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- Hospital Authority of Hong Kong Enhances Public Healthcare Delivery With Intel Xeon Processors
- The Hospital Authority (HA) of Hong Kong is a public body that manages the territory's 43 public hospitals and institutions, with a million inpatients, over 8 million specialist outpatient visits, 2 million emergency visits and 5 million general outpatient attendances annually. Patients in Hong Kong sometimes visit different hospitals for...
- Tags: Hospital, Hong Kong, Health Care, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Healthcare, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- Milton Keynes General Hospital Used Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 to Reduce Programming Costs While Undertaking a Mission Critical Integration Project
- Located in Buckinghamshire, England, Milton Keynes General Hospital is a 460-bed District General Hospital serving the needs of the people of Milton Keynes and surrounding areas for the past 20 years. All NHS hospitals are subject to the recently-initiated NHS National Program for IT. In the face of the NHS...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Nucleus Research Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Programming, Integration, Healthcare
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- West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust Streamlines Staff Helpdesk Support With Hornbill's Supportworks
- Hornbill Systems has supplied its Supportworks ESP (Enterprise Support Platform) to West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust. The Trust helpdesk provides support to 3,000 staff for all IT systems including the patient administration system, desktop applications and hardware, networking and other peripherals. The helpdesk logs approximately 1200 calls per month, an...
- Tags: Hospital, Supportworks, Hornbill Systems, Trust Helpdesk, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations
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- Bluesocket Case Study: Health First
- Health First is a group of three hospitals located in Florida's Space Coast, and is recognized as one of the top integrated healthcare networks in the country. Last year, the healthcare collaborative decided to add 802.11 wireless networks to its three main hospitals, and consider wireless as an option at...
- Tags: Hospital, BlueSocket, Health Care, Health First, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Chonbuk National University Hospital Transforms Management and Boosts ROI
- Chonbuk National University Hospital (CUH) is the leading general hospital in South Korea's Chonbuk province. CUH is renowned for its innovation in patient care and wanted an equal reputation for its information technology. But CUH's IT infrastructure was not up to the job. Shortfalls included an inability to distill timely...
- Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., ROI, CUH, Balanced Scorecard, Managerial Accounting, Healthcare, Roi/Tco, Pricing, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Finance, Management
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- Centre Hospitalier du Kirchberg: Patient-Oriented Medical Care Using Thin Clients
- In 1992, the Sacre-Coeur Hospital and the Saint Elisabeth Hospital decided to merge into a new, patient-oriented hospital. This decision led to the Centre Hospitalier Kirchberg, a modern building complex in the city of Luxembourg, which opened its doors on July 4, 2003. The hospital was a 24 x 7...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Thin Client, Citrix Systems Inc., Healthcare
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- Chicago-Area Hospital Reduces Costs and Deploys Healthcare Applications With Cisco Medical-Grade Network
- Central DuPage Hospital is an interdependent network of healthcare organizations and services, including the 361-bed Central DuPage Hospital, with over 800 dedicated physicians and 4000 staff, convenient care centers, occupational health services, and a full range of options for senior living, home health, and hospice care. Central DuPage Hospital needed...
- Tags: Hospital, Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Chicago-Area Hospital, Central DuPage Hospital, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership Improves Patient Care and Reduces Costs With HP Medical Archiving Solution
- The Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership, composed of eight healthcare institutions in southwestern Ontario, was formed as a way to integrate and share strategic healthcare services, including diagnostic imaging, clinical care, laboratory systems, and capital planning. The driving force for establishing it was to accelerate the access of all participating...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Hewlett-Packard Co., Medical Imaging, Archiving, Imaging, Health Care, Healthcare, Document Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources
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- Managing Electronic Health Records: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- Sutter Health is a family of 26 not-for-profit hospitals as well as physician organizations and other medical services that share resources and expertise to advance health care quality. Because Sutter-affiliated hospitals and physicians share their knowledge and experiences to improve patient care, it became clear that diagnostic images needed to...
- Tags: Hospital, Physician, Sutter Health, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Computerworld, E-health, International Data Group, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- University College London Hospital NHS Trust Improves Financial and Purchasing Performance With Oracle and Patech Solutions
- University College London Hospitals (UCLH) National Health Service (NHS) Trust administers eight London hospitals, and is one of the largest and busiest NHS trusts in the UK. For many years, UCLH's finance department used a combination of legacy systems. They had created some interfaces in-house but there was no integration...
- Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., Financial, Performance, Financial Accounting, Hardware Upgrade, Healthcare, Finance, Hardware
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- Select Medical Corp. Implements Oracle E-Business Suite for 79 Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals and 790 Outpatient Clinics
- Fast growth has always been the norm for Select Medical Corporation. One of Select's biggest growth spurts came in 1999 when the company purchased NovaCare, an operator of 500 rehabilitation clinics and 35 occupational health centers. NovaCare's existing business systems were inefficient and expensive to manage, and trying to integrate...
- Tags: Hospital, Select Medical Corp., Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, NovaCare, Operational Accounting, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software, Human Resources
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- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Improves Efficiency and Patient Care
- Ranked as one of America's best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics treats patients at a 769-bed facility and many specialized clinics. To maintain its position as a healthcare innovator, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics knew it had to update its original...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, IBM Corp., Document Management, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
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- Healthcare Provider Enhances Collaboration and Streamlines Order Entry and Delivery
- Seeking to help users collaborate more efficiently, simplify software licensing, and streamline the entry and implementation of patient orders, Indiana-based Reid Hospital & Health Care Services has standardized its 1,000 desktop computers on Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition 2003 and is deploying patient-order-entry and emergent-care-order applications based on that software....
- Tags: Desktop, Patient, Hospital, Collaboration, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations
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- Wockhardt Hospital Enhances Patient Experience and Improves Management
- Wockhardt is the fourth largest pharmaceuticals company in India and the largest in the U.K. In addition to manufacturing drugs, it also operates a chain of specialty hospitals. As part of the company's plan to accelerate growth, the hospital division was identified for special focus and new hospitals were being...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Hospital Management, Wockhardt, Healthcare
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- The White Stone Group Increases Hospitals' ROI by Implementing the Intelligent Application Gateway
- The White Stone Group, Inc. is a leader in combining voice technology with other available technologies to improve communications in the healthcare marketplace. The company was looking for a solution to enable its 350-plus licensed hospital client-base the ability to securely access voice-based digital patient information via the Internet, in...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Gateway Inc., Voice, ROI, White Stone Group, Healthcare
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- Windows Embedded Device Brings Real-Time Healthcare Monitoring to Homes and Hospitals
- Zoe Medical knows that designing good medical monitoring and measurement devices for use in homes and hospitals is not a simple task. High among the key considerations are ease of use, cost, accuracy, and reliability. With the Microsoft Windows CE operating system, the engineers at Zoe Medical knew they could...
- Tags: Hospital, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Zoe Medical, Microsoft Windows CE, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Healthcare, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
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- Gachon Medical School Gil Medical Center Achieves 350% ROI in Five Years
- Gachon Medical School Gil Medical Center provides a wide range of health services, including an eye care facility, dental clinic, cardiac care center, and women's hospital. Gil Medical Center sought a technology partner that could help it become one of the most technologically sophisticated hospitals in the nation - and...
- Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., ROI, ERP, Healthcare, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Vertical Industries, Roi/Tco, Gender And Diversity, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources
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- Spanish Hospital Optimises Patient Care and Streamlines Drug Administration With Solution
- Located in Madrid, the Gregorio Maranon University General Hospital uses the latest technologies to improve its services to the community. One of its more recent projects aimed to reduce the risks associated with the administration of medicine to patients. The hospital needed a system that thoroughly monitored the administration of...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Administration, Microsoft Corp., Workforce Management, Human Resources
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- Shanghai Ruijin Hospital Improves Work and Service Standard With Cisco Solutions
- Established in 1907, the Shanghai Ruijin Hospital is highly reputed among the public and the medical circle in medical ethics and treatment methodology, and attracts patients from China and abroad. The hospital needed a network solution that would be stable, reliable, scalable, secure, flexible and responsive. They wanted to improve...
- Tags: Hospital, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Shanghai Ruijin Hospital
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- BarDIMM Pro Solution Makes Barcoding Easy for Finland's Top Hospital
- Finland's largest university hospital, the Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH), uses barcodes on its invoices, forms and even on some pieces of equipment. It previously used the Canon CaPSL system but Canon stopped supporting CaPSL at the end of the 1990's. When Canon ceased CaPSL printer production, the hospital decided...
- Tags: Hospital, Hewlett-Packard Co., Barcoding, Canon Inc., Printers, Healthcare, Hardware, Peripherals
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