MTC Irvine
Healthcare Provider Prescribes Integrated Portal to Boost Productivity, Quality of Care
St. Joseph Health System was early in giving its physicians online access to basic patient information. But as its doctors came to expect easy access to medical content, applications, and electronic medical records, St. Joseph Health System needed a broader solution. That solution: an integrated portal based on Microsoft technology that boosts physician productivity and collaboration while enhancing patient satisfaction and the quality of care.
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“This portal can give our physicians assisting in rural areas worldwide access to the same medical literature that we use here at St. Joseph Heritage Medical Group. That has to increase the quality of care.”- Michael Gilbert, MD, Associate Medical Director and Informatics Officer, St. Joseph Heritage Medical Group
To validate their concept, St. Joseph Health System technologists and clinical stakeholders went to a two-day Architecture Design Session at the Microsoft Technology Center in Irvine, California. “Microsoft got us through the first chunk of our product life cycle,” says Jeff Allport, Vice President of IT, St. Joseph Health System. “In two days, we had a project plan that would have taken us six months to produce on our own.”
St. Joseph Health System realized its vision by building on its existing infrastructure and adopting Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Citrix Web Interface for SharePoint to create Physician Connect Gen2. One of the innovations of the new Office SharePoint Server 2007–based portal was to use Active Directory Domain Services to authenticate physicians and provide targeted access to applications and data.
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