Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in the US has implemented a revenue cycle solution from IDX Systems that has been built on the InterSystems CACH'E post-relational database.
The implementation at Dartmouth was an upgrade to IDX`s next-generation business performance solution, Flowcast.
"This upgrade is another collaboration in a partnership between InterSystems, IDX and Dartmouth that has resulted in two decades of successful IT innovation," says InterSystems SA country manager Henry Adams.
InterSystems is the leading provider of database technology in the healthcare industry. All of the top 10 hospitals in America, as rated by US News and World Report, are running CACH'E-based systems.
Flowcast is one of a family of healthcare application systems offered by IDX. It is a comprehensive revenue cycle management system for hospitals, with integrated delivery networks and large physician group practices.
Dartmouth is an integrated academic medical centre that comprises Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital; the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic that is a network of more than 900 primary and specialty care doctors located throughout New Hampshire and Vermont; Dartmouth Medical School; and the VA Medical and Regional Office Center in White River Junction, Vermont.
"Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is a healthcare leader in leveraging information technology to cut costs and improve care delivery," Adams says. "It has been named one of America`s `Most Wired` medical centres by a 2003 survey published in Hospitals & Health Networks."
"The decision to move to CACH'E 5-based Flowcast was a logical result of that positioning," says Dartmouth senior VP and CIO Peter Johnson.
"We`ve seen object-oriented development taking off in the last few years, and that is the direction we are taking," Johnson says. "CACH'E 5 offers advanced object capabilities, and rapid development of high-performance Web applications."
"CACH'E 5 eliminates the need for developer-defined mapping of XML to internal database structures, thereby enabling faster application development," Adams says.
The solution for Dartmouth from IDX offers improved underlying capabilities, accessibility via the Web and enhanced ability to interoperate with disparate systems.
"Interoperability is critical in the Dartmouth environment, which includes a wide variety of applications running on a network that has more than 6 000 PCs in 75 sites across New Hampshire and Vermont," Adams says.
Dartmouth will also be using CACH'E 5 for in-house application development. Functionality such as transactional bitmap indexing, that provides the query performance advantages of advanced indexing technology with updated performance that is equal to traditional indexes, will be fully exploited in systems at Dartmouth.
"InterSystems has worked closely with Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to help it fully use the CACH'E functionality," Adams says. "Together with IDX, InterSystems has helped Dartmouth reach its care delivery and business objectives."
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