There are few ideas around which there is greater consensus than the notion that today's healthcare organizations need help in a wide range of areas:

• Compliance with federal and state laws and regulations
• Accreditation (e.g., URAC, NCQA, JCAHO)
• Quality improvement
• Patient safety
• Consumer privacy and security (including HIPAA)
• Employee training and development
• Liability insurance
• Litigation
• Integrating traditional medicine with complementary and alternative medicine

Integral Healthcare Solutions is a group of veteran healthcare consultants dedicated to the notion that a few people can make a difference. We work with healthcare organizations from all sectors -- insurers, managed care organizations, providers, and accreditation bodies -- to tackle some of the tougher problems they face. We help policymakers sort through complicated issues by providing expert research and analysis.

We do this through a model that stresses the use of experienced professionals, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and personalized service.

Most important, though, is our understanding that today's healthcare issues require integral solutions. By this we mean that we can serve our clients better by looking not only at the surface symptoms, but by tackling the subsurface causes.

Our interdisciplinary, integral approach stresses solutions that address such issues as employee motivation, corporate culture, organizational systems, as well as individual behavior.