Abtech partners with Major Medical Center and eCW to reduce downtime, reduce costs, and enhance patient care.
Situation
A major medical center had to upgrade their eClinicalWorks application. System downtime in a hospital is extremely expensive and problematic: patient care must continue 7×24, so manual processes are implemented during downtimes. This leads an uplift in hourly staffing costs during the application outage window, with difficulty getting those shifts filled, and reduced productivity.
Solution
Working together, Abtech, the Medical Center and eClinicalWorks utilized a unique approach to pre-configure the new environment, test, and resolve issues in advance that would otherwise extend the downtime needed for a successful migration. Abtech drove the project management and planning sessions, then migrated SQL in a way that eClinicalWorks had never seen before. Abtech even devised a rollback if the migration didn’t go as planned.
Results
Instead of the planned 24-hour downtime, the migration was completed in under 4 hours!. This reduced reverting to manual patient data input, impact to patient care, and overtime costs.
Contact Abtech today for assistance with mission-critical application upgrades, application migrations and other IT support solutions. Tel: 916.500.2111, email: rhenniger@abtechtechnologies.com
