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ACS Awarded Contracts With Sutter Health and Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
MIDAS+ Press Releases - Source: ACS MIDAS+
Thursday April 7, 8:15 am ET
DALLAS, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., (NYSE: ACS - News), a premier provider of business process and information technology outsourcing solutions, announced today that it has signed three-year agreements with Sutter Health, a Sacramento, California-based hospital system, and Houston, Texas-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System to utilize its MIDAS+ DataVision clinically focused analytic tools and services.
Long a major player in the commercial healthcare industry, ACS Healthcare Solutions, a business unit of ACS, continues to strengthen its position in the market with superior healthcare products and services. ACS Healthcare Solutions' MIDAS+ DataVision is a set of analytic tools and services specifically designed for chief medical officers and other clinical and administrative professionals. The solution provides robust data analysis of more than 3,500 metrics, and includes Web-based access to one of the nation's largest concurrent comparative databases, including the unique SmartReport(TM) to identify and prioritize statistical outliers and opportunities for improvement. Since the MIDAS+ DataVision solution was introduced two years ago, it has been used by more than 75 hospitals nationwide to drive improvements and cost efficiencies in patient care, reduce risk, identify and compare performance to industry best practices, and achieve quality measurement compliance standards.
Sutter Health is focused on driving improvement efforts and achieving the best patient outcomes," said Krystin Dozier, Vice President of Clinical Effectiveness for Sutter Health. "MIDAS+ DataVision provides us with the comprehensive solution we need to easily view performance across our enterprise. We are particularly excited about 'SmartReport' which shows us, in a volume relative, DRG-weighted priority, those clinical areas and quality issues where we can track issues and target improvement efforts. Through our analysis of potential vendors, ACS Healthcare's MIDAS+ DataVision solution was rated the highest on functionality."
"Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is excited about our use of MIDAS+ DataVision as a tool to help drive performance improvement throughout our organization," said Pat Metzger, Chief of Care Management for Memorial Hermann. "MIDAS+ DataVision helps provide focus in evaluating our data. ACS Healthcare Solutions' tools and services identify areas where we can have the most significant impact on quality and cost for our system, let us drill down to the specifics and then deliver the information to our clinicians. These tools allow us to do our external benchmarking, and give us an opportunity to share not only the areas where we can improve, but also the areas where we perform well."
"We are thrilled to be partnering with these two outstanding, highly respected healthcare organizations as they strive toward increased clinical quality and efficiency in their respective organizations," said Rich Helppie, Managing Director of ACS Healthcare Solutions. "Our extensive knowledge and capabilities in healthcare, combined with integrated, healthcare-dedicated tools and services, is enabling ACS Healthcare Solutions' clients to achieve transformational improvements in patient care, safety, and satisfaction -- with information technology (IT)-enabled cost-effectiveness and widespread ease-of-use. We share their goal -- recognition as the top performing healthcare provider organizations in the world."
ACS Healthcare Solutions comprises 2,200 experienced professionals providing healthcare information technology services and solutions to its array of consulting, outsourcing, and provider clients. The company furthered its dominance in the healthcare market with its December 2004 acquisition of Superior Consultant Holdings Corporation, a leading pr
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"University Medical Center implemented MIDAS+ Credentialing in 1988 and upgraded to the Windows version in 2000. In 2001 we worked with ACS as the alpha test site for Web Access. The implementation of this product has resulted in making a labor-intensive process almost invisible, saving hours previously required to verify medical staff membership—and it has been received with enthusiasm by healthcare organizations who can now query and receive a response at their convenience, not ours. This is the best product yet!"
Diane Leach
CPMSM, Medical Staff Coordinator,
University Medical Center,
Tucson, AZ
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