Hospitals

Providers face increasing pressures to maintain competitive advantage and improve profitability. Report on patient satisfaction and compliance to quality measures. Demonstrate cost of services. Improve patient safety and quality of care. Make core operations more efficient and reduce cost. Enhance IT flexibility to meet changing clinical and business demands.

Cobalt Computers has solutions to help providers:

• Improve quality and operations efficiency.
• Enhance clinical integration and patient outreach.
• Optimize core clinical and business processes.
• Maximize IT business value.

Electronic medical records

With almost 98,000 deaths caused each year by medical errors, President George Bush declared that healthcare institutions will have electronic medical records systems installed by 2014. While every healthcare institution is on board with this initiative, many organizations are not sure how to get it done. IBM and IBM Business Partners are front and center in developing and delivering electronic medical records (EMR) solutions that will keep your healthcare agency on target.

The advantage

When the healthcare industry needs improvements, they are looking for solutions that will increase their ability to deliver better quality patient care. EMR is designed to deliver just that. The main idea behind EMR is to be able to view and update a complete, secure, electronic patient record, at the point of patient care. Some advantages of working with EMR are the ability to:

• Link all patient data from disparate applications into one consistent view for the physician.
• Redirect staff from paperwork to focusing on better patient care and boosting productivity.

Benefits

Reports estimate that nearly $17 billion of medical error costs are preventable. This prevention will stem from the implementation of a reliable, secure EMR solution. Some benefits to implementing EMR solutions are the capability to:

• Manage tremendous volumes of patient information that is fully integrated.
• View lab results or drug interactions immediately with fast access solutions.
• Virtually eliminate incorrect charges with electronic-capture applications.

The implementation of EMR solutions will allow healthcare agencies to focus on improving patient safety, reducing costs and boosting overall productivity. IBM and IBM Business Partners have developed reliable, secure and effective EMR solutions that will not only meet the federal government mandate, but also keep the focus on quality patient care.