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National Health Service Maximizes IT Value With Tailored Technical Guidance

The National Health Service NHS is the United Kingdom's primary healthcare organization, providing care to approximately 60 million citizens. While the NHS has a central IT agency that finances some technology purchases, each local Trust has its own IT department, resulting in a lack of centralized best practices. To ensure...

Tags: Health Service, Information Technology, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., National Health Service, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2009-03-11

Health Services Provider Cuts Costs, Improves Web Site Continuity With Virtualization

Caja de Compensacion Compensar is a health services provider in Colombia. Along with Cenet, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Compensar created MiPlanilla.com, a government-authorized Web site providing social security payment and management services. With a 150 percent increase in MiPlanilla.com users in 2008, the site required more server capacity and...

Tags: Web, Continuity, Virtualization, Health Service, Microsoft SQL Server, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Web Site Development, Servers, Internet, Hardware

Case studies 2009-02-01

Balearic Islands Health Service (IB Salut) Unifies and Centralizes Administration of Identity Management

Balearic Islands Health Service wanted to simplify the authentication of users registered in various information systems and reduce the number of user credentials needed to access computer applications to five. The challenge was to unify and centralize user management to facilitate movement of patients between hospitals and health centers and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Health Service, Administration, User Identity, Health Care, Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-07-01

Carena creates corporate concierge health service

Here's another way to healthier employees. You give them a phone number. They call when someone in the house is sick. A nurse can walk a patient through first aid, make sure they get to an emergency room, or have a doctor come visit. ...

Tags: Patient, Health Service, Doctor, Health Care, Carena, Mike Viles, Wiles, Patient Interaction, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-07

Health Services Center Treats Staff to New Remote Access, Boosts User Productivity

Montgomery County Memorial Hospital MCMH commits itself to providing high-quality health services to many communities throughout Southwest Iowa. The lack of a reliable remote access solution from any location or browser prevented staff from getting critical work done when outside the facility. This created technical support challenges for the IT...

Tags: Health Service, Health Care, Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, Remote Access, Telecommunications

Case studies 2008-05-12

Electronic Information Enhances Patient Care for Health Service

Delivery of care by multi-disciplinary teams within the National Health Service NHS suffers from fragmented information and workflows. This can lead to duplication of patient records, unnecessary hospital stays, and a large volume of unplanned admissions. Working with partner D2i Solutions, Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust PCT is...

Tags: Patient, Health Service, Health Care

Case studies 2008-02-06

IBM and Learn.com Speed Training, Career Development for Employees of Rapidly Growing Home Health Services Company

A home health services company wanted to train a rapidly increasing number of employees without adding in-house trainers. As a solution the company deployed Learn.com LearnCenter Learning and Talent Management Suite delivered through IBM Managed Services. As a result the company reduced expenses and time in training employees, and employees...

Tags: Career Development, Health Service, Health Care, Training, IBM Corp., Professional Development, Workforce Management, Vertical Industries, Training And Certification, Benefits, Healthcare, Career, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-02-01

Real Results Report: Health services organizations comply with HIPAA using WebEx

Health services organizations around the world are discovering that they can optimize business strategies while protecting patient records. These companies use WebEx online applications to reach and support a growing number of employees and customers. They also follow HIPAA mandates using WebEx secure connections that encrypt all content. This content...

Tags: HIPAA, WebEx Communications Inc., Health Service, Health Care

Case studies 2007-07-01

Pregnancy Calendar (Mobile)

This program will take your baby's due date (will calculate if you don?t yet know it) and tell you what is happening to your baby each day of the pregnancy, together with helpful advice and health service information UK only. You can pick future dates too.

Tags: Mobile, Health Service, Health Care, Baby, Gainweb, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Software downloads 2007-02-12

Nortel Networks Case Study: NHS Direct

NHS Direct is England's 24-hour health service telephone line. NHS Direct wanted to improve the service they were offering, while achieving the cost savings that centralisation should bring. They recognised that the only way they could create the desired consistency and efficiencies was through virtualisation - joining up all call...

Tags: Health Service, Nortel Networks Corp., NHS Direct, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking

Case studies 2007-02-07

Police maintain uneasy relations with cybervigilantes

Police maintain uneasy relations with cybervigilantesSounds like what police told us!Our neighborhood has had a sudden rash of burglaries and home invasions, apparently from gangs coming from out of town. The police told us they can't afford to increase surveillance and can't improve response time when they are called....

Tags: Cyberthreats, Strategy, knowledge, health service

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

A Cross-Functional Service-Oriented Architecture to Support Real-Time Information Exchange in Emergency Medical Response

Real-time information communication presents a persistent challenge to the emergency response community. During a medical emergency, various first response disciplines including Emergency Medical Service EMS, Fire, and Police, and multiple health service facilities including hospitals, auxiliary care centers and public health departments using disparate information technology systems must coordinate their...

Tags: Public Health, Health Service, SOA, Emergency Response, New Jersey Institute Of Technology, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Healthcare, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-07-12

National Health Service Shared Business Services Set to Cut Costs by 20%

National Health Service Shared Business Services NHS SBS provides high quality finance and accounting, payroll and procurement services to NHS organizations, enabling them to focus their expenditure and expertise on improving the quality and value of healthcare services to patients in England. NHS SBS uses Oracle's service-oriented architecture and Web-enabled...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Health Service, Business Service, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations

Case studies

Small Business Webcast: Windows OneCare: Automatic PC Maintenance (Level 100)

Windows OneCare gives round-the-clock protection and maintenance - virus scanning, firewalls, tune ups, file backups - the whole nine yards. This webcast explains more about this always-on PC health service.

Tags: Health Service, PC, Small Business, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts

First Health Services Leads Its Development With CA's AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler

First Health Group, headquartered in Virginia. First Health is the leader in public sector heath care administration, supplying 24 states with claims processing services, pharmacy benefit administration and plan utilization reports. All of this is done with First Health's Medicaid Management Information System MMIS. MMIS processes millions of claims every...

Tags: Health Service, Health Care, Computer Associates International Inc., CA AllFusion, Healthcare, Workforce Management, Databases, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies

Wireless Networks Help Mater Health Services Improve Patient Care

Established in 1906 by the Sisters of Mercy, Mater Health Services MHS was founded on the spirit of compassionate service to the sick and needy and continues in that mission. Each year around half a million people receive care through MHS Brisbane's health care network, which features seven hospitals and...

Tags: Patient, Network, Health Service, Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless Network, Wireless, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies

National Health Service Improves Patient Care for 59 Million Citizens

The National Health Service NHS provides healthcare for 59.6 million citizens of the United Kingdom. Recent initiatives have mandated improvements in the way citizens access healthcare and other government services. As a result, NHS anticipates that greater numbers of patients and healthcare providers will need to access information using the...

Tags: Patient, Performance, Health Service, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., National Health Service, Performance Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Secure Computing Case Study: Inova Health System

Inova Health System is a not-for-profit health care system based in Northern Virginia that includes hospitals and other health services, including home care, nursing homes, mental health services, wellness classes, and freestanding emergency and urgent care centers. Inova needed technology that would offer live monitoring of Web activity, as well...

Tags: Secure Computing Corp., Health Service, Red Hat Inc., Health Care, Securecomputing, Inova Health System, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

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The National Health Service Electronic Staff Record Modernizes Its Human Resources System

National Health Service Electronic Staff Record ESR is the world class, national, integrated human resources and payroll system that will be used by all of the more than 600 National Health Service NHS organizations throughout England and Wales. The challenge was to replace 28 payroll solutions and 38 disparate Human...

Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Health Service, Payroll, Health Care, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Finance

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Government Health Authority Establishes World-Class Business Practices

The General Authority for Health Services GAHS serves the health needs of the 1.6 million residents for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. With 14,000 employees and managing 13 hospitals and 49 clinics throughout the Emirate, GAHS recognized the need for a comprehensive healthcare/Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution...

Tags: Health Service, Government, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

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