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The Challenge
For smaller hospitals under pressure to balance their operating
budgets with the need to provide quality clinical software
applications, Application Service Providers (ASP’s) offer
these facilities a solution satisfying both requirements. The
ASP model mirrors a “fee-for-service” implementation
by delivering such applications to customers based upon a standard
fee encompassing software, hardware, maintenance services and
remote hosting costs.
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The Advantages
1) Foregoing large capital expenditures:
Purchasing, implementing, and supporting
clinical software applications represent significant costs. So much so, that
it is often prohibitive for small facilities to undertake. By adopting an
ASP “fee-for-service” solution, the “price” hurdle
can be overcome.
2)
Scalability:
Budget constraints do not hinder a facility’s
ability to have the system to grow as its needs grow. With either incremental
or exponential growth in usage, the facility only pays for the amount it
needs.
3)
Timely updates in performance and functionality:
Instead of investing in
software and hardware that can become obsolete in short order, an ASP solution
allows the facility to leverage its position with the vendor to stay ahead
of the ever-quickening pace of technological innovations.
4)
Attracting qualified
IT personnel while lowering costs:
By partnering with a vendor that provides
an ASP solution, facilities can enjoy the benefits of having qualified IT
personnel support their clinical applications without adding to their payroll.
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Ensure Success
Of course, no ASP implementation ensures success without considering the vendor
and their clinical software applications. Not just any application can or
should function as an ASP solution. To fully realize the potential of
the model, the software must be built to run efficiently under Intranet and
Internet-based architecture.
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Experience And Architecture Count
Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc., specializing in healthcare IT since 1985,
began deploying Intranet and Internet-based solutions in 1997. Using proven
Internet architectures that allow for multiple environments to share servers
and disk farms, Opus Healthcare Solutions has created software that can be
operated both effectively and efficiently over a wide-band Intranet connection.
Crucial to a successful ASP implementation is the notion that the software
must operate completely from the remote servers leaving only standard browsers
to be installed on the client’s local workstations. Opus Healthcare
Solutions’ multi-tiered software allows business logic, database access
to any commercial relational database, front-end presentation, XML communications
and Web services to all function on one or many servers. This allows performance
to be tuned to actual loads and allows for complete scalability to any
enterprise size.
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Open Systems Are Key To Growth And Cost Savings
Opus Healthcare Solutions uses open systems and open source solutions including
Apache Web servers, Linux operating systems and PostgreSQL, thus allowing
maximum Intranet performance at a very affordable cost. The OpusClinicalSuite
functions using ModPearl, Dynamic HTML, XML and standard SQL. An integrated
Crystal ™ reports enterprise solution provides reporting and ad-hoc
capabilities.
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Proven Technology At Clients Sites
Opus Healthcare Solutions, in combination with Universal Health
Services,
Inc. (UHS), operate a sophisticated ASP solution that services eight hospitals
from a single data center in Pennsylvania. The hospitals are spread over
three time zones and five states. And more facilities will soon be
added. Applications for Order Management, Clinical Documentation,
Clinical Data Repository, Laboratory and Anatomic Pathology all run from
this single data center. Connection is via both Frame Relay (an already existing
WAN) and VPN (Virtual Private Network).
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