Healthcare

Healthcare technology company’s solution supports industry-academia collaborative registry and facilitates quick attainment of enrollment goals and generation of multiple publications.

Since 1867, the Reading Health System has provided nationally recognized healthcare to southeast Pennsylvania. The Reading Hospital performs 19,000 surgical procedures each year; has specialty centers for oncology, cardiology, and maternity; houses a Level II Trauma Center; and the system includes a state-of-the-art rehabilitation hospital. Its 2014 distinctions include HealthGrades’ Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence and America’s 100 Best Hospital designations in cardiac care, coronary intervention, critical care, pulmonary care, and stroke care.

By eliminating paper source documents from their daily site operations, the clinical research facility has enhanced data sharing, reduced administrative headaches, and ensured, for their clients, high-quality data that meet ALCOA and other attributes as described by regulatory authorities and GCP.

Data Repro Com Ltd enables sophisticated implementation of scanning, storage, and active file management solution, aided by information capture technology from Kodak Alaris.

Globalization of clinical trials, tightening regulatory requirements, a more competitive and collaborative commercial environment, and an increasingly mobile workforce requires life-sciences companies to standardize and improve regulated content management processes to ensure information is shared with the right people at the right time.

Pharmaceutical companies have been working diligently to meet global product traceability mandates, particularly the November 2017 U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) serialization requirements.  KPMG’s 2017 Serialization & Traceability Trends Survey found that 45% of respondents have investment more than $50 million to build the necessary capabilities for compliance.

The Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) is a wastewater treatment facility that serves Orange County, California. It consists of two operating plants, referred to as Plant No. 1 located in Fountain Valley and Plant No. 2 located in Huntington Beach. It is the third largest wastewater treatment facility west of the Mississippi River.

As the healthcare industry has transitioned to digital health records, patient misidentification has become rampant and carries significant consequences that can negatively impact patient care and a hospital’s financial performance.

As medical devices become more sophisticated and connected, they also become more vulnerable to cybersecurity risks.

In the continuing effort to increase quality and decrease costs, health plans and providers are shifting from volume-based care (fee for service) to a value-based reimbursement structure (fee for value). Value-based reimbursement promises benefits to patients, providers, and health plans, as it encourages delivery of high quality care at the lowest cost, largely by improving clinical and administrative efficiency.

At University of Chicago Medicine, we’ve been on a journey to make our experience match our science. One of the key efforts on that journey was to introduce iPad-based rounding as a tool to help nurse leaders identify and solve any patient or family concerns quickly and efficiently, as well as to recognize nurses and other staff members for excellence. We also wanted to capture patient comments in a way that would help inform system-level improvement efforts.

The food industry is known for fierce competition and razor-thin profit margins. F&B companies rely on a supply chain with demand planning capabilities. Is your's ready for what’s next?