Aspen Valley Hospital Partners with Summit Healthcare to Ensure Business Continuity and Address Downtime System Needs
Braintree, MA – Monday, October 17, 2011
Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration and automation, today announced a new engagement with Aspen Valley Hospital, a 25-bed community hospital, to address business continuity and ensure system access in the event of a MEDITECH or network downtime. Aspen Valley Hospital (AVH) successfully implemented Summit Downtime Reporting System this fall.
As an award-winning facility known for its technical expertise and patient satisfaction, Aspen Valley Hospital understood the impact failed system access could have on delivery of care. In order to ensure uninterrupted system access to critical patient information, AVH needed a robust, secure continuity solution in place to capture patient reports and data for all hospital departments. Summit Healthcare’s Downtime Reporting System (DRS) provides access to crucial data immediately during scheduled or unanticipated MEDITECH system or network downtime.
“Quality care and patient safety is of the utmost importance at Aspen Valley Hospital and we needed to guarantee that our staff had access to all critical patient information should we experience planned or unplanned downtime of our HCIS system or network,” said David Bingham, Information Technology Director, Aspen Valley Hospital. “By implementing Summit DRS solution we feel confident that operations will continue smoothly during downtime. This was especially important as we prepared for our Nursing units to go live with eMAR.”
With an ambitious new business continuity strategy, Summit Healthcare worked with Aspen Valley Hospital to bring phase one of the Summit Downtime Reporting System live for the Nursing units. With the Summit DRS in place, Aspen Valley’s clinical staff now has access to pertinent nursing medication administration reports, nursing censuses and active orders during downtime. The DRS solution captures the reports through an encryption method and securely distributes them to designated downtime machines in the hospital.
“Summit Healthcare is pleased to partner with Aspen Valley Hospital to ensure business continuity excellence,” said Ted Rossi, CEO, Summit Healthcare. “Our proven downtime reporting solution will provide the necessary access to crucial patient data in the event of a MEDITECH or network downtime.”
About Summit Apex
The Summit Apex integrated product suite provides the MEDITECH industry with a comprehensive toolset for integration and automation needs and has quickly become the standard for streamlining efforts. From interface management to data migration and dictionary maintenance efforts, the Summit Apex suite includes:
· Summit Express Connect — a robust interface engine used by hospitals to maximize and streamline their interface landscape. Allows the ability to leverage existing interfaces and easily connect multiple 3rd party ancillary vendor systems.
Summit Provider Exchange — a scalable, secure solution that facilitates the integration of bi-directional patient data between the hospital and the EMR at the physician office or clinic.
· Summit Scripting Toolkit — a full-featured workflow and task automation tool that also provides the means to extract and parse data, and is often used when conventional (HL7) methods to deliver data are not available.
Summit InSync — the market leading solution for dictionary maintenance accomplished through a powerful extraction, analysis and update process that ensures dictionaries are synchronized from test to live and across multiple facilities or platforms.
Summit Downtime Reporting System — ensures continuous access to critical patient data for clinicians at all times, to ensure quality of care and operational continuity in the event of MEDITECH or network downtime.
For our healthcare clients that do not have the resources to develop and manage interfaces internally, Summit Healthcare offers Integration Outsourcing Services as part of a complete integration package.
About Summit Healthcare
Summit Healthcare is the choice of hospitals and providers who want to take full control of their MEDITECH healthcare systems integration and information management requirements. Since 1999, we have worked to provide the industry with the most flexible integration technology with complimentary tailored services and solutions.
Summit Healthcare continues to grow and has over 1,000 customers in the healthcare market, including close partnerships with complementary technology partners, major system integrators, and value-added resellers. For more information, visit http://www.summit-healthcare.com or call 781-519-4840.
