North General Hospital in New York Launches Ondemandcare
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Case Study-New York:. 7/6/07 4:42 PM Page 1 North General Hospital in New York launches OnDemandCARE The North General Hospital in New York City has offi - ment Management & Imaging, Enterprise Resource Planning cially selected OnDemandCARE , supplied by Global eSolu - for financial reporting, Business Intelligence and the leading tions Group (GEG), as their new Electronic Health Record relational database for geographical redundancy. (EHR) and Picture Archival and Communication System “With a lifespan that is much longer than film,” said Lord, (PACS) for their Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic. “It’s the most efficient way to store and archive medical im - “We are all happy to be working with the staff of North ages as well as the best way to share those images with other General Hospital,” said physicians – meeting their Brian Lord, CEO of GEG. most stringent require - “They are going to see dra - ments.” matic improvements in the The ASP model is a cen - way they are able to store tralized hosted application and access their medical within the Louisiana Ties data.” Center. It will offer a total re - OnDemandCARE is an dundant back up system for integrated software solution the clinic. “Because it is a – a suite of services designed web-based application, it is to help an organization grow accessible from anywhere, by addressing all of its med - anytime –– but it allows for ical electronic data storage, a localized backup as well,” tracking, and retrieval needs. added Lord. OnDemandCARE is an un - Founded in 1979, matched alternative offering a safe, easy, cost-effective North General Hospital is dedi - solution based on open source healthcare integrated cated to improving the health of technologies. the residents of the communities “We are confident in our ability to set up a system that will it serves. A 200 bed medical facility located in New York City’s improve the quality of care for this community,” said Dr. Harlem, North General provides more than 1,000 jobs to the Jacques Jospitre, Jr., Administrative Director and Director of community, making it Harlem’s largest private employer. The Program Development for the Psychiatry Department. Hospital is also a center of learning and remains the only vol - “Other medical centers are spending extraordinary untary teaching hospital in Harlem. North General has dis - amounts of money for software,” said Jospitre. “This open tinguished itself by focusing on prevention, health source system is well-designed, well-tested and doctor’s rec - maintenance and treatment of diseases that disproportion - ognize its incredible value.” ately affect the communities of Central and East Harlem and OnDemandCARE is based on the Hospital hopes to further enhance its mission of caring for enhancements to the lauded and the underserved with the introduction of OnDemandCARE . very successful VistA technology “We are confident The first objective is to launch the system in the Outpatient that has allowed the VA’s 155 Psychiatric Clinic. After that, a usability study will be per - hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing in our ability to set formed to determine the benefits of implementing the service homes and 45 rehabilitation cen - in other parts of the hospital. ters to be linked by a universal up a system that Dr. Jospitre is quick to point out the financial aspects of medical records network. It al - using the OnDemandCARE system, “VistA is an open source lows any authorized person to will improve the product that was developed with public funds. It has all of look at 5.3 million patients' the functionality of the proprietary products at a fraction of records – everything from a quality of care the price. We are paying for the hosting and management of nurse's note written during a the software and not for its development. North General Hos - hospital stay, to the result of a for this community” pital is dedicated to providing quality healthcare in a cost-ef - blood test drawn at a clinic visit, fective manner to the Harlem Community. OnDemandCARE is to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a helping us continue to achieve this goal.” cardiology lab. Other open source technologies that are inte - For additional information, call 337.482.0628 or email grated into OnDemandCARE service model include: Docu - [email protected]. 7 0 / 4 G E G © 337.482.0628 • www.globalesolutionsgroup.com.