Skip to main content

Servicio Extremeño de Salud (SES) improves patient care with an integrated healthcare information management system

Spanish public healthcare system, Servicio Extremeño de Salud (SES) transforms its organization to operate more efficiently and responsive to patients’ needs when it selects IBM Global Business Services to design and deploy a new, integrated infrastructure.
Case study
Company name: Servicio Extremeño de Salud (SES)

SES transforms its organization to operate more efficiently and to be more adaptive, flexible and responsive to patients' needs when it selects IBM Global Business Services to design and deploy a new, integrated infrastructure.
Business need
Solution
Results
Customer information
Related reports & papers
Related services & products
i
Business need
Each hospital in the regional healthcare system had its own IT solutions, and only a few medical care centers received any application support. In addition, each facility had its own patient records system, and the data was not accessible regionally. SES realized that it needed to integrate both patient-related and administrative processes to serve patients better. This transformation required replacing local solutions with one integrated system, and extending access and application support, to create a more cohesive regional healthcare unit.
i
Solution
SES selected IBM Global Business Services to design and deploy an SAP R/3 based integrated healthcare information management system that supports and manages all business processes at SES, including patient-related records management and administrative processes. This Linux-based solution leverages a single integrated data repository that stores medical and administrative data in a central location, making it available region-wide.
i
Results

As a result of the IBM solution, up-to-date patient information is available throughout the region to all hospitals, medical care centers and administrative offices, enhancing the ability of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to provide the best service to their patients. Additional results include:

· The new solution connects almost 13,000 professionals, with the scheduling system managing 9 million outpatient visits/year

· SES sees reduced costs of paper and other media, and improvements in clinical and administrative efficiency

i
Customer information
Servicio Extremeño de Salud (SES)
Servicio Extremeño de Salud (SES) is the public healthcare service for the regional Ministry of Health (Consejería de Salud) in Spain. The Mérida-based organization delivers healthcare services to more than one million people in the Extremadura region in the western interior of Spain. Through approximately 13,000 professionals, SES plans, organizes and manages assets, such as human and financial resources.
Related reports & papers

Bayer helps develop the cures of the future with electronic capture of clinical trial data
Canadian Pharmacists Association helps deliver better medicine through on demand drug and therapeutic information provision
Canterbury District Health Board improves patient care with a wireless communication system
Jewish General Hospital improves patient care with a wireless communications system from IBM Global Technology Services
Laboratorios HIPRA gets user-friendly connection of an automated warehouse to SAP
Lambda improves data management to speed clinical trials
Personalized healthcare 2010: Are you ready for information-based medicine?
Samarinda Lodge improves resident care and increases staff productivity with help from IBM
Storstrøms ErhvervsCenter uses the power of pervasive computing to prevent hypertension and falls
Trillium Health Centre transforms healthcare delivery with just-in-time access to patient data
Get Adobe® Reader®
Back to top

Related services & products
Solutions for the healthcare and life sciences industry
Back to top
Printable version E-mail this page

We're here to help

Chat now
E-mail us

or call us at
1-800-IBM-7080
Mention 108AE08W


Subscription

RSS feed from IBM
Get business and IT insights from IBM Global Services, delivered direct to you via RSS

Subscribe to IdeaWatch
Sign up to receive monthly e-mail updates, including IBM Institute for Business Value studies and other fresh thinking from our consultants

Podcast series
Listen to our executive reports at work or on the go