EthosPartners Healthcare Management Group, Inc. (EthosPartners) is a national healthcare consulting group. The company specializes in physician and hospital alignment, physician practice operations management, and physician revenue cycle management. EthosPartners’ physician expertise will now be combined with Navigant’s existing healthcare practice. This move will significantly enhance and widen the company’s solutions base.

“We are very pleased to make an additional investment in one of our key strategic growth areas following earlier 2010 investment success in our Energy, Disputes and Economics practices. In order to compete in today’s rapidly changing market, health systems are exploring strategies for adding physicians as their partners in care delivery. The need to integrate and manage these physician groups to prepare for the demands of health reform while delivering high quality care is rapidly accelerating. The combination of our existing healthcare team with EthosPartners will position us to assist clients in addressing the impacts of this change.” said William M. Goodyear, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Navigant.

Since EthosPartners’ is rich in expertise related to areas such as practice management, revenue cycle management, business intelligence and strategic consulting services, Navigant will tremendously gain from this acquisition. EthosPartners’ will nicely complement to Navigant’s healthcare capability. The EthosPartners team comprises of 180 billable professionals, 85 of these employees are a part of the revenue cycle outsourcing business (based in South Dakota). 8 professionals will be joining Navigant as Managing Directors while others will take practice leadership roles, as per reports.

Dave Zito, Managing Director and Navigant Healthcare Practice Leader commended: “Hospitals, health systems and physician practices need to prepare for lower reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers, while constructing a delivery capability that can accept innovative payment techniques tied to better quality outcomes. By joining forces with EthosPartners we are creating a one-of-a-kind consulting group that can help clients survive in today’s competitive healthcare market. The passage of healthcare reform has thrust our clinical integration practice into the spotlight and with our combined organizations we are better positioned to help transform health systems into Accountable Care Organizations.”

“Uniting EthosPartners’ physician practice expertise with Navigant’s healthcare solutions makes us the only one to combine hospital – physician strategy and integration expertise with ‘roll up the sleeves’ practice management and operational execution that can achieve implementable performance improvement targets.” Alex Hunter, President and Chief Executive Officer of EthosPartners said. “This combination of resources and capabilities will help healthcare providers prepare their organizations to succeed in the rapidly changing healthcare market.” he added.

According to the agreement, Navigant has paid a total of $37 million, $28 million is in cash, $2 million in restricted Navigant stock and $7 million of deferred cash payments. Moreover, depending on the future performance of the business, EthosPartners can earn up to $8 million of additional payments.

Ever wonder what type of server is in the rack at the data center used by your company? How about server brand trends around the country? Look no further: The four most popular brands of servers, in descending order, are Hewlett Packard, Dell, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.

Shifting Brand Loyalty

As data center development has changed over the past couple of decades, brand loyalty has also shifted. Up until recently, IBM was the number one IT vendor in the world, unmatched by any other brand in terms of sales numbers or revenue. However, just like everything in the IT world, things are changing.

HP has recently surpassed IBM in popularity. Now focused on the data center market, HP is getting ready to meet the increased demand that goes with producing data center servers. HP’s popularity increase seems to know no bounds. In fact, some recent surveys show that over 40% of IT professionals prefer HP servers to any other brand.

About Servers

A server is the hub of a network, and it is a data center’s responsibility to have a high quality server in order to maintain its business. Rather than processing power, purchasers of servers focus RAM and hard drive speed to handle the network traffic. Energy efficiency is also becoming a major concern in purchasing decisions.

What Makes a Good Server?

So what influences the server buying decisions of data center professionals? Choice of a server depends on many factors, including availability and price, but most IT professional find these qualities to be extremely important:

- Quality: IT professionals report that a good server has high quality parts, a major factor in server reliability. A server is arguably the most important part of a data center infrastructure, and data center business is very closely linked to reliability and a high level of availability. Having a server with high quality parts is of the utmost importance.

- Support: Similarly, IT professionals require their servers to have an excellent support team. If the server does go down for some reason, every moment matters in trying to repair it. Having a good support team on your side can be the difference between hours of server downtime and days or weeks of lost usage and revenue.

- Performance: Server performance is another important factor considered by IT professionals when buying servers for a data center. Often, IT professionals avoid server brands that have caused past problems for their data center. Negative reviews from other professionals also have an impact on performance-based buying decisions.

- Customization: Another important factor in choosing a server for a data center is the ability to customize the equipment to fit individual needs. Standard specifications may not be appropriate for all applications.

Future of Data Center Servers

With the current focus on environmental responsibility, data centers are making every attempt to go green. The amount of power used by a server may become more of a factor in purchasing decisions as energy costs rise. Server efficiency may soon be one of the top qualities IT professional prize in their server purchasing decisions.

In today’s difficult economy, server power usage is likely to become a major issue. Many companies are struggling to shore up the bottom line, and more efficient servers help them reduce their operating budget. In addition, new environmental laws are likely to make the “greenness” of a server one of the main purchasing considerations.

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