medical Homes DC (MHDC) project to develop a comprehensive Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system for community health centers. Ten centers are slated to participate in the project, and will learn from the experiences of six brave “early adopters” – including Mary’s Center for Maternal... Read more

On July 17, Middle Tennessee Medical Center took a step onto the cutting edge of patient monitoring with the rollout of a system that enables it to find anyone and anything on the medical campus nearly instantly. The Saint Thomas Health System-owned hospital launched its "Win Project," an RFID-based network that will be used to monitor patients, staff, medication, equipment and... Read more

James Lewis is managing partner of Cumberland Consulting Group, a Franklin-based company that provides information technology consulting. Only two years in operation, the company has seen its revenues increase from about $2 million in 2004 to approximately $4 million in 2005. Lewis, 49, says CCG hopes to total about $7 million in revenue for 2006. Cumberland Consulting Group has four partners... Read more

By TODD PACK - Staff Writer.  Earl Swensson Associates did a healthy business designing hospitals in 2005. It expects an even better 2006. One of Nashville's largest architectural firms, Swensson's health-care practice could see a 10% to 15% increase in volume in the year ahead, said Todd Robinson, a senior designer and principal in the firm. "We had a pretty good outlook (for 2006... Read more