Earlier this year, we spent a few days focused on our company (a rare event; we spend nearly all the rest of the year focused on our clients) and one thing we strongly felt we were good at was ensuring project timelines. On the face of it, timelines seem like project management issues, but they’re not. It’s actually a combination of a quality design process, easy-to-deploy technology, a dedicated team, and the ability to apply internal pressure as necessary within a healthcare organization. Complicated? It can be.

But I walked away from that meeting wondering how good.

We did a little math on our own projects and, it turns out, from start to launch, our average project takes 4.5 months.

It’s a number so low, I’ve been laughed at by potential clients who didn’t think it would work in their organization. (Note I used the term potential; we avoid poorly run hospitals as much as hospitals want to avoid a poorly run vendor.)

Someone had the very bright idea to go back over projects that went some way besides MedTouch — other healthcare web vendors, local firms, or internal resources — and call our contacts there to find out how it went. As part of our survey, we asked if they’d launched their site and how long it took.

The answer?

8 months was the best estimate; only one had actually launched. It took that client 8 months exactly.

In other words, clients who picked MedTouch reduced the time it took for the whole organization to deliver the project by 3.5 months.

I call that exceptional. And now we can show the math to prove it.