Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd. is a Chicago-based business specializing in developing customized enterprise information technology applications, decision support systems, value stream transformation (VST)/Lean Management/Process Improvement, geospatial information systems, and management consulting services to public, non-profit, and private sector clients since 1995. Pangaea leverages artificial intelligence, statistical, and geospatial analysis tools, and technologies to provide their clients with the required information and analyses to improve and enhance their decision-making processes. Pangaea is an IBM Watson business partner.

Pangaea worked with Rush University Medical Center for over 17 years in the development of decision support tools including the GUARDIAN real-time disease surveillance system and the Care in Time suite of Value Stream Transformation tools.

Pangaea’s success is based on repeat business from numerous clients including Rush University Medical Center, Verge Health Solutions, Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, Illinois Hospital Association, Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatricians, City of Chicago, The State of Illinois, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, NATO, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, U.S. Army, U.S. National Guard Bureau, Illinois National Guard, Indiana National Guard, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Qualifications

General

  • Unparalleled experience with the management of big data and advanced analysis techniques, including data normalization and validation, natural language processing, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and decision support.

  • Proven expertise in data architecture, system architecture, application services, and user interface/user experience development. Pangaea has experience providing technical support staff to large organizations including the U.S. Army.

  • Staff have an average of 15 years of professional experience.

  • Excellent staff retention with an average staff tenure of over 12 years.

  • Extensive experience in developing and executing project plans which maximize client ROI.

  • Project managers maintain PMI Project Management Professional certification.

  • Custom project management software provides clients with insight into project execution metrics.

  • Extensive experience with open data including, but not limited to census data, municipal data sets, traffic data, weather data, and other large research-based data sets.

  • A comprehensive suite of back-office technology resources including development environments for testing and staging, a continuous integration system, project management software, MSDN subscriptions, ESRI GIS licenses, and Intergraph licenses.

  • Experience with a wide variety of NoSQL and SQL data storage technologies. 

  • Development staff are experienced with both Microsoft and open-source development environments.

Healthcare

  • 17+ years of hospital experience

  • Familiarity with medical data, information systems, and business processes.

  • Extensive experience with EMR data and associated standards.

  • Strong understanding of HIPAA and data security through our work with the healthcare and military sectors.

  • The development team has completed HIPAA training.

  • Experience with HIE initiatives has provided experience in using APIs with multiple EMR systems.

  • Extensive experience in processing HL7 messages.

  • Developed software certified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT under meaningful use.

  • Development staff are current with new technologies and trends and are able to evaluate their applicability to hospital requirements.

VST/Lean Management

  • Working with providers and other user groups to further define standard workflows

  • Working with providers and other user groups to apply the lessons learned from other engagements to defining standard workflows at new sites

  • Staff to demand analyses

  • Evaluating current workflows as they relate to preferred workflows and identifying opportunities for our visual management tools to be modified or extended to support closing these gaps

  • Deployment of lean management tools including Andon screen, Flow Conductor, Pitchboard, Mobile Apps, etc.

  • Provide VST/lean management consulting services

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