View Case StudySolution: Workforce Productivity
Product: BEA WebLogic Server® 8.1
Industry: Healthcare
Business Challenge:
A fundamental challenge for medical informatics is the design and implementation of evidence-based careflow management systems, to improve productivity while balancing costs with quality of health care. Historically, the hospital was relying on multiple, disconnected medical systems to administer care, for almost every medical service. This resulted in physicians and nurses devoting a disproportionate amount of time to sifting through disconnected paper-based and electronic systems in order to understand patients' needs. This silo approach to hospital administration was also expensive to maintain and was wholly inflexible.
Solution
With an annual production of 3 TB of data, the hospital needs a system that is stable and mature enough to accommodate over 2,000 users 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. BEA WebLogic Sever 8.1 integrates all patient and hospital administrative information into a single Web-based clinical information system.
This showcase, multi-tier infrastructure provides 2,000 doctors, nurses and other hospital staff in Radiology, Pathology and 28 other medical services with instant, comprehensive access to patient and administrative information. They can access the system from any one of the hospital's PCs, in a browser-based menu. The staff has a real-time view into six core applications.
Results
The hospital's in-patient and out-patient clinics use the system for almost all their activities, including order entry, scheduling radiology, pathology, surgical and other activities, reporting, medication administering, and admission. It captures a total of 3000,000 database updates each month. The system is used to schedule 70,000 appointments every month and capture and record 68,000 medical reports monthly. Physicians and nurses on a monthly base generate over 150.000 medical orders. And this scope of service is matched by the performance: 90% of classic interactions are completed in less than one second, and even CT scans comprising as many as 50 separate scan 'slices' can be viewed in just two seconds.
"BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 is a cornerstone of the clinical information system. We have replaced scores of disconnected paper- and electronic-based systems with a single, integrated system for managing patient welfare. This provides significant advantage at every stage of the patient lifecycle management. More than 95 percent of physicians are reported to be 'satisfied' with the system."