SOURCE: Redwood Software
Banner Health Delivers Critical Patient Load, Staffing and Billing Reports
MORRISVILLE, NC–(Marketwire – October 29, 2010) – Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the United States, with more than 23 hospitals in seven states, uses Redwood Software‘s Report2Web to achieve secure, fast, and efficient delivery and management of clinical, financial, and IT reports throughout the organization. Report2Web gives executives, along with clinical, staffing, and billing managers the specific information they need to keep the hospital system working at optimum levels at all times.
Every day, healthcare organizations rely on up-to-date staffing, patient load, and payment reports to manage the dynamic balance necessary to maintain quality of care. For Banner, these reports were often extremely large and complex. Typically, the final reports were emailed around the organization in their entirety and stored multiple times on multiple networks, creating a bandwidth and storage nightmare. In addition, the reports could not be split apart, which made simply finding key information an inexact, labor-intensive manual process, delaying critical decision making. “Since we have implemented Report2Web, essential reporting processes that once took many people and days to complete, now take one person a few minutes to accomplish,” says Bill Beaver, IT Director, Enterprise Integration Services for Banner Health. “We save time and money every day because of Report2Web.”
Through strict security and control, Report2Web gives managers only the information required for their specific role or task. “Banner has more than 6,000 unique reports, and we store this information indefinitely,” says Beaver. “We currently have more than seven million reports in our system. That’s equivalent to 24,000 four-drawer filing cabinets. These filing cabinets would completely fill 1.3 football fields. We needed a powerful solution to make this information more readily available and useful to us. With Report2Web we have it.”
Report2Web’s flexibility and ease of customizing reports resulted in even greater time savings. Now Banner can automatically create custom report packages and apply business rules to extract totals from specific reports. This allows managers to focus on analyzing key figures rather than just finding them. “This saves us immeasurable time. If the totals are correct, managers often don’t need to see the detail,” says Beaver. “If the totals are incorrect, the manager can quickly get that detail and investigate.”
For Banner, Report2Web was not just an improvement, it is a core solution. It provides the organization with the system they needed to enforce security and make critical, time-sensitive business decisions that directly impact the hospital’s critical care and financial health — every single day. Report2Web offers the flexibility and power to handle high volumes of sensitive information quickly and efficiently. As Banner Health continues to grow, they can focus on providing world-class healthcare while their report management system grows right along with them.
About Redwood
Redwood Software is a global company providing enterprise report management, workload automation, job scheduling, and financial process automation solutions that enable organizations to maximize the value of their information management and technology investments. Serving thousands of customer installations worldwide, Redwood helps companies meet the challenges of today’s competitive environment by delivering solutions that make business operations faster, more effective, and more efficient. Redwood serves businesses worldwide through locations in Europe, North America, and Australia, and through its alliances, including its strategic partnership with SAP AG.
About Banner Health
Headquartered in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country. The system owns or manages 23 acute-care hospitals, long-term care centers, outpatient surgery centers and an array of other services including family clinics, home care and hospice services, and a nursing registry. Banner Health is in seven states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming. In 2010, Thomson Reuters named Banner Health one of the Top 10 Hospital Systems in the U.S.
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