Bay Area Hospital (BAH) in Coos Bay, Oregon, has recently switched to Unibased Systems Architecture’s ForSite2020 application suite to include ForSite2020 Resource Management System (RMS) for enterprise scheduling and access management, ForSite2020 Consumer Access & Scheduling for Healthcare (CASH) consumer portal for patient self-scheduling, and the ForSite2020 Fax Order Collection Utilization & Storage (FOCUS) fax management solution addressing faxed physician orders.
BAH picked these solutions after an extensive evaluation process to find the best solution available across the market, to facilitate enterprise scheduling and access management.
The hospital even reviewed the advanced capabilities offered by the more mature Unibased web portals as well as the availability of the integrated ForSite2020 FOCUS module that allowed them to initiate the patient scheduling process upon receipt of faxed physician orders.
The officials at BAH said that they had been successfully using ForSite2020 periOperative Resource Management System (ORMS) for surgery management since July 2011; and this solution expansion will now provide coordinated scheduling for all patient services and departments along with surgeries that were already being scheduled in ForSite2020 ORMS.
Brenda Curtner, BAH Director of Clinical Informatics, stated, “We believe Unibased has the tools we need, and can help us achieve this in a short timeframe while we continue with other projects that are already underway.”
Bob Adams, director of Information Services added, “We are excited about enhancing our relationship with Unibased and expanding our use of ForSite2020(R) to include the #1 ranked enterprise scheduling system.”
In addition, ForSite2020 FOCUS even attaches the physician order to the pre-registration associated with the scheduled event and this cuts down the need for staff in the service-performing departments to manage, track and store paper faxes.
Phil Amelung, principal consultant with Unibased said that Bay Area Hospital's decision to move forward with Unibased not only reflects their desire to acquire the most functional solution available but is also a testament to the close partnership they have built based on trust and top notch service as well as the tight integration they have achieved with Siemens MedSeries4.
In other news, Unibased recently achieved “Best In KLAS” for 9 consecutive years for the market segment of enterprise scheduling (2003-2011) and 8 consecutive years for surgery management (2003-2010), as well as the KLAS Category Leader Award (1999-2002).
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