Microsoft Amalga Customer Stories

Customer Stories

Hear Larry Stofko, Chief Information Officer at St. Joseph Health System, talk about how the 14-hospital system is using Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) to help meet its strategic goals.

Amalga is creating a platform for the future for St. Joseph. Because of the flexible use of data stored in Amalga, I believe we will have more choices in assessing future investment decisions, thus reducing our IT spend over time.

Larry Stofko, CIO, St. Joseph Health System

Putting Patients First

Read how New York-Presbyterian is raising the bar in patient care with Amalga UIS and HealthVault.

With the connection of Amalga, which aggregates data across the New York-Presbyterian enterprise, and HealthVault, which allows patients to aggregate and share their data across the healthcare ecosystem, Microsoft has provided a unique opportunity for us to put our patients first by giving them their medical data, and to empower them to manage their healthcare.

Aurelia Boyer, RN, CIO, New York-Presbyterian

Connecting Care Across the Ecosystem

Read how the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange ED Linking Project is aggregating data across more than a dozen area hospitals and more than 100 community clinics.

The really exciting part is we have just started, we have only scratched the surface of the opportunity that we have in using information. As we continue to maximize the potential of Amalga, and how it will help us tackle our healthcare challenges and the use of electronic health information in our community, the sky is the limit. We have really just started, and it is an exciting ride.

Kim R. Pemble, Executive Director, Wisconsin Health Information Exchange

Implementing Innovative Infection Control Through Integrated Data Solution

Read how the Infection Control department at Washington Hospital Center is using Amalga UIS to access comprehensive patient data, rapidly isolate infected patients, more accurately track invasive devices, and streamline health-department reporting..

It’s the kind of solution that every healthcare system would like to have.

Nancy Donegan, R.N., M.P.H., Director of Infection Control, Washington Hospital Center

Supporting Quality Transformation

Read how El Camino selected Amalga UIS as its data platform to support its aggressive three-year initiative to achieve a top 5 percent ranking among U.S. hospitals across all of its service lines.

Achieving the highest standards in patient care is the single most important goal of El Camino Hospital. But we cannot reach that goal without the ability to measure our progress against specific quality standards. Amalga allows us to quickly collect, view, and analyze data of any type, giving us unprecedented insight into the hospital’s performance and greater opportunity to innovate for improved quality.

Eric Pifer, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, El Camino Hospital

Putting Data to Work for Quality Improvements

Read why Amalga is helping St. Joseph Health System take a different approach to using data that is accelerating performance improvement.

Amalga allows us to take a completely different approach to using our data—we’re using our data right away and rapidly exploring answers to critical questions that we might have never thought to ask if the data wasn’t so readily available.

Kim Jackson, Director of Clinical Informatics, St. Joseph Health System

Addressing Healthcare’s Data Challenges Today

Read Hugh Cruse, Manager of Information Technology for H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, discuss healthcare’s unique data challenges.

Warehousing tools work really well in highly structured industries like finance where concrete measurements of currency and time fit into rigid structures. The breadth of data in healthcare is not so easily quantified or related. Amalga helps us harness all of that data by letting the domain expert use the data in ways not conceived.

Hugh Cruse, Manager of Information Technology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

Supporting Improved Decision Making

Read how Virtua Health is using Amalga UIS to provide physicians a more comprehensive view of all a patient’s data to help make optimal decisions about a patient’s care.

Amalga will let us pull together data in new ways—giving us transparency and streamlining key processes. Using Amalga, our physicians will spend less time tracking down information and more time making smart decisions and caring for patients.

Mark Van Kooy, MD, Medical Director of Informatics, Virtua Health

Improving Financial Operations

Read how Amalga UIS is helping Washington Hospital Center, part of MedStar Health, streamline the work environment, enhance cash flow, and plan strategically.

We have a far stronger understanding of everything from cash flow to what kind of billing approach is the most successful for a given physician.

Brad Kappalman, Assistant Vice President of Medicine, Washington Hospital Center

Improving Management of Hospital Operations

Read how Seattle Children’s Hospital has selected Amalga UIS as its data platform to serve as the foundation for a real-time hospital information “command center.”

Currently, our clinical and research staff requests information from a single data department, so it can often take days or weeks to get the information back to the person requesting it. Since multiple data systems can be integrated into Amalga, we hope to streamline data management, eventually realigning resources to support consolidated data management and reporting instead of maintaining multiple, nonintegrated data sources.

Drex DeFord, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Seattle Children’s Hospital

Supporting Clinical and Translational Research

Read how the University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) will use Amalga UIS to provide clinical and translational researchers with faster and more complete access than they previously had to electronic data stored on disparate systems.

We’re excited to collaborate with Microsoft in utilizing Amalga, a new technology that opens up access to critical data currently stored in disparate systems, to help improve translational research. The Amalga tool will improve the ability of ITHS to provide our researchers with access to all of the data they need when they need it, allowing them to conduct their work faster and more effectively.

Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, Division Head, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics
University of Washington

Improving Patient Care for the Underserved

Read how the District of Columbia Primary Care Association (DCPCA) will use Amalga UIS to enable the sharing of data among local hospitals and community-based health centers.

The sharing of medical information among D.C. health centers and local hospitals is uncommon. Using Amalga to aggregate and share clinical data, we will break down the barriers, enabling these providers to improve clinical decision making, minimize redundant work, reduce costs, and most importantly, provide higher-quality care to the neediest in our communities.

Sharon Baskerville, CEO, District of Columbia Primary Care Association

Providing Easy Access to Patient Information

Learn how Novant Health is using Amalga UIS to bring together information from its lab, imaging, pharmaceutical, vital signs, and medical records databases to provide an accurate picture of each patient’s health status and save providers time.

We chose Amalga to aggregate data from our disparate systems into one patient-centric source of information. Now Novant physicians can quickly access the data they need, increasing the potential for better patient care.

Dr. Stephen Wallenhaupt, Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Novant Health

Offering Superior, Economical Care with Single Software Solution

Read why the implementation of the Amalga Hospital Information Sytem has been instrumental to enabling Bumrungrad International in Bangkok, Thailand, to double the number of patients it serves while dramatically reducing treatment time.

Bumrungrad has outperformed every other listed hospital in the Southeast Asian market since implementing this system. It is a key part of our success.

Mack Banner, Chief Executive Officer, Bumrungrad International