Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

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"Primarily we saw an opportunity to save money and provide a better service to our user community.At the same time we could meet current governmental regulations for information storage, and potentially some future federal HIPAA requirements"

Charles Ware,
Director of Computer and Communications Services,
Wake Forest University

Industry

  • Healthcare

Key Challenges

  • Antiquated and expensive COLD archival system
  • High costs associated with report printing and delivery
  • Long time-lag between information production and access
  • HIPAA driven security issues

The Solution

  • Report2Web central repository for reports from multiple applications
  • Quick and easy access to reports from a Web browser
  • An end to manual paper distribution of businesscritical reports

Key Benefits

  • Elimination of 1.5 million pages of printing and paper costs per month
  • Cost savings of at least $240,000 per year
  • Faster end-user access to information
  • Compliance with HIPAA security requirements

Environment

  • PeopleSoft Financials, Medipac Patient Billing and IDX Physician Billing
  • IBM MVS, OpenVMS, Solaris, Windows 2000
  • 1500 end users