CA-UNICENTER: THE RIGHT RX FOR GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM.ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 1996-- Computer Associates' Enterprise Management Solution Controls Complex Computing System CA-Unicenter, Computer Associates International, Inc.'s (CA) enterprise management software solution, is curing the growing pains grow·ing pains pl.n. Pains in the limbs and joints of children or adolescents, frequently occurring at night and often attributed to rapid growth but arising from various unrelated causes. of Greenville Hospital System's sprawling computing enterprise. Implemented to centrally manage a geographically dispersed and highly complex array of computing platforms, CA-Unicenter ensures that the hospital's life-affecting computer systems are always operational. Serving a community of more than 350,000 people, Greenville Hospital System is the largest medical complex in South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. . In addition to its three acute care facilities, Greenville Hospital System maintains a specialized psychiatric hospital psychiatric hospital n. A hospital for the care and treatment of patients affected with acute or chronic mental illness. Also called mental hospital. , rehabilitation and children's hospitals This is a list of children's hospitals. See also Pediatric Care. International
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n. Abbr. SNF An establishment that houses chronically ill, usually elderly patients, and provides long-term nursing care, rehabilitation, and other services. , clinics, an emergency center as well as offices for staff and physicians' practices. As Greenville Hospital System's health care facility expanded, adding new facilities, functions, and applications, the hospital gradually outgrew out·grew v. Past tense of outgrow. its environment. Seeking a more end-user accommodating computer system, Greenville Hospital's IT executives sought to implement several client/server applications throughout the facility. In doing so, it quickly became obvious that better system management was critical to the success of the project. "Our application suite was moving to a client/server world, operations couldn't keep up and we couldn't add people due to fiscal constraints," said Philip Martin Philip Martin can be:
With a tight budget, Martin, Operations Director William "Tip" Jones and Chief Information Officer Nick Dierckman concluded that the hospital system could not afford to maintain the status quo--higher staffing costs and unpredictable, but expensive problems would inevitably result. "If you start losing reports, or causing outages, there's no telling how much that's going to cost, not to mention the health care ramifications ramifications npl → Auswirkungen pl of losing data," said Martin. "The basic reason we chose CA-Unicenter was the integration of all the functions we needed--it was already there," said Martin. "We could have bought other systems to perform those functions, but then it would have been our responsibility to put them all together, and we didn't have the time or people to do that." Other factors in the decision were Greenville Hospital System's long-standing relationship with CA, whose software runs the facility's mainframes, as well as the desire of the IT staff to have mainframe-quality tools available in the new client/server environment A networking environment that is made up of clients and servers running applications designed for client/server architecture. See client/server. . "A lot of things we were doing on the mainframes, such as scheduling, event notification Event notification is a term used in conjunction with communications software for linking applications that generate small messages (the "events") to applications that monitor the associated conditions and may take actions triggered by events. and print dispatching, weren't there in the distributed world," said Martin. "Since we knew what could be done, we tried to get there with our client/server systems, too." Dierckman said CA-Unicenter will enable the hospital system's client/server networks to access the high capacity centralized laser-printing facility through the mainframe, saving the expense of replicating this capability on all platforms. Because the business of health care requires an increasing degree of on-line documentation by doctors and staff, Dierckman said, a major project will be to run the practice management system, supporting physicians' practices and the medical center clinics. Greenville Hospital System is affiliated with the University of South Carolina's School of Medicine. Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has 9,000 people in 130 offices in 40 countries and had revenue of more than $3.5 billion in fiscal year 1996. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing info@cai.com or calling 1-516-342-5224. -0- All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Computer Associates International, Inc., Islandia Ilona Mohacsi, (516) 342-2542 ilonam@cai.com |
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