FCP is excited to promote James Vogeler to the role of Cerner Practice Director.  James combines 25 years of healthcare experience with 15 years of Cerner experience, project management and consulting leadership roles.  James history with major IDN’s, Cerner, and prominent consulting organizations creates an ideal mix to serve our growing Cerner client base while ensuring our resources have the necessary support to succeed in their engagements and outside the workplace.

As a services partner of Boston Software Systems, FCP has helped implement software that allows healthcare facilities of all sizes to create more efficient processes, automate common tasks, speed completion of conversion and migration projects and integrate new applications, systems and devices quickly and easily.

FCP’s Epic and Cerner HIS clients are taking advantage of Boston Workstation to drastically reduce the effort and hours associated with testing set up and scripting processes.  By automating the most common testing scenarios along with scripting the registration of standard patient types, FCP is changing timelines and testing accuracy in major implementation efforts.

Please contact us for more information on how we can help your organization, regardless of the HIS system you are implementing.

Join the FCP team in booth #757 at HIMSS Atlanta this year. We’ll be right next to the Interoperability Showcase. Meet the FCP team of developers and practice leaders for a demonstration of our Total Healthcare Integration Solution and the solutions we are providing hospitals in preparation of HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 changes.

With the implementation dates for ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 standards approaching, it is not too early to begin planning for these challenging transitions. A well-planned and managed implementation will help ensure a successful transition with minimal disruption to critical business processes. First Choice Professionals offers our clients support and expertise throughout this conversion utilizing our staff of Revenue Cycle, Integration, Application and Process Professionals. FCP works with health care providers and payers to

• Develop a successful migration roadmap
• Coordinate and manage vendor interactions
• Define, manage and implement integration modifications and application changes
• Accomplish successful testing and validation

FCP’s engagement approach is strengthened by our methodologies and superior client attentiveness. We diligently match our consultants experience with the engagements that are poised to take advantage of their background as well as personality.
Our people are located throughout the US, often times allowing our clients to take advantage of regional resources for smaller targeted engagements while lowering any expenses related to consultant travel. In addition, FCP is capable of leveraging the combined experience of our three business units (Integration, Technology, and Applications) to meet large scale deliverables with deep resource needs.
If you’d like to discuss your upcoming ICD-10 and/or HIPAA 5010 project with us, give us a call. We’re here to help.

Attention MEDITECH, MedSeries4, HL7, and Boston WorkStation experts!

FCP has openings for healthcare IT specialists in the above areas and we are interested in speaking with you today. Please contact us or send us your resume at careers@fcp.com. View our career opportunity page to learn more about the positions and our employment options.

Scottsdale, AZ, April 3, 2009 - First Choice Professionals, LLC., today announced the release of its easy to implement industrial power Total Health Integration Solution (THIS). FCP’s experience in the highly specialized healthcare integration field has joined forces with TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX), a recognized world leader in message brokering, SOA integration, and complex event processing. The partnership of FCP and TIBCO has produced a comprehensive value solution that will replace the cumbersome and cost intensive interface and integration engines currently employed by hospitals throughout the world.

THIS is the genesis of a proven message broker that supports transactional HL7 messaging while enabling event driven processing in addition to supporting business and clinical analytics. The solution takes advantage of a healthcare focused architecture coupled with the preeminent enterprise service bus that will produce unmatched scalability and reliability to healthcare organizations.

Features of the THIS integration implementation methodology are patent pending and encapsulate over twelve years of development. Workflow analysis and testing are at the core of an approach involving FCP’s expert analysts, developers, and customer end users. The best practices gained from years of healthcare integration leadership merged with TICBO’s messaging platform that has already been deployed in 47 of the world’s top 100 companies will shift integration in healthcare from a transaction based engine to an enabler of logic predictive events, standards based medicine, and workflow automation. In addition, the platform supports SOA functionality addressing future government healthcare standards now.

FCP’s President Paul White said, “THIS is a solution that couples an intelligent information exchange broker and FCP’s healthcare integration methodology. It will bridge the integration gap between workflow and technology.”

FCP’s Director of Partner Relations, Howard Massingill said, “TIBCO’s infrastructure software gives customers the ability to constantly innovate by connecting applications and data in a service-oriented architecture, streamlining activities through business process management, and giving people the information and intelligence tools they need to make faster and smarter decisions.”

About FCP
First Choice Professionals, LLC., is a nationally recognized and privately owned Healthcare IT company that specializes in healthcare application integration, systems implementation and technology services. Our prestigious client base includes academic, children’s, and multi-entity organizations throughout the US. More information can be accessed at http://www.fcp.com.

About TIBCO
TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX) provides enterprise software that helps companies achieve service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) success. With over 3,000 customers, TIBCO has given leading organizations around the world better awareness and agility – what TIBCO calls The Power of Now®. To learn more, contact TIBCO at +1 650-846-1000 or on the Web at www.tibco.com.

TIBCO’s Message Brokering, SOA integration, and Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Technologies Unified in Rx for Rapidly Changing Industry.

Scottsdale, AZ, March 30th - First Choice Professionals, LLC., today announced a partnership with TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX), to provide healthcare organizations with advanced technology and specialized services in a unified solution. FCP’s renowned healthcare integration group will combine talents with TIBCO, a recognized world leader in message brokering, SOA integration, and complex event processing. The partnership of FCP and TIBCO will produce comprehensive value to both federal and commercial healthcare providers and payor organizations.

TIBCO’s advanced brokering platform has already been deployed in 47 of the world’s top 100 companies and now it will be merged with proven methodologies that FCP has gained from years of healthcare integration leadership. Customers will see integration in healthcare shift from a transaction-based engine to an enabler of logic predictive events, standards-based medicine and workflow automation. The unified solution is backed by FCP’s healthcare integration group, which brings a highly specialized team of integration engineers, architects, and analysts that have deep experience implementing and supporting the most advanced, efficient, and reliable integration solutions in healthcare.

FCP’s President Paul White said, “FCP is determined to find more efficient, intelligent, and accurate integration approaches to healthcare information exchange that reduces cost of ownership at the same time. Marrying FCP’s intellectual depth in this area with TIBCO’s technological leadership will facilitate that goal for our clients.”

“Combining TIBCO technologies in this uniform solution provides major healthcare customers with the intelligence tools they need to make faster and smarter decisions streamline activities, drive continuous improvement and enable innovation,” noted Marc Odenweller, vice president of worldwide channels and alliances at TIBCO. “FCP’s experience in healthcare integration best practices and their understanding of where the technology can continue the advancement of better outcomes at reduced expense will create abundant benefits for the industry.”

About FCP
First Choice Professionals, LLC., is a nationally recognized and privately owned Healthcare IT organization that specializes in healthcare application integration, systems implementation and technology solutions. FCP’s prestigious client base includes academic, children’s, multi-entity, and military health organizations throughout the US. More information can be accessed at http://www.fcp.com.

About TIBCO
TIBCO’s technology digitized Wall Street in the ’80s with event-driven “Information Bus” software, which helped make real-time business a strategic differentiator in the ’90s. Today, TIBCO’s infrastructure software gives customers the ability to constantly innovate by connecting applications and data in a service-oriented architecture, streamlining activities through business process management, and giving people the information and intelligence tools they need to make faster and smarter decisions, what we call The Power of Now®. TIBCO serves more than 3,000 customers around the world with offices in more than 20 countries and an ecosystem of over 200 partners. Learn more at www.tibco.com.

Scottsdale, AZ - First Choice Professionals announced the addition of Howard Massingill to its expanding Integration Services business unit. Howard will join FCP as the Director Partner Relations.

Howard brings twenty-seven years of Healthcare IT and Integration leadership experience to FCP. Prior to joining FCP, Howard was responsible for developing healthcare solutions for MidTech Partners.  Prior to that responsibility, Howard spent 22 years in healthcare IT in working in both Provider and vendor roles.

Howard said “I’m excited to assume a leadership role in FCP’s integration practice while having an impact on the direction and the service of the company’s growing traditional and vendor integration practices. This is a strong, dynamic organization that is poised for great achievements in the near term, and I look forward to being part of FCP’s success.”

In commenting on the announcement, FCP’s President, Paul White noted that
“Howard’s experience will be a great asset to FCP’s clients, its partners, and the FCP management team, particularly given his achievements in developing and establishing dynamic long trusted relationships with key healthcare executives and leading domestic and international integration organizations.  Howard is highly respected by everyone that has been associated with him during his extensive healthcare career.”

‘FCP’s Integration Practice expected to see continued growth in 2009 ’
FCP, well known for healthcare integration expertise, will engage Howard’s experience to expand the company’s Vendor Integration Group while maintaining and expanding partnerships that are essential to offering our clients optimum solutions.  Howard’s understanding of the technical, operational, and financial benefits of healthcare integration in addition to his background as a CIO brings our clients and partners deeper perspective on how to leverage existing investments on IT through integration.

Glenn Sandstrom, FCP’s Director of Integration notes, “Howard’s experience as a CIO, a vendor executive, and an integration services leader is invaluable to giving our clients and partners a full perspective on the advantages of efficient and accurate information exchange. When our clients, partners, and future customers want to understand how to positively impact clinical and financial performance through technology and integration, FCP will provide a robust solution.”

Howard can be reached via e-mail hmassingill@fcp.com or  540-977-1933.

First Choice Professionals, LLC (FCP) today announced that the Navy’s Seaport-e contracting office has approved FCP to participate as a subcontractor on the Seaport-e contract vehicle, under a Teaming Agreement with FreeLinc, to provide healthcare consulting services to the US Department of Defense. Under the Teaming Agreement FCP will focus its efforts on the Military Health System (MHS). FCP will extend to the DoD MHS its industry leading capabilities in:

• Legacy system support and implementation
• Web based application development and support
• System Integration services
• Customer Support Services

FCP, a well-known provider of healthcare consulting services, will augment the communication engineering services provided by FreeLinc. FCP has a history of providing value-based services to its growing list of prestigious commercial healthcare providers and will now extend those services to the DoD MHS.

Seaport-e is the Navy’s vehicle of choice for services procurement. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract enables FreeLinc, now complimented by FCP, to compete for service requirements solicited by Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, Military Sealift Command, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Strategic Systems Programs, Office of Naval Research, Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the United States Marine Corps, in the Southwest and National Capital Zones.

Randy Bailey, company CEO explained, “We have great business relationship with FreeLinc and we are pleased to formalize this partnership through teaming on the Seaport-e vehicle. As FreeLinc broadens its reach into military markets, we are excited to have the opportunity to support them with our expertise and breadth of experience.”

Phoenix, AZ, Feb 22, 2008 – First Choice Professionals, LLC., today announced the addition of Mark Scherling to its expanding Applications Services business unit. Mark will join FCP as Program Management Office and Siemens Practice Director.

Mark brings thirteen years of Healthcare IT thought leadership experience to FCP. Prior to joining FCP, Mark was responsible for the Management of systems support at Catholic Healthcare West. Prior to that responsibility, Mark spent 7 years in healthcare IT consultative roles as a Program Manager, implementation Director and as a clinical and financial systems analyst – working with numerous health care organizations across the US.

Mark said “I’m excited to assume the role of PMO and Siemens Practice Director for FCP. This is a strong, dynamic Company that is poised for great achievements in the near term, and I look forward to being part of FCP’s success.”

In commenting on the announcement, FCP’s CEO, Randy Bailey noted that
“Mark’s experience will be a great asset to FCP’s clients, its partners, and the FCP management team, particularly given his achievements in developing and establishing dynamic long trusted relationships with key healthcare executives and accounts across the United States. Mark is highly respected by everyone that has been associated with him during his extensive healthcare career. We are thrilled”.

‘FCP’s Siemens and PMO Practice see continued growth in 2008 ’
FCP, well known for healthcare integration expertise, will engage Mark’s experience to expand the company’s rapidly growing PMO services and Siemens consulting group. Mark brings clarity to the healthcare technology visions of CEOs, COOs, CFOs, and CIOs while understanding the success ingredients of managing high priority projects and implementations.

Brian Hill, FCP’s Director of Applications notes, “Mark’s ability to leverage proven health IT PMO methodologies, along with his innovative thinking will be a powerful asset to our clients when united with our applications consulting base. When our clients and future customers want to understand how to positively impact clinical and financial performance through technology and experienced program management, FCP will provide a robust solution.”

Mark can be reached via e-mail mscherling@fcp.com or (602)999-2210.