Microsoft Amalga Customer Solution Brief

Hospital Gains 360-Degree View of Patient Information with Data Aggregation Tool

Customer: Solothurner Spitäler “Amalga does away with expensive, fragmented IT Website: www.so-h.ch systems in the healthcare field. It takes the vision of Number of employees: 3,700 Country or Region: Switzerland making data available in real time beyond the Industry: Healthcare—Healthcare providers boundaries of location, systems, and formats and makes it a reality.” Customer Profile Solothurner Spitäler manages six public Dr. Pascal Walliser, Head of IT, Solothurner Spitäler hospitals in the Swiss canton of Solothurn, treating 28,000 inpatients and 114,000 outpatients a year. Business Needs Clinicians and managers wanted to break Solothurner Spitäler operates six public down the barriers created by disparate Software and Services hospitals as well as psychiatric services in patient information and have greater self-  Server Product Portfolio Switzerland, and it is the largest healthcare service capabilities for analysis. − Microsoft SQL Server provider in the Swiss canton of Solothurn.  Its IT systems are organised centrally and Solution − Microsoft Office SharePoint Server include several enterprise and Dr. Pascal Walliser, Head of IT for  Technologies departmental solutions based on Microsoft Solothurner Spitäler, first became aware of − Microsoft Amalga technologies. Previously, healthcare Microsoft Amalga in 2006. By using − workers had to engage IT staff to create, Amalga, hospitals and other healthcare modify, and generate reports about providers can aggregate patient data in patient data. near real time from disparate systems in a highly available data warehouse. Evaluations using systems in different departments could only be done manually Amalga has the capacity to detach data with a great deal of effort, making it from silos and link it to information from difficult to obtain a comprehensive view of other systems, without affecting the We would be happy to address your patients for early diagnosis of disease. original data. inquiries at any time. Please send your inquiries to the following email address: Doctors could retrieve information from Information from Amalga can be displayed [email protected] the existing clinical dashboard based on in user-defined views on the doctor’s Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, but terminal or, as in the Solothurn solution, You can find more testimonials from they were unable to conduct analysis processed by the clinician in existing Microsoft customers at: beyond the system’s boundaries or gain an desktop applications. www.microsoft.co.uk/healthsolutions overview of the population.

Amalga links seamlessly with the  The healthcare group sees the potential healthcare organisation’s modern for adding to Amalga data from SharePoint portal, which also supports the proprietary medical-technical systems, Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in for such as electrocardiography and rich media content. electroencephalography.

 IT technicians can experiment with new “Amalga does away with expensive, application scenarios in Amalga without fragmented IT systems in the healthcare the fear of compromising data security. field,” says Walliser. “It takes the vision of making data available in real time beyond  Amalga reduces the costs of migrating the boundaries of location, systems, and patient data. Says Walliser, “A hospital I formats and makes it a reality.” visited in the United States was already using its third laboratory system without Benefits requiring a single data migration—all thanks to Amalga.”  Clinicians access structured and unstructured medical data from their existing systems anytime, anywhere—for example, in the office or operating theatre—and in near real time, rapidly generating a 360-degree view of patients for treatment.

 Healthcare managers gain an overview of patterns of disease across the population, helping ensure a rapid response to any threat of an epidemic.

 Amalga integrates data about a patient from different hospital silos, such as radiology, laboratory, and demographics. Solothurner Spitäler will add clinical documentation to the solution by the end of 2010.

 Solothurner Spitäler is now well prepared for the introduction of diagnosis-related groups—a nationwide patient classification system—in Switzerland.

This case study is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY. Document published March 2011