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Growing Content Management into an Enterprise Strategy
When Sharp began implementing Cerner Millennium in its hospitals in 2006, it soon discovered that OnBase delivered value across all departments, including enabling the EMRs to provide clinicians with a complete patient record.
Sharp HealthCare has a reputation in the field as being an early adopter of information technology. Named 11 years in a row to Hospitals & Health Networks magazine’s “Most Wired” health care systems list, the San Diego, Calif.-based not-for-profit integrated health care delivery system has a long history of innovation. As such, Sharp, which now boasts more than 14,000 people and 2,600 affiliated physicians, developed a lab system in the early 1970s, implemented clinical documentation in 1985 and has partnered with numerous software companies to deploy health care IT systems across the enterprise.
Currently, the primary focus is deploying electronic medical record (EMR) systems to Sharp’s four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, and two affiliated medical groups to support Meaningful Use, according to Cathy Fuhrman, information systems manager. Sharp deployed Hyland Software’s OnBase, an enterprise content management (ECM) solution, in 2003 to address one department’s specific pain point. When Sharp began implementing Cerner Millennium in its hospitals in 2006, it soon discovered that OnBase delivered value across all departments, including enabling the EMRs to provide clinicians with a complete patient record. Read the full case study.
