Development of Medical Imaging Platform for Healthcare Software Company

Challenge

A healthcare software company providing innovative digital pathology solutions for the anatomic pathology laboratory and in business of cancer diagnosis with goal to make detection, diagnosis, and therapy selection more accurate, efficient, reliable, and accessible.

The need was to partner with a company to re-architect and implement a next generation application platform and image server. Time to market was the essence so architecture and development of the solution has to be completed in less than six months. Delivering a quality solution for a complex architecture with time to market and in cost effective manner was a big challenge.
Solutions

Solutions:

Client conducted a detail evaluation process and selected AGNITY Healthcare to develop the solution to meet their business needs. AGNITY Healthcare team understood the business needs and challenges very quickly as soon assigned on the project. First delivery of re-architected platform was delivered in three months with subsequent quarterly releases.

Product architecture salient features were:

• Extensible platform service capabilities
• Highly scalable and high performance image server
• modular application deployment
• Inter-application collaboration
• High performance, large database
• Integration infrastructure and workflow

To support the development, following technologies were used:

• Highly scalable and high performance database handling large amounts of data
• Aspect Oriented Paradigm
• Application server technologies such as EJB 2.x/3.0, Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Toplink, JEE stack
• Distributed/grid caches such as Coherence/Tangosol, JBoss Cache
• Integration technologies as REST, Web services, SOA, ESB, BPEL, etc.

Benefits

The expected product was delivered on time on budget. With such an aggressive time-lines, AGNITY Healthcare consistently met delivery milestones with quality goals. The success of the product is attested by the fact that it has been successfully installed to several large US hospitals where detection, diagnosis, and therapy selection are made more accurate, efficient, reliable, and accessible. AGNITY Healthcare has long standing relationship with the client and was hired again.

Implementation of Bed Management System in Mexico Hospitals

Challenge

A leading provider of telecommunication services, network solutions, data and value added services to the residential and business customers of all sizes, activities, and scopes in Mexico market decided to diversify its business in healthcare space. In addition to EMR, PACS, PMS, and e-Prescription solutions, there was a need to provide an integrated inpatient bed management system in fairly short amount of time.

Solutions

As part of the strategy, client evaluated various vendors including some leading bed management system providers from US and chose AGNITY Healthcare to develop and deploy the bed management solutions to their customers (hospitals and clinics). APTUS PatientFlowTM was developed and deployed with following goals in the Admission, Discharge and Transfer (ADT) process: 

• Appropriate Inpatient / Outpatient Admission
• Streamlined Patient Placement
• Expedited Care Delivery
• Earlier Patient Discharge
• Improve Patient and Employee Satisfaction
• Improve the bed utilization and manage the capacity overflows
  

As part of ADT process, the solution consists of bed request, bed work list, bed board view, bed / patient information, bed / patient search, bed / patient activities, assign bed, request transfer, pending discharge, discharge a patient and real time status of beds through bed side touch screen phones.

Benefits

The solution aims at providing following benefits:

Reduce

• Need for alternative patient placement for overflow bed conditions
• Wait time for patients entering the system through the Emergency Department
• Wait time for admitting surgery patients.
• Dietary costs through the elimination of food trays going to empty beds
• Pharmacy costs by eliminating medications going to empty beds

Increase

• Effectiveness in providing patient discharge services such as: Home Health transition and follow-up; physical therapy; social services such as: arranging for equipment; oxygen, wheel chairs; and other patient required services.
• Utilization of bed and capacity
• Employee productivity and utilization