Healthcare services: Case Study

CDHB’s emergency department and IBM implemented a solution from Vocera Communications that enables hospital personnel to communicate instantly with any other staff member or to call fixed telephone extensions within the hospital.

IBM and Trillium are working to fully integrate patient data across multiple points of care; allow patients to add input to and manage their health record; provide a fully integrated planning and scheduling process across the continuum of care, increasing productivity and streamlining processes.

The IBM team updated the organization's network infrastructure to a unified-communication-ready platform, adopting a new firewall, and moving the legacy firewall to a disaster recovery location. IBM provided project management, implementation and migration services.

IBM and Avaya deliver an integrated communications infrastructure that gives Virginia Commonwealth University a foundation to build upon.

Working with IBM, the hospital implemented a wireless communications system that allows users to immediately communicate with each other throughout the one-million-square-foot facility.

Samarinda Lodge, an aged care facility in Australia, improved communication between staff and residents by working with IBM to implement a hands-free, voice-based Vocera Communications badge solution, enabling staff members to easily call each other, while continuing to attend to the task at hand.

Saint Barnabas worked with IBM to integrate wireless communication technology by Vocera Communications with existing clinical systems for a more connected healthcare team, providing instant, hands-free, person-to-person contact, reduced response time, and a safer patient environment.

The IBM team installed wireless access points throughout the hospital, allowing staff to use mobile phones and handheld computing devices to communicate and gain instant access to patient information, with appropriate security measures and without interfering with JGH's medical equipment.

Thanks to IBM and Vocera, RCH was able to go from a paper-based hospital to a state-of-the-art, digital healthcare facility. RCH clinicians now have easier access to the right people and information, at the right time, without leaving their patient’s bedside.

Canada's Kingston General and IBM implemented a Vocera Mobile Communications solution to serve 1,400-1,800 hospital staff, resulting in a reduction in time spent on communication, patient care coordination and other support activities, leaving more time for direct patient care.

Bayer Healthcare is better able to concentrate on its core activities and reduce its maintenance costs when it engages IBM Global Business Services to implement a new global Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system for collecting and managing trial data electronically.

A regional healthcare network provides faster, better patient treatment when it engages IBM Global Business Services to implement an electronic healthcare record exchange system that integrates existing records systems and creates "virtual" healthcare records.

An Austrian healthcare provider saves millions of euros and removes its constraints to growth through a transparent migration from end-of-life technology, with an engagement led by IBM Global Business Services.

The largest pediatric hospital in Québec improves patient care and reduces costs when it engages IBM Global Business Services to design and implement the first customized electronic health record (EHR) system in Québec to easily share patient records among several hospitals.

IBM Business Consulting Services helps the Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) deveop e-Therapeutics—easy-to-use, integrated decision-support tools at the point of patient care.

A U.S.-based provider of accessibility services to individuals with visual impairments gains a better understanding of its customers' needs and the value of emerging assistive technologies when it engages IBM Global Business Services to develop a strategic accessibility technology roadmap.

Veterinary pharmaceutical company, Laboratorios HIPRA, connects its SAP ERP to a new automated warehouse with a real-time user-friendly interface designed and developed by IBM Global Business Services.

A South Asian clinical research company improves data accuracy and reduces the amount of time, resources and money required to produce clinical trial reports with the help of a new data management solution implemented by IBM Global Business Services.

Novant Health, Inc. predicts the future with IBM Global Services

A healthcare organization in the U.S. expects to improve the manageability of its IT budget and reduce its IT costs, when it engages IBM Global Business Services to provide the expertise to create an achievable IT roadmap to meet the healthcare provider's needs.

Server virtualization supports medical innovation at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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.

An independent business development center demonstrates that a pervasive Personal Care Connect solution is capable of improving the lives of elderly citizens and saving government organizations millions through the reduction of healthcare expenses related to hypertension and fall-related injuries.

IBM helped UHCS develop a plan for using technology to enable caregivers to provide high-touch care. The IBM Grid Medical Archive Solution protects data and simplifies the deployment, operation and management of massive fixed-content storage systems.