Cleveland clinic is a non-profit medical center that
was founded in 1921. It is one of the few clinics that integrates clinical and
hospital care with education. As part the clinic's vision they decided to
embark on a project that would strengthen their clinical, research
and business decision making by leveraging its patient information. Just
because the clinic is huge, it is very much compartmentalized and
with this information wasn't flowing through each department as it was supposed
to. Even though they had lots of data to be able to predict underlying disease
causing patterns, the silo system in place was hindering their progress. They
needed a way to pull together their huge patient data to unlock its core value
and develop it into a core process so they decided employ IBM consulting
services to roll-out the IBM Healthcare and life Sciences Clinical
Genomics solution to access analyze and share data where it is at.
As
a solution to Cleveland Clinic's problem, IBM selected its WebSphere Portal
Enable for Multiplatforms. What this did was; it improved the ability of
the clinic to predict, diagnose and treat disease via real time patient
information, it gave the clinic the ability to optimize operational decisions
while maintaining strong outcomes and finally it reduced the time required to
identify qualified research recruits from months to minutes.
From
this article, I have come to learn maintaining a company's reputation isn't
necessarily an easy task. I have also learned that silo systems restricts
information sharing and doesn't help in the growth of a company.
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/imc/pdf/cs-cleveland-clinic-092605.pdf
www.clevelandclinic.org
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