The value of hospital IT investments now must be measured as to how they enhance an institution’s capability of saving lives and reducing medical errors. A pulse check on how hospital executives currently invest in IT business solutions, however, reveals an erratic approach to decision-making, essentially reducing the outcomes value of those investments. This white [...]
CPOE is the new buzzword in health care outsourcing. El Camino Hospital \x0d\x0ainstalled a CPOE system in 1969. This case study explains CPOE’s evolution.
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Read a case study about how El Camino Hospital outsourced its IT to reduce costs and reengineer its processes.
In today’s hospitals, technology is of utmost importance to reducing costs, streamlining functions and providing the best patient care. Some hospitals have learned that outsourcing can make an enormous strategic impact and be a differentiator in competitive advantage.
Chicago Hope, meet High Tech. HP manages the printing in Switzerland with surgical precision.
When the South Florida State Hospital was built in 1957, the town of Pembroke Pines was a community of dirt roads. Today, Pembroke Pines is a flourishing upscale community west of Fort Lauderdale. Similarly, the mental hospital’s needs have changed significantly in the last 40 years…
Back in 1995, Michael A. Boyle, associate hospital director, William Beaumont Hospital, was in a quandary. The hospital had identified facilities management as an area where they wanted to reduce costs without sacrificing the quality for which the hospital system is known, but the traditional approaches had not yielded any solutions.
Most Visionary Relationship: Beaumont Hospital and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Like most health care delivery organizations, Beaumont Hospital is under constant pressure from the government and insurance companies to find new ways to reduce costs.
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