Case Study: a healthcare provider achieves millions in savings with Point B

Radical Simplification Reaches Healthcare

A large healthcare provider engaged Point B's Project Leadership Services to help it consolidate seven autonomous regional operations into a single, centralized organization. This strategic move presented a major opportunity to reduce costs, particularly within its Information Services (IS) division. The need to transition to a single, enterprise-wide EHR platform added urgency to the challenge of radically simplifying its sprawling application portfolio.

Point B developed and implemented a strategy to inventory and simplify the portfolio, which contained 2,400 redundant or outdated applications. They established a new governance structure and created a sunsetting toolkit to manage the transition. The results were significant; the client achieved 90% of its targeted $5 million savings for the year by the second quarter and was on track to exceed that goal by year's end. Point B's work is expected to save the client over $16 million from application sunsetting in the following three years, with an additional $7-14 million in savings from other consolidations.