Today’s healthcare industry is plagued with inefficiency. Patients, providers, insurers and more are not connected. As a result, redundancy is rampant and information isn’t readily accessible. Plus, new ways of delivering care and new entries into the marketplace are making the problem even more complex.
Applying the principals and technology of Smart Work can help healthcare optimize both patient care and organizational performance.
The University of North Carolina Health Care System connects ambulatory care and hospital information systems with a web-based, Service-Oriented Architecture solution to deliver patient information wherever and whenever it’s needed most. Patient safety and clinical efficiency are dramatically increased.
Servicio Extremeño de Salud, the public healthcare service of Spain, enables patients to go to any regional health center, knowing the local doctor can view their complete records. All the locations act as one team to improve decision making and reduce manual processes for higher quality, more responsive care.
Mayo Clinic radiologists achieved an estimated 25 percentage point increase in diagnostic sensitivity for detection of brain aneurysms by weaving analytics and intelligence into the way they work.
Connected and collaborative, these organizations are improving their agility and are able to embrace and even take advantage of change – rather than merely react to it. People, processes and information are working together to improve healthcare delivery. IBM can help you do it., too. Are you ready to start working smarter?
What we offer
- Brochure: Working Smarter in Healthcare (1.71MB)
- Demo: Smart Work for Healthcare - ER Scenario
- Experience - in 3D - what it means to work smarter in healthcare
- Heathcare Case Studies eBook features a selection of Smart Work success stories
- Explore case studies on how our healthcare clients around the world are working smarter
- The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh shares how they're working smarter today