Purdue HealthTAP

What Purdue HealthTAP does

Purdue HealthTAP is the healthcare process improvement and training unit of Purdue University's Technical Assistance Program (TAP), headquartered in West Lafayette, Indiana and tracing its lineage to the 2005 establishment of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE). The unit delivers Lean methodology consulting, professional certification programs (Green/Yellow/Black Belt plus FMEA), 90-minute training modules (Change Management, Human-Centered Design, Psychological Safety, Team Dynamics, Process Improvement), and facilitated technical events (Value Stream Analysis, Rapid Improvement Events, Service Blueprinting, Appreciative Inquiry, FMEA, User Research/Gemba Assessment) to hospitals, clinics, healthcare associations, faith-based organizations, and universities.

The business model blends three revenue streams: fee-based consulting contracts with healthcare organizations, grant-funded programs (notably the $34.8M CDC-funded I-HOPE health equity initiative with $10.4M allocated to Purdue, and the ~$1M HRSA-funded CORE-ECI opioid response consortium), and no-cost programs targeting underserved communities. Service delivery is hybrid (on-site, virtual, in-person) and engagements are scoped through consultative intake conversations. Customer concentration centers on Indiana-based acute care hospitals and outpatient practices, supplemented by statewide coalitions under the I-HOPE program covering approximately 100 partner organizations and the CORE-ECI multi-sectoral consortium in Blackford and Jay Counties.

HealthTAP operates with a lean team of six employees under Purdue's governance, with the TAP Executive Director (Mat Trampski) overseeing HealthTAP alongside cyberTAP and Purdue MEP. Regina Pilotte serves as Interim HealthTAP Director, and former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams joined as Executive Director of Health Equity Initiatives in 2021, anchoring the unit's public health equity strategy. The organization has no independent ownership, no external funding rounds, and no disclosed revenue figure.

Name

Purdue HealthTAP

Legal name

Purdue University Technical Assistance Program

Website

https://health.tap.purdue.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Purdue HealthTAP is the healthcare process improvement and training unit of Purdue University's Technical Assistance Program, delivering Lean methodology consulting, certifications, and grant-funded specialty programs (including I-HOPE and CORE-ECI) to Indiana hospitals, clinics, and community coalitions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Process Improvement Consulting

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Systems Strengthening & Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Partnerships (HLAJAOAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community Health, Health Promotion & Behavior Change (SBCC) (BPADAIAL)

Keywords

• Lean process improvement
• Healthcare consulting
• Lean certification training
• Value stream analysis
• Healthcare quality improvement

Headquarters

HQ city

West Lafayette

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Fee-based Contracts: HealthTAP partners with healthcare professionals through fee-based contracts for process improvement consulting, training, and technical services. These are direct engagements with healthcare organizations for sustained improvement support.
2. Grant-funded Programs: HealthTAP leads and supports grant-funded programs designed to address specific healthcare challenges and community needs. Examples include the I-HOPE initiative ($34.8M CDC grant) and CORE-ECI opioid response program.
3. No-cost Programs: HealthTAP offers no-cost programs to expand access to healthcare improvement resources, particularly for underserved communities and populations facing health disparities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

HealthTAP is the healthcare-focused unit of Purdue University's Technical Assistance Program that partners with healthcare organizations to apply Lean methodologies and process improvement approaches. The organization delivers Lean coaching, multi-tier certifications (Green, Yellow, and Black Belt), 90-minute training modules, and facilitated technical events such as Value Stream Analysis, Rapid Improvement Events, Service Blueprinting, and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis. It also leads grant-funded specialty programs (I-HOPE, CORE-ECI, QPHI) targeting health equity, opioid response, and chronic disease management.

Product overview

Purdue HealthTAP is a healthcare process improvement and training unit of Purdue University's Technical Assistance Program. The organization offers a portfolio of interconnected services including Process Improvement for Healthcare (Lean Green/Yellow/Black Belt training and Process Prep), Certifications and Training (professional certifications and 90-minute training modules), and Technical Solutions (facilitated events including Appreciative Inquiry, FMEA, Rapid Improvement Events, Service Blueprinting, Value Stream Analysis). HealthTAP also leads specialty programs such as the Quality Processes for Health Improvement initiative, the Indiana Health Opportunities for People Everywhere (I-HOPE) program, and the Consortium for Opioids Response Engagement-East Central Indiana (CORE-ECI). These services work together to help healthcare organizations improve quality, reduce costs, and build internal continuous improvement capability through coaching, training, and facilitated improvement projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Process Improvement for Healthcare Lean-focused coaching and training service that helps healthcare organizations improve quality, reduce costs, and build internal continuous improvement capability through assessment, coaching, facilitation, and improvement projects.
• Lean Green Belt Training Two-day training course equipping participants with Lean methodologies knowledge and skills to facilitate daily continuous improvement at the point of service, enabling teams to make small meaningful adjustments while sustaining gains.
• Lean Yellow Belt Training Four-day classroom-based course preparing participants to plan and facilitate Kaizen and Rapid Improvement Events from start to finish using HealthTAP's RIE A3 problem-solving process.
• Lean Black Belt Training Four-day advanced flipped classroom format that prepares experienced practitioners to lead value stream analysis and facilitate complex improvement efforts including Kanban, lean service cells, and VSA A3 problem-solving.
• Process Preparation (2P) Process Preparation service that helps teams design or redesign processes when the future state is unclear, changing, or high-impact, used for new services, space design, relocations, equipment layout, and chronic performance issues.
• Healthcare-Focused 90-Minute Training Modules Suite of 90-minute training modules covering Change Management, Process Improvement, Human-Centered Design, Psychological Safety, and Team Dynamics, designed to build improvement skills, enhance teamwork, and advance quality and operational performance.
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Certification Four-day training course certifying learners to use FMEA to identify and prevent potential process/service failure modes including risks to patients and staff, and mitigate risks through process redesign.
• Technical Solutions Purdue-backed expert assistance providing customized support for healthcare organizations to address complex operational, strategy, and process challenges through data workflows, reporting processes, and decision-making tools.
• Value Stream Analysis (VSA) Service Facilitated event that maps the entire flow of value resulting in a visual guide of all elements necessary to deliver a product or service, enabling organizations to maximize value created using diverse perspectives for strategic implementations.
• Rapid Improvement Event (RIE) Service Event designed to analyze and improve a targeted issue or process through current state assessment, optimized future state workflow design, and Lean Daily Improvement to track metrics for sustained change.
• Service Blueprinting Visual mapping technique used to design and improve service processes by focusing on the user journey and breaking down operations and steps in delivering a service end to end.
• Appreciative Inquiry Strength-based approach to identifying organizational culture that emphasizes what is working well to inspire and mobilize individuals to co-create and implement positive-change initiatives.
• Asset-Based Strategy Development Facilitated experience to identify and utilize individual, organizational, and/or community assets as resources to collaboratively develop strategies, including interviews, customized written report, and presentation on findings.
• User Research / Gemba Assessment Customized engagement to discover customer pain points, needs and wants using methods such as empathy interviews, focus groups, observations/contextual inquiry, or card sorting, with deliverables including insights reports, Personas, and Journey Maps.
• Quality Processes for Health Improvement (QPHI) Multi-year initiative helping Marion General Hospital redesign chronic heart failure care using Lean and improvement methods to enhance patient outcomes, access, and care coordination through Value Stream Analysis and Rapid Improvement Events.
• Indiana Health Opportunities for People Everywhere (I-HOPE) Two-year initiative in which Purdue collaborates with statewide partners to tackle obstacles preventing people from living healthy lives, aiming to reduce systemic health and social inequities through addressing barriers to care.
• Consortium for Opioids Response Engagement - East Central Indiana (CORE-ECI) Multi-year program guiding a multi-sectoral consortium in forming a seamless system of evidence-based substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery services for Blackford and Jay Counties in Indiana.

Quantifiable outcome

• Multi-year initiative aims to increase heart failure patients' quality of life through better healthcare engagement and access
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and major.

• Indiana Department of Health (IDOH)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 November 2021HealthTAP partners with Indiana Department of Health on the Indiana Healthy Opportunities for People Everywhere (I-HOPE) initiative. Through a $34.8 million CDC grant to IDOH, Purdue was awarded $10.4 million to administer engagement and communication efforts in counties most vulnerable to pandemics. The partnership addresses health disparities and social inequities across Indiana.
• Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRCHE at Purdue University serves as the national nucleus for driving high-impact improvement in healthcare delivery. HealthTAP operates as a program under RCHE, which was established by the Regenstrief Foundation in 2005. RCHE leads multidisciplinary studies examining health and well-being, emphasizing practical solutions delivered directly to communities.
• Marion General HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-year Quality Processes for Health Improvement (QPHI) partnership with Marion General Hospital in Marion, Indiana. The initiative aims to re-engineer chronic disease management for heart failure patients, improve patient outcomes, access, and care coordination using lean and improvement methods.
• Indiana University HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIU Health serves as clinical lead for the CORE-ECI consortium, partnering with HealthTAP to address opioid response in east-central Indiana communities. IU Health Blackford Hospital and IU Health Jay Hospital provide clinical services as part of the multi-sectoral consortium addressing substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery.
• Jay County Drug Prevention Coalition Inc.majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNonprofit organization providing drug prevention education, peer recovery coaching, and other services to Jay and surrounding counties. Part of the CORE-ECI consortium addressing opioid use response in east-central Indiana.
• Grant Blackford Mental HealthmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides behavioral health and substance use disorder services to adults and minors diagnosed with serious mental illness and/or emotional disturbance. Part of the CORE-ECI consortium addressing opioid response in Blackford and Jay Counties.
• Blackford County Community CorrectionsmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides community-based alternatives to incarceration through intensive supervision using evidence-based practices. Part of the CORE-ECI consortium addressing substance use disorder response in east-central Indiana.
• A Better Life-Brianna's Hope Inc.majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipant-driven support and recovery movement for those battling substance abuse that began following the heroin-related death of a Blackford County woman. Part of the CORE-ECI consortium providing peer recovery support.
• Purdue ExtensioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPurdue Extension is involved in evaluating the impact of social determinants of health on substance use disorder response as part of the CORE-ECI consortium. Extension services also contribute to I-HOPE initiatives including community health improvement planning.
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCDC provided a $34.8 million grant to Indiana Department of Health for the I-HOPE initiative to reduce systemic health and social inequities, with emphasis on health disparities experienced by ethnic and minority groups and rural communities.
• Indiana University Center for Rural EngagementmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIU Center for Rural Engagement partners on I-HOPE initiatives including Food as Medicine Models for Rural Southern Indiana, interventions to reduce smoking during pregnancy in rural areas, and addressing racial disparities in health.
• Dr. Jerome AdamscoreOthersFormer U.S. Surgeon General and Indiana State Health Commissioner joined Purdue as Presidential Fellow and Executive Director of Health Equity Initiatives, RCHE faculty member, professor of practice in Pharmacy Practice and Public Health departments. Provides leadership for health equity initiatives including I-HOPE.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Rona Consulting Group: Rona Consulting Group provides Lean transformation and operational improvement services to healthcare organizations, closely aligned with HealthTAP's process improvement methodology and hospital client focus.
• Virginia Mason Institute: Virginia Mason Institute provides Lean methodology training, certification, and consulting to healthcare organizations worldwide, making it a directly comparable peer in healthcare process improvement education and transformation services.
• Catalysis: Catalysis is a healthcare-focused Lean education and transformation organization that directly competes with HealthTAP, offering Lean training, certifications, and consulting to hospitals and health systems with similar process improvement methodology focus.
• University of Michigan Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEAR): University of Michigan's CHEAR is an academic center offering healthcare process improvement research and consulting, structurally and functionally similar to HealthTAP's Regenstrief Center-based model of university-affiliated healthcare improvement work.

Broad incumbents

• Kaufman Hall: Kaufman Hall is an established healthcare consulting firm offering performance improvement, strategic planning, and financial advisory services to hospitals and health systems, overlapping with HealthTAP's operational improvement and process consulting work.
• Vizient: Vizient is a large healthcare performance improvement company providing consulting, analytics, and advisory services to hospitals and health systems, with overlapping capabilities in operational performance and quality improvement consulting.
• Simpler Consulting (IBM): Simpler Consulting, now part of IBM Watson Health, is a Lean transformation consultancy serving hospitals and health systems, directly comparable in methodology (Lean) and customer base (healthcare organizations seeking process improvement).
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI): IHI is a larger, established leader in healthcare quality improvement that offers training, certification, and improvement programs across a broader scope of methodologies beyond Lean, including patient safety and quality frameworks similar to HealthTAP's improvement focus.
• Premier Inc. Premier is a large healthcare improvement company offering performance services, consulting, and collaboratives to hospitals and health systems, with comparable process and quality improvement consulting offerings.

Regional players

• Health Quality Innovators (HQI): Health Quality Innovators is a Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) providing quality improvement consulting to healthcare organizations, with comparable process improvement methodology focus and similar grant-funded program structures.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

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