Software AG, a leading provider of Business Process
Excellence (BPE) solutions, today announced it is helping build the
“hospital of the future” for Nemours, an
internationally-recognized children’s health system. Scheduled to
open in October of this year, the full-service Nemours Children’s
Hospital (NCH) in Orlando will feature state-of-the-art systems for
its clinical, facilities, maintenance and other supporting
functions, all working together and unified via Software AG
technology to create a “smart building” that ensures a comforting,
customized experience for young patients and their
families.
Children who frequently visit NCH will be greeted by a familiar
room setting each time they return to the hospital. The child’s
favorite video games, website bookmarks, friends’ lists and other
electronic entertainment will be pre-loaded and available in the
room. The lighting and temperature can be set the way the patient
prefers, which serves to enhance the patient’s sense of control in
an “out of control” setting. The blinds covering the
floor-to-ceiling glass windows may be set to provide just the right
amount of a view of the gardens around the hospital. Once the
children are onsite, hospital surveillance, RFID, facilities,
clinical scheduling and other systems work together, behind the
scenes, to ensure their safety and security. Other hospital systems
coordinate in-room maintenance and related activities to occur when
a child is getting an X-ray or otherwise out of the room.
“Nemours has long been a leader in the use of technology to
improve patient and family care,” said Roger Oxendale, CEO of
Nemours Children’s Hospital. “Our partnership with Software AG will
allow us to provide better data to our specialists, make our
patients more comfortable and improve security.”
Dax French, Senior Director of Business Development at Software
AG, said: “Nemours is realizing some striking efficiencies and
advances by integrating systems that were not designed to work
together. As a result, they can take advantage of new opportunities
to better serve their patients, both medically and personally. And
for children and their families, that means a hospital stay is more
safe and comfortable.”
Inside the “Hospital of the Future”
Nemours is using Software AG technology — webMethods Integration
Server and webMethods Business Process Management Suite — to weave
together clinical, environmental and other hospital systems that
traditionally stand alone and do not communicate with one another.
The result of this process-oriented, event-driven integration is a
healthcare environment that is more safe, personal and engaging for
its young patients, yet efficient and informed for the doctors,
nurses and other support staff.
Software AG technology provides the backbone for RFID badging.
When a caregiver walks into a patient’s room, an RFID sensor will
read the badge and the caregiver’s picture — pulled from the
hospital’s HR system — will display on the TV inside the room. This
lets Mom know the person matches the badge and lets the hospital
know who is accessing which patients. In fact, Software AG helps
enable inter-system communication and automation for many
situations, such as security events and urgent clinical response
events. The integration in no way replaces the expertise of the
care providers, instead it frees the physicians and nurses of
non-medical tasks such as silencing an alarm when entering a
patient’s room and allows them to immediately focus on patient
care. Thus, the security systems, facilities systems and clinical
systems work together through automated event-driven processes to
provide a safe, healing environment.
Other state-of-the-art hospital services powered by Software AG
technology include:
- Patient Access Display – a
tablet will be placed outside the door of each patient’s room; the
Patient Access Display replaces traditional magnetic whiteboards
with an electronic board that feeds patient-related data to nurses,
doctors and other clinicians in a respectful and unobtrusive
way.
- Clinical Logistics – this
clinical command center provides clinicians with access to all
patient monitoring systems, allowing them to respond to events and
alerts. Clinical Logistics unifies historically standalone
systems.
- Federated Data Management – by
integrating systems and delivering services, data integrity is
improved. Instead of systems copying or creating duplicate versions
of information, such as login information for associates and
non-associates, data can be delivered real time from a single
source. This improves system access security, simplifies support
for upgrades, and improves the ability to provide accurate audits,
e.g., who accessed specific clinical information five years
ago.
For more information on Software AG’s healthcare technology,
visit our healthcare site at:
http://www.softwareag.com/us/solutions/healthcare_sol/default.asp.
About Software AG
With more than 1,000 U.S.-enterprise customers and 800
employees, Software AG's U.S. operation contributes one third of
the company's total revenue and is Software AG's largest market
presence and R&D location. Software AG has operated nationwide
in the U.S. since 1973 through a fully-owned subsidiary, Software
AG USA Inc., which is headquartered in Reston, Virginia –
also an R&D hub for the company’s core data management and
integration technologies. R&D labs for the development of
Software AG’s webMethods product suite – offering SOA
integration and BPM solutions – include facilities in San
José/Silicon Valley, Seattle and Denver. For more information,
visit www.softwareag.com/us.
Software AG is the global leader in Business Process Excellence.
Our 40 years of innovation include the invention of the first
high-performance transactional database, Adabas; the first business
process analysis platform, ARIS; and the first B2B server and
SOA-based integration platform, webMethods. We offer our customers
end-to-end business process management (BPM) solutions delivering
low Total-Cost-of-Ownership and high ease of use. Our
industry-leading brands, ARIS, webMethods, Adabas, Natural,
CentraSite and IDS Scheer Consulting, represent a unique portfolio
encompassing: process strategy, design, integration and control;
SOA-based integration and data management; process-driven SAP
implementation; and strategic process consulting and services.
Software AG had revenues of €1.1 billion in 2010 and has more
than 5,400 employees serving 10,000 enterprise and public
institution customers across 70 countries. Our comprehensive
software and services solutions allow companies to continuously
achieve their business results faster. The company is headquartered
in Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN
DE 0003304002 / SOW).
About Nemours
Nemours (NAH-mores) is an internationally recognized children’s
health system that owns and operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital
for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, along with major pediatric
specialty clinics in Delaware, Florida, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey. In 2012, it will open the full-service Nemours Children’s
Hospital in Orlando, Florida.
Established as The Nemours Foundation through the legacy and
philanthropy of Alfred I. du Pont, Nemours offers pediatric
clinical care, research, education, advocacy and prevention
programs to all families in the communities it serves. For more
information, visit www.Nemours.org
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