Client: A nationally recognized rehabilitation hospital
Project: Strategic planning for prevention science center

What the client wanted
To identify costs, opportunities, outcomes and integration needs for a comprehensive center on the prevention of injury and disability.

How SHS helped
The resulting product was a strategic plan that included customized research and analytical findings, organizational design options, infrastructure requirements, funding options, a view of the market potential and a tactical implementation plan.

Client: A top-tier national health plan
Project: Evidence-based evaluation of rehabilitation effectiveness

What the client wanted
To determine the clinical effectiveness of a specific type of rehabilitation program on improving health care outcomes for patients.

How SHS helped
The result was a health care technology assessment that synthesized all available research on the topic. The report provided a thorough evaluation of the relative risks, benefits and reported outcomes of the rehabilitation program of interest.

Client: An leading academic medical center
Project: Research agenda and grant preparation for comprehensive burn care and rehabilitation

What the client wanted
To expand their prominent research portfolio in the biological and clinical aspects of acute burn wound care with longer-term cost and outcome studies.

How SHS helped
A research agenda was initiated that focused on the clinical and cost outcomes of comprehensive burn care and rehabilitation. SHS provided the grant sourcing, funding plan, grant preparation and writing, submission and post-submission follow-through in support of the client's objectives.

Client: An independent patient safety company
Project: Research direction and strategic plan for the launch of a new hospital-based product

What the client wanted
To demonstrate the effectiveness of a new patient safety product, obtain FDA approval and transfer the clinical technology into clinical practice.

How SHS helped
Using a project management approach, SHS readied the young company for launching their product. Early deliverables included streamlining FDA steps, proposal development and research direction. The next phase of development included preparation of an Investigator's Brochure, study site coordination, data analysis and technology transfer plan.