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El Camino Hospital Adopts Amalga

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The 395-bed El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, Calif., will use Microsoft’s Amalga integration/collection/storage software as a data platform to aggregate all of its information now residing in disparate transaction-based systems. The hospital will use the aggregated data to support quality improvement projects, including scorecards for evaluating hospital units and individual clinicians.

The application from Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp., previously known as Azyxxi, will provide one view into all the data across the hospital. This will enable El Camino to identify areas of improvement, measure progress against annual goals and drive improvement in group and individual performance, hospital executives say.

The hospital also will use Amalga to monitor admitted patients in real time to identify gaps in the quality of care for specific diseases, such as pneumonia or heart disease.

When it moves into a new facility in July 2009, the hospital will use Amalga to collect and display real-time data on patients moving throughout the campus, giving all staff members better access to information, hospital executives say. Using Amalga, the hospital will be able to identify patients’ locations in the facility in real time while looking at staffing levels and preventing potential bottlenecks, executives say.

More information is available at elcaminohospital.org. and microsoft.com/amalga.

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