Technology Solution Provider Helps HCD Deliver Healthcare
Business Intelligence Solutions
Farmington Hills, MI, October 23, 2012 –
Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services
provider (http://www.us.logicalis.com/),
today announced an innovative partnership with Health Care
DataWorks, Inc. (HCD, http://www.hcdataworks.com/index.htm),
a leading provider of healthcare business intelligence services, to
offer HCD’s KnowledgeEdge™ product suite to hospitals and
healthcare systems. KnowlegeEdge is a business intelligence
solution that enables healthcare organizations – regardless of size
– to improve quality and reduce costs. Together, Logicalis
and Health Care DataWorks can deliver KnowledgeEdge installed in a
customer’s data center with remote monitoring and management or as
software as a service (SaaS) hosted on the Logicalis Enterprise
Cloud (LEC) platform.
The rapid evolution and market acceptance of
KnowledgeEdge is in large part attributable to the innovative
partnership between HCD and Logicalis that leverages and extends
the capabilities of both firms. “We at HCD are laser focused on
doing what we do best, and that’s providing healthcare analytics
and business intelligence solutions to hospitals and healthcare
systems that are facing an ever-evolving marketplace. To do that,
it was imperative that we find a reliable partner for the technical
and hardware aspects of the solution,” says HCD chief technology
officer Mike Ostrander. “We needed one company that could
take responsibility for the entire system - from servers to storage
and networking – as well as provide implementation, monitoring and
management support to enable KnowledgeEdge to serve as a standalone
solution in our customers’ data centers. Logicalis lets us focus on
what we’re good at, and they take care of the rest.”
Other factors in HCD’s choice of Logicalis
included Logicalis’ strong, national presence in healthcare, its
consultative sales process, the company’s demonstrated ITIL best
practices in managed services and disaster recovery, and the fact
that Logicalis is a leader in both private and public cloud
computing.
As they work to reduce length of patient
stays, readmissions and bill rejections, hospitals across the
nation need increased access to information that can provide them
with an at-a-glance view of key performance indicators and the
ability to drill into the data to gain deeper insights into their
operations. HCD’s KnowledgeEdge Enterprise includes a unified
data model built exclusively for healthcare organizations bundled
with software, hardware and support that can be implemented at a
fraction of the cost and time it would take health systems to build
these functions on their own. The benefit to hospitals and health
systems is a broad and seamless view of financial, administrative,
clinical and research information for easy analysis and timely
decision making.
“The relationship between Logicalis and HCD is
a dynamic, scalable partnership demonstrating how Logicalis works
with ISVs to jointly develop an innovative business model that
includes cloud services,” says Karen Burton, healthcare business
development manager for Logicalis. “Working together has enriched
our individual offerings and opened doors for new opportunities for
both companies. We’ve learned from each other, and that has
empowered our respective market objectives. It’s a win-win.”
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About Health Care DataWorks, Inc.
Health Care DataWorks, Inc., a leading provider of business
intelligence solutions, empowers healthcare organizations to
improve their quality of care and reduce costs. Through its
pioneering KnowledgeEdge™ product suite, including its enterprise
data model, analytic dashboards, applications and reports, Health
Care DataWorks delivers an Enterprise Data Warehouse necessary for
hospitals and health systems to effectively and efficiently gain
deeper insights into their operations. For more information, visit
http://www.hcdataworks.com/index.htm.
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and
managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise
in communications and collaboration; data center and cloud
services; and managed services.
Logicalis employs almost 3,000 people
worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design,
specify, deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the
needs of over 6,000 corporate and public sector customers. To
achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with
technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp,
VMware and ServiceNow.
The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of
over $1.2 billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, South
America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of
the leading IT and Communications solution integrators,
specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and
services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec
Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges,
with revenues of over $5 billion.
For more information, visit http://www.us.logicalis.com/.