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- Surgery Intake and Tracking System Boosts Efficiency, Patient Safety, Bottom Line
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center VUMC is Tennessee's largest and most prestigious medical facility. A decade ago, its anesthesiologists initiated the development of an easy-to-use, electronic anesthesia documentation solution that has evolved into a comprehensive patient information system specialized for acuity care. Called VPIMS, the solution was developed using Microsoft software...
- Tags: Patient, Microsoft Corp., Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Medical Center Develops Automated Patient Screening and Early Detection Tool
- Severe sepsis is the tenth leading cause of death worldwide and costs hospitals over U.S.$16.7 billion each year (Angus, DC et al. Critical Care Medicine, 2001; 29:1303-1310). Vanderbilt University Medical Center VUMC decided to develop a technology-based patient screening tool to help its clinicians more effectively detect and manage sepsis....
- Tags: Patient, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Productivity
- Case studies 2008-02-01
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- Everything to Gain and Little to Lose With Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Ranked consistently in the top tier of U.S. colleges and universities, Vanderbilt University is internationally known for its cutting edge technology and research programs coupled with the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Vanderbilts challenge was to regain top notch performance. This was solved by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition with...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Oracle9i, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Bluesocket Case Study: Vanderbilt University Law School
- Located just a few minutes from downtown Nashville on a national arboretum, Vanderbilt University is one of area's most noted landmarks as well as a respected research and educational institution. The university is no stranger to wired and wireless networks, with systems presently serving its college of arts and science,...
- Tags: University, BlueSocket, Vanderbilt University, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- Vanderbilt Set for 185% ROI in Five Years With Improved Performance, Availability, and Skills Utilization
- Most universities that run teaching hospitals have separate IT systems for each institution. Not so with Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt's two-for-one technology has worked remarkably well despite its size and complexity. However, in the late 1990s, Vanderbilt's IT systems hit a major snag as more of its departments came to rely...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, University, ROI, Vanderbilt University, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Databases, Middleware, Software, Data Management
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- University of Miami Medical Center Takes Patient Care to the Next Level With the Meru WLAN System
- As the only academic medical center in South Florida, the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami serves more than five million people, and it has earned international acclaim for research, clinical care, and biomedical innovations. The UM Miller School of Medicine needed to provide high-performance mobility services...
- Tags: Patient, Biomedical, Meru Networks, Healthcare, Leadership, Management
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- StorageTek Solutions: Just What the Doctor Ordered for Top Academic Medical Center
- Three major institutions comprise the Medical Center: Wake Forest University Health Sciences, North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Physicians. The Medical Center provides patient care, education, research and community service. The data that their end users were dependent on was very critical. Patient care was the primary goal...
- Tags: Patient, StorageTek, Wake Forest University, Medical Center
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- StorageTek-Siemens PACS Solution Improves Patient Care and Bottom Line Health at NYU Medical Center
- New York University NYU Medical Center is one of the nation's premier centers of excellence in healthcare, scientific research and medical education. After a lengthy evaluation process, NYU Medical Center adopted the StorageTek information lifecycle management ILM storage infrastructure solution to leverage better performance from its SIENET Magic PACS application....
- Tags: Patient, Pacs, Siemens AG, Health Care, StorageTek, New York University, New York University Medical Center, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware
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- Avaya IP Office Solution Provides Columbia University Medical Center With Valuable Lesson
- As one of the top research facilities internationally, Columbia University needs secure, reliable communications to link leading researchers to both colleagues and critical data. The goal was to provide top global research organization with new communications solution that is highly reliable, redundant and secure, providing new communications services for employees...
- Tags: Columbia University, Reliability, Avaya Inc., Avaya IP Office Solution, Network Technology, Networking
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- Next-Generation PACS Improves Patient Care
- The University of Rochester Medical Center URMC in Rochester, New York, is the medical and dental school for the University of Rochester, as well as a regional health center serving the surrounding area. The vast majority of healthcare institutions rely on medical imaging to provide patient care. The size of...
- Tags: Patient, Imaging, Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Next-Generation PACS, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Case studies 2006-05-01
- Medical Center Develops Patient Screening Tool Using Enhanced Web Technologies
- Severe sepsis is the tenth leading cause of death worldwide and costs hospitals over U.S.$16.7 billion each year. Vanderbilt University Medical Center VUMC decided to develop a technology-based patient screening tool to help its clinicians more effectively detect and manage sepsis. Physicians at VUMC collaborated with the healthcare application developers...
- Tags: Web, Patient, Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, Channel Management, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- University Medical Center Improves Security of Critical Healthcare Network
- Duke University Medical Center and Duke University Health System, known as Duke Medicine, is the largest health network in North Carolina, encompassing three major teaching hospitals, a medical school, a nursing school, and 60 clinics. Duke Medicine's security management solution did not provide the intelligence to help the IT team...
- Tags: Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Duke Medicine, Security
- Case studies 2005-12-01
- 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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- UK Medical Center Makes a Clean Sweep With Lexmark Color Laser Printers
- Established in 1957, the University of Kentucky Medical Center is consistently ranked among the top 20 critical care medical facilities in the United States. Employee retention was challenging in the fast-paced environment. Some procedures weren't being followed properly. Nurses were having a hard time using the computer discharge notification system...
- Tags: Laser Printer, Laser, Lexmark International Inc., Printers, Hardware, Peripherals
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- Dell Helps Medical University of South Carolina Bring the Intelligent Classroom to Life
- Established in 1824, Medical University of South Carolina MUSC is one of the oldest medical universities in the country. The university offers students an opportunity to learn cutting edge health care techniques in the quiet charm of Charlestons historic district. The University needed a comprehensive solution that would make technology...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Notebooks, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Case studies 2006-07-27
- Vanderbilt University Uses Unicenter CA-Easytrieve to Customize Critical Financial Reports for Senior Management
- Vanderbilt University uses Peoplesoft financial programs, which pull the information from an Oracle database, to determine eligibility when making student financial aid decisions. Unfortunately, the systems administrator had read-only access to the information already existing in the system. Although the Peoplesoft tools allowed administrators the ability query the system, what...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., CA Unicenter, Financial, Vanderbilt University, Computer Associates International Inc., Financial Accounting, It Management, Finance, It service Management
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- Major Medical Center Boosts Health of IT Systems, Cuts Update Time by 90 Percent
- Automated software updates are great - unless they reboot a computer that's needed to keep someone alive. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center didn't want that to happen, and so it had to manually update systems used for patient care. Now, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 gives computers the...
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Human Genome Center at the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo
- With the renewal of their supercomputer system in January 2003, the Human Genome Center at the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, updated their publicly available Internet service, which allows any user to search genomic databases. The center chose HiRDB, a scalable database from Hitachi, to achieve rapid...
- Tags: Genome, Supercomputer, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
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- MMT Case Study: Duke University Medical Center
- Duke University Medical Center DUMC has been recognized as one of the world's great health care providers. DUMC first began working with Wireless LAN technology in 2000. However, their initial of 802.11b equipment had several limitations. Duke's current wireless vendor was very expensive, both in terms of upfront costs and...
- Tags: Duke University, Duke University Medical Center, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, LANs, Networking
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- Cisco Helps Boston Medical Center Transform Traditional Nurse Call System Into Real-Time Communication With Patients
- Boston Medical Center BMC is a 547-bed private, not-for-profit hospital and the primary teaching affiliate for Boston University School of Medicine. BMC was using out-of-date nurse call systems from two different vendors which were inefficient and unreliable. Noise from constant overhead paging was annoying to both patients and staff. Old...
- Tags: Patient, Paging, Cisco Systems Inc., Boston Medical Center
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