Pennsylvania IDN Selected Summit Healthcare’s Downtime Reporting System to ensure business continuity during downtime
Braintree, Mass.- Main Line Health, suburban Philadelphia’s leading healthcare resource with four of the region’s leading acute care hospitals, partnered with Summit Healthcare to address business continuity and ensure system access during a HCIS system or network downtime. Main Line Health will be implementing the Summit Healthcare Downtime Reporting System this fall.
Main Line Health realized the importance of system access and were concerned about the impact of an HCIS or network downtime. Main Line Health needed to ensure they had robust yet highly secure technology in place to maintain system access. As organizations strive for electronic medical records and more systems are brought from paper to electronic, it has become more apparent than ever that access to critical data must be made available immediately should the system go down. Summit Healthcare’s Downtime Reporting System will provide the end users at Main Line Health with access to critical reports immediately upon a system or network downtime. The reports are highly secure through an encryption method and distributed to local downtime machines throughout designated areas of the hospitals. Through username and password authentication the critical reports are available to view and/or print which enable the staff to continue operations during downtime.
“Patient safety is of utmost importance at Main Line Health and we needed to ensure that our staff had access to critical data should we experience a scheduled or unscheduled downtime of our HCIS or Network. By implementing the Summit Downtime Reporting Solution we can feel confident that operations can continue during a downtime while we work to address getting the system restored,” said Karen Thomas, CIO, Main Line Health.
“Summit Healthcare is pleased to partner with Main Line Health and bring our Downtime Reporting technology to the Siemens HCIS customer. The Summit Healthcare technology can assist organizations with integration, automation and business continuity and we look forward to a long partnership with Main Line Health to address these very important needs, ” said Ted Rossi, CEO, Summit Healthcare.
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About Summit Apex
The Summit Apex integrated product suite provides the Healthcare industry with a comprehensive toolset for integration and automation needs. From interface management to data migration and business continuity efforts, the Summit Apex suite includes:
- Summit Express Connect — a robust interface engine used for both hospital to integrate with 3rd party 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 HCIS 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 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.