Expert consultancy supporting meaningful strategies for digital investment and change
We offer 8 key strategic services:
Digital Strategy
Integrated digital strategies and roadmaps, aligned with national policy, mapped to local objectives and population needs, and tracking market innovations to enable future-proof planning
Business Cases & Funding
Business cases based on the Five Case Model, developed collaboratively through strong stakeholder engagement and based on our expert market knowledge, benefits data, practical funding strategies and considerable implementation experience
Digital Maturity
Global standards applied to digital maturity modelling through our HIMSS Digital Health Partnership, assessing continuity of care, service delivery, infrastructure, data and analytics capabilities, and building the business change approach and plan for digital transformation
Integrated Care
Baselining continuity of care across regional and local partners, from a technical, clinical and citizen perspective, to underpin transformational planning that drives citizen-centred care pathway improvement, data integration, and population health management
Infrastructure
Evaluation and transformation of digital capabilities focussed on technical architecture, information exchange and governance, standards, security, hosting, applications, clinical and business software
Procurement
Unbiased support for specification, selection and procurement of digital health systems, services and infrastructure – procurement management, documentation, best value criteria, demos, site visits and support with evaluation, negotiation and contract.
Partner & Vendor Support
Expert support for private, third sector and commercial partners for market intelligence, strategy, design, change management and implementation – using our considerable healthcare experience and relationships to enhance partner and vendor programmes
Service & Product Design & Development
In-depth specialist knowledge and project management expertise for specification, requirements definition and design of service and product propositions, including patient-facing digital services
We work with national, regional, and local health and care organisations, to understand current challenges, strategic transformation drivers and future digital needs.
We leverage our experience of working with over 150 healthcare organisations on digital change programmes to develop innovative, outcome-focused solutions that cut through complexity and build the business change approach, benefits plan and roadmap for digital transformation.
Our industry-leading consulting teams provide impartial evidence to support decision making. They focus on understanding what clients want to achieve, developing bespoke strategies and solutions that meet organisational needs.
Although we are vendor neutral, we work closely with vendors and commercial partners to understand their products and support their programmes, bringing valuable knowledge back to our clients.
Ideal acts as a trusted partner, complementing organisational capabilities and capacities, sharing knowledge and using in-depth subject matter expertise and understanding of lessons learnt to mitigate risk.
We are proud to be a HIMSS Digital Health Technology Partner, applying global standards to digital maturity modelling, assessing continuity of care, service delivery, infrastructure, data and analytics capabilities.