Boston Software Systems™, the leader in workflow automation software and technology to the healthcare market, continues to have tremendous success in working with university hospitals to automate internal processes, such as system conversions, claim submittal and patient registration. UMassMemorial Medical Center, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University and Mt. Auburn Hospital at Harvard Medical School are using Boston WorkStation™ to quickly build processes and automate workflow to meet their technology, business and regulatory needs.
Boston WorkStation technology is already deployed in more than 1,800 hospitals around the world such as HCA-Midwest, Charleston Area Medical Center, Lutheran Health Network, Cambridge Health Alliance, CareGroup at Harvard Medical School, UPMC, Credit Valley Hospital and Tenet Healthcare.
"These university hospital systems chose Boston WorkStation to help them successfully contain costs and reduce resources while improving the flow of information throughout the organization," said Steve Cohen, executive vice president of Boston Software Systems. "To better address the pressures of a dynamic healthcare environment within a university setting, hospitals must examine existing workflows to see where they can automate tasks or develop new processes. Boston WorkStation has been proven in this environment to save time and resources."
"UMassMemorial Medical Center needed to streamline and automate the process of validating patient registration to the correct physician and location before sending any lab results to those physicians. It is important to deliver the results quickly and within HIPAA standards," said Scott McAdams, manager, laboratory information systems, UMassMemorial Medical Center. "We have also increased the efficiency of our patient registration process. By streamlining the process with Boston WorkStation process automation, we save about 60 hours of work each week."
"Lucile Packard Children's is in the process of converting to Cerner's latest product for Admitting, Scheduling, Nursing Documentation, Pharmacy and Physician Order Entry. We also use about every other health information system vendor," said Harriet Nibblin, LPCH application manager, IT, at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. "I have created seven scripts so far for updating our systems with information stored in files. Boston WorkStation is a great tool, which saves a lot of time and effort and enables us to enter information with minimal resources."
"As a result of using Boston WorkStation, Mount Auburn has saved significant lab time and prevented many costly mistakes," said Robert Todd, director of CareGroup IS at Mount Auburn Hospital. "We've not only improved the quality of information that accompanies a patient or specimen to the hospital, we have also been able to realize faster turn-around in billing with fewer corrections. And our lab personnel are using their time to order lab work instead of registering patients. We are pleased with our results and are rolling out Boston WorkStation to at least 14 additional offices."
About the University Hospitals
UMassMemorial Medical Center provides Central and Western Massachusetts with a full range of healthcare services including serving as the region's tertiary/quaternary care referral center. As the academic hub of UMassMemorial Healthcare, the Medical Center includes three interrelated facilities on separate campuses (Memorial, University and Hahnemann Campuses) all within a few miles of each other. The Medical Center has developed a range of services previously unavailable in the region. The network of care includes four community hospitals: UMass Memorial - Clinton Hospital, UMass Memorial - HealthAlliance Hospital, UMass Memorial - Marlborough Hospital and UMass Memorial - Wing Memorial Hospital.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is a 264-bed hospital devoted to the care of children and expectant mothers. Providing pediatric and obstetric medical and surgical services and associated with Stanford School of Medicine, LPCH offers patients locally, regionally and nationally the full range of healthcare programs and services -- from preventive and routine care to the diagnosis and treatment of serious illness and injury. For more information, visit http://www.lpch.org
Incorporated in 1871, Mount Auburn Hospital was the first hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On a mission to improve the health of the residents of Cambridge and surrounding communities, Mount Auburn Hospital is dedicated to delivering healthcare services in a personable, convenient and compassionate manner, with respect for the dignity of patients and their families. Mount Auburn Hospital is affiliated with Harvard Medical School, making significant contributions to educating the caregivers of tomorrow. It also is a founding hospital of CareGroup, an integrated, quality healthcare system serving the healthcare needs of residents of Eastern Massachusetts. The hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and is a member of the American Hospital Association, the Council of Teaching Hospitals and the Association of American Medical Colleges.
About Boston WorkStation
Boston WorkStation is a workflow automation and integration technology that provides an environment for on-demand process innovation and development. Boston WorkStation allows healthcare organizations to dynamically respond to changing business and compliance requirements by automating common tasks, creating complex processes, automating interaction with Web sites, or integrating new applications, systems and devices.
About Boston Software Systems
Boston Software Systems is the leading standard for workflow automation and system integration software, enabling healthcare organizations to streamline complex business processes and improve productivity. Hundreds of healthcare organizations worldwide respond to regulatory and business initiatives by using Boston WorkStation technology to automate and improve processes throughout their facilities. Boston Software Systems' customers include HCA-Midwest, Stanford Medical Center, Charleston Area Medical Center, Lutheran Health Network and Tenet Healthcare. Boston Software Systems partners with leading application and system vendors such as McKesson, Siemens, Quovadx, Orion International and WebMD. For more information, please visit the Company's Web site at www.bostonworkstation.com or call 866.653.5105.
