All our case studies and user snapshots demonstrate the time and cost-savings realized by a variety of hospitals using Boston WorkStation for tough. time-consuming projects.
Scripting in a Paperless Environment
Challenge: In a paperless environment, how do you keep going in the event of a power failure?
Solution: Automate the regular backup of critical information to usable file formats
Result: Seamless access to critical data when the power is down
Automating Dictionary Maintenance
Challenge: Update data dictionaries across four facilities
Solution: UNISON technology, developed for Meditech dictionary maintenance
Result: 40% time savings and dramatic increase in accuracy
Automating Payment Posting
Challenge: Eliminate third party costs for payment posting
Solution: Automate the download and posting of payments from all major payers
Result: Saving over $35,000 per year on vendor costs
Automating the Enterprise
Challenge: Automate workflow throughout the CHRISTUS Health organization
Solution: Standardize on Boston WorkStation task and workflow automation
Result: Over 400 scripted tasks saving valuable resources and costly custom integration.
Streamlining Test Results Through Laboratory Automation
Challenge: Improve the way in which test results are being handled and reported.
Solution: Automating a variety of tasks and processes
Result: Lab results delivered within an hour and reduced FTEs
The Disaster Recovery Plan the Doesn't Cost a Million Dollars
Challenge: During an HIS crash the hospital staff was left without access to critical patient information
Solution: Automate the capture of a "snapshot" of critical information every two hours from various parts of the HIS
Result: Should another crash occur, hospital personnel are able to view and print critical information in the exact form they are used to seeing it
Automating Patient Registration, Credit Valley Hospital
Challenge: Improve the efficiency and speed of the registration process
Solution: Automated “self-check in” for patients
Result: Patients scan their health card at a wall mounted computer and within 30 seconds the registration is validated.
Sharing Patient Informatioen Between Multiple Systems, Charleston Area Medical Center
Challenge: Update an MPI which is maintained in the hospital’s system with registration information received from medical offices
Solution: Automate registration and patient lookups
Result: Savings of over $20,000 per year
Automating Pre-Registration From IDX to Meditech, Mount Auburn Hospital
Challenge: Inaccurate, incomplete or illegible patient demographics slow lab work and billing
Solution: A Boston WorkStation script automatically re-registers patients and/or specimens.
Result: Significant time savings in the lab and accurate, timely billing
Customer Reaction: "...we have been able to realize faster turn around in billing with fewer corrections and our lab personnel are ordering lab work instead of registering patients." Robert Todd, Director, Care Group IS
Updating Medical Records, Cambridge Health Alliance
Challenge: 20,000 reports were sitting in queue for electronic signatures and had to be updated manually
Solution: An easy to develop Boston WorkStation script to automatically update reports
Result: Twenty hours of work accomplished in just two hours
Customer Reaction: “I had very limited programming experience, but BWS was very easy to use. After eight hours of training, I was able to do twenty hours of work in about two – including the time it took me to write the script!”
Michelle Barker, Clinical Application Analyst
Running Unattended NPR Reports, Saint Anthony's Health Center
Challenge: Download key data from their Meditech system, clean unwanted characters from the file and upload to care management company - all automatically and unattended.
Solution: Boston WorkStation’s robust scripting tool with Visual Basic for Applications and easy-to-use Scheduler.
Result: What took employees approximately 30 hours to do is done in less than one day, on time and accurately.
Customer Reaction: “Due to days off, vacations, sick time, or just a lapse of memory, these reports were rarely run on time. With BWS, the reports are run, cleaned and uploaded to the Internet no matter who takes off or forgets.”
George Winterberg, Saint Anthony’s Health Center
Changing the General Ledger Fiscal Year Start Date, Overlake Hospital Medical Center
Challenge: Changing the fiscal year start date required the creation of new MIS and Fixed Asset databases and the re-entering of over 40,000 assets.
Solution: Boston WorkStation’s robust scripting tool with powerful Visual Basic for Applications.
Result: New FA database populated in hours, not weeks. Solution paid for itself with only one use.
Customer Reaction: “Our Capital Committee liked the idea of scripting to save time and money, but wanted more than a Meditech-only scripting tool. Boston WorkStation was the perfect solution.”
Layne Barnes, Sr. Systems Analyst
