Swedish remedies system with Microsoft healthcare platform
Swedish remedies system with Microsoft healthcare platform
Seattle's Swedish Medical Center has selected Microsoft technology to help improve care coordination as patients cross hospital organizational lines, making the transition easier for patients and healthcare providers.
One of the big challenges facing large healthcare organizations is organizing and using patient data found in disparate systems.
Swedish alone manages five hospitals and a number of clinics and, as a patient moves from one facility to another, the clinical, administrative and financial information that follows them is located in several different systems.
Microsoft's Amalga platform helps organizations integrate that data so physicians, nurses, and administrators can quickly and efficiently get access and use it to help patients.
Swedish also said it would use the technology for population management, helping caregivers provide individual or group care plans, track progress and report outcomes on dashboards. "Healthcare reform requires health systems to do more with less," said Swedish President and CEO Dr. Rod Hochman in a statement. "Amalga is a key technology enabler that will allow us to efficiently combine data stored in disparate IT systems across multiple facilities and use it to uncover opportunities to improve performance and the quality of patient care across the care continuum."
As the healthcare industry makes the gradual shift into the digital age, technology companies such as Microsoft are making a big push to develop useful, secure software for use by hospitals, physicians and patients.
Amalga is already used in the Johns Hopkins Health System, Norton Healthcare, Providence Health & Services, and others, said Microsoft.
Seattle's Swedish Medical Center has selected Microsoft technology to help improve care coordination as patients cross hospital organizational lines, making the transition easier for patients and healthcare providers.
One of the big challenges facing large healthcare organizations is organizing and using patient data found in disparate systems.
Swedish alone manages five hospitals and a number of clinics and, as a patient moves from one facility to another, the clinical, administrative and financial information that follows them is located in several different systems.
Microsoft's Amalga platform helps organizations integrate that data so physicians, nurses, and administrators can quickly and efficiently get access and use it to help patients.
Swedish also said it would use the technology for population management, helping caregivers provide individual or group care plans, track progress and report outcomes on dashboards. "Healthcare reform requires health systems to do more with less," said Swedish President and CEO Dr. Rod Hochman in a statement. "Amalga is a key technology enabler that will allow us to efficiently combine data stored in disparate IT systems across multiple facilities and use it to uncover opportunities to improve performance and the quality of patient care across the care continuum."
As the healthcare industry makes the gradual shift into the digital age, technology companies such as Microsoft are making a big push to develop useful, secure software for use by hospitals, physicians and patients.
Amalga is already used in the Johns Hopkins Health System, Norton Healthcare, Providence Health & Services, and others, said Microsoft.
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