Case Studies

Delivering quality care in a challenging environment

How do you deliver better care to a growing number of patients in an increasingly pressured environment? At Sinikithemba HIV/AIDS Care Centre in Durban, South Africa, staff have turned to TrakCare™ – a Web-based healthcare information system from InterSystems that helps them treat and counsel thousands of people more efficiently and attentively than ever before.

The Hospital Costa del Sol, a large public hospital in the Andalusia region of Spain, was established in 1993 as part of a program to implement cutting edge business management technology in order to deliver quality healthcare more efficiently. In 2001, Empresa Publica Hospital Costa del Sol (EPHCS), the organization that administers the hospital, announced plans to fully integrate the institution’s operations.

TrakCare Brings Electronic Patient Record to Residents in theMountains of Italy

The local health authority (Authority), of Valle d’Aosta, in the mountainous northwest corner of Italy, provides medical services to approximately 118,000 residents in 74 towns.

Organized into four districts, it manages two hospitals (Viale Ginevra and Beauregard, with 436 beds and 40 outpatient positions) and a clinic (15 beds, eight outpatient positions) in Aosta, the regional capital. In addition, multispecialty ambulatory care facilities are distributed among the region’s districts. Overall, in one year the Authority handles approximately 50,000 emergency room episodes and 22,000 hospital admissions. Ambulatory services amount to approximately 220,000 visits per year.

Ensemble Enables Rapid Implementation of EMR at Dr. Negrín Hospital

Largest hospital in Canary Islands uses SOA to provide patient records

Doctors and nurses at the Dr. Negrín Grand Canary University Hospital have a new tool that allows them to speed care to their patients. It is an electronic medical record (EMR) that provides complete and personalized reports of patient information, gathered from multiple departmental systems throughout the hospital, and presented via an easy-to-use Web portal. The portal solution, dubbed Tabaiba, was built and implemented using InterSystems Ensemble®.

Ensemble plays multiple integration roles at Athena Diagnostics

Athena Diagnostics of Worcester, Massachusetts is a reference laboratory providing physicians with a wide variety of state-of-the-art neurological testing services. As a long-time user of clinical lab software from Misys Corporation (an InterSystems Application Partner), Athena Diagnostics is familiar with the Caché
database and rapid development environment.