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OhioHealth Selects Health Care DataWorks for Enterprise Data Warehouse and Healthcare Analytics

Another leading health care system has turned to Health Care DataWorks for the healthcare analytics it needs to make more informed decisions.

OhioHealth, a 17 hospital and 21 health and surgery center system based in Columbus, Ohio has entered into a multi-year agreement with HCD to implement its KnowledgeEdge™ Enterprise Data Warehouse.  OhioHealth joins Cedars-Sinai, Orlando Health, Essentia Health, Presbyterian Healthcare Services and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas all of which are already relying on HCD’s solution to provide actionable knowledge to improve quality while cutting costs.
Health Care DataWorks will provide a fully hosted business intelligence solution to speed the implementation process and enhance OhioHealth’s ability to leverage end-to-end user analysis for more informed healthcare decision making.

 Columbus, OH (October 11, 2012) – Health Care DataWorks, Inc. (HCD) is entering into a multi-year agreement with OhioHealth to provide its KnowledgeEdge™ Enterprise Data Warehouse to broaden the health system’s access to analytics in a manner that will  improve quality while reducing costs.

 Organization-wide data will be aggregated in the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to give OhioHealth seamless and near real-time access to information across multiple operational systems, including financial, administrative, clinical and research. This end-to-end user analysis capability provides an increased level of business intelligence. Additionally, HCD will provide its Value-based Purchasing application to help preserve or potentially secure additional Medicare reimbursements.

The EDW is particularly beneficial in the new paradigm of health care, where the pay-for-results approach is replacing the fee-for-service model. Because the EDW will provide end users with numerous ad hoc capabilities for procuring information, OhioHealth will be able to incorporate predictive analysis into decision making.

“Today’s evolving healthcare environment has placed a premium on system-wide analytics capabilities,” said Michael Krouse, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for OhioHealth. “Our team is looking forward to a strong partnership with HCD that will enable us to fast track the EDW implementation and achieve a higher level of  healthcare analytics that to this point has been largely prohibitive.”

KnowledgeEdge Enterprise will deliver an Enterprise Data Warehouse in a fraction of the time it would take OhioHealth to build its own, the result of HCD providing all the software, hardware and support, including the underlying data model, pre-built dashboards and pre-built reports. HCD also will host the EDW for OhioHealth.

“Our relationship with OhioHealth is a testament to the value we bring to healthcare organizations seeking to leverage information for timely and informed decision making,” said Detlev H. (Herb) Smaltz, Health Care DataWorks CEO. “When you aggregate and organize the tremendous amount of data that is created from disparate data-producing systems, you achieve a higher level of business intelligence that puts you in a stronger position to manage the balance between improving quality and reducing costs.”

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 www.hcdataworks.com. 

About OhioHealth

OhioHealth is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare organization serving and supported by the community. OhioHealth has also been recognized by FORTUNE Magazine as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” six years in a row, 2007-2012.

Based in Columbus, Ohio, it is a family of 21,000 associates, physicians and volunteers, 17 hospitals, 21 health and surgery centers, home-health providers, medical equipment and health service suppliers throughout a 40-county area. OhioHealth member hospitals include Riverside Methodist Hospital, Grant Medical Center, Doctors Hospital-Columbus, Grady Memorial Hospital, Dublin Methodist Hospital, Doctors Hospital-Nelsonville, Hardin Memorial Hospital and Marion General Hospital. For more information, please visit our website at www.ohiohealth.com.

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November 14, 2012 I Written By

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Healthcare Analytics Expert Jyoti Kamal to Serve in Expanded Role as President of Health Care DataWorks

One of the visionaries behind the technology that formed the foundation for HCD will help guide the company’s strategic product direction and develop healthcare business intelligence roadmaps for clients.

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) October 02, 2012 Health Care DataWorks, Inc. (HCD) has announced that Jyoti Kamal, Ph.D., has taken on the full-time role of president at the leading healthcare analytics company.

Kamal, with more than 15 years’ experience as a healthcare IT executive, is a founder of Health Care DataWorks and one of the visionaries behind the technology that became the foundation for the company’s KnowledgeEdge™ product suite. As president, she helps guide the strategic product direction at HCD and assists clients in developing healthcare business intelligence roadmaps leading to greater value and return on investment.

“Jyoti has played a key role from a technology perspective in helping to establish HCD as the leading provider of healthcare analytics for hospitals and health systems,” said Detlev H. (Herb) Smaltz, Health Care DataWorks CEO. “Her tremendous success in developing and launching a healthcare Enterprise Data Warehouse at one of the largest and most diverse academic medical centers in the country has provided her with deep business intelligence experience that we leverage in powerful ways to further benefit our clients.”

A foremost expert in healthcare analytics and speaker on all aspects of an Enterprise Data Warehouse, Kamal was Deputy CIO and Director for the Information Warehouse at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, which includes six hospitals, a unified physician practice and more than a dozen research centers and institutes. Under her direction, the Information Warehouse at the Wexner Medical Center became the critical hub of information storage and management for the health system, providing data integration, mining, training and application development to researchers and clinicians system-wide.

“After working for 15 years guiding the development of the Enterprise Data Warehouse efforts at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, I’m very excited to help other healthcare institutions experience the major benefits to quality and cost reduction that analytics provide,” Kamal said. “In addition, I’m pleased to be furthering the objective of Ohio State to commercialize some of its excellent technology.”

Kamal holds a master’s degree in computer science from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India.

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.

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November 4, 2012 I Written By

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Healthcare IT Pioneer Ivo Nelson Partners with Health Care DataWorks

The founder of Healthlink and Encore Health Resources has increased his stake in Health Care DataWorks, becoming a financial partner in addition to serving as a member of the leading healthcare analytics provider’s Board of Directors.

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) September 05, 2012 – Health Care DataWorks, Inc. (HCD) has announced that Ivo Nelson, a 28-year veteran of the healthcare industry and a well-recognized leader in healthcare information technology, has become a financial partner in the healthcare analytics company.

Nelson has served as a member of the Health Care DataWorks Board of Directors since 2008. He is co-founder of Encore Health Resources and chief executive officer of the startup investment advisory firm WealthLink. Encore Health Resources provides information technology consulting services to assist healthcare organizations with a wide range of strategy, advisory, implementation, process-redesign and optimization activities. Prior to co-founding Encore, Nelson led IBM’s Global Healthcare Provider business and was the CEO of Healthlink, which he built into the largest privately-held, provider-focused healthcare information systems consulting firm until acquired by IBM in 2005.

“Ivo’s commitment to Health Care DataWorks is a testament to the fact that we are well positioned as the leading provider of healthcare analytics and business intelligence solutions for hospitals and health systems of all sizes,” said Detlev H. (Herb) Smaltz, Health Care DataWorks CEO. “More importantly, his increased involvement in HCD brings an unmatched level of healthcare information technology  experience and a deep understanding of the industry that will create synergies among our team.”

Nelson has been recognized for his many accomplishments, such as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and recipient of the CHIME Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award given by healthcare CIOs to one person per year who most contributed to healthcare IT over a 20-year period. Most recently, he was selected as one of “HIMSS 50 in 50: Memorable Contributors in HIMSS 50-Year History” for lasting and influential contributions to the theory, adoption and use of healthcare information systems.

“I fundamentally believe that health analytic swill be the next big wave in health care. Health Care DataWorks is the best positioned firm in this industry to provide solutions to this space,” Nelson said. “Their ability to shorten the timeframe for implementation and solve for the challenges of finding the deep technical talent needed to do this work has made them a very attractive option for clients at all levels. And if that’s not enough, Herb and his team know this industry, have tremendous customer focus and are fun to work with.”

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.

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October 5, 2012 I Written By

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Cedars-Sinai Health System Selects Health Care DataWorks for Clinical Data Warehouse and Healthcare Analytics

 Health Care DataWorks has entered into a multi-year agreement with Cedars-Sinai Health System to provide business intelligence solutions that improve data analysis and enable more informed decision making.  All of the details are below.  CSHS is the latest leading healthcare organization to turn to Health Care DataWorks for their Clinical Data Warehouse,  joining systems such as Orlando Health, Essentia Health, Presbyterian Healthcare Services and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas all of which are already relying on HCD’s solution to provide actionable knowledge to improve quality while cutting costs.

The partnership is the latest in which a leading healthcare organization has turned to Health Care DataWorks for business intelligence solutions that improve data analysis and enable more informed decision making.

Columbus, OH (July _, 2012) – Health Care DataWorks, Inc. (HCD) is entering into a multi-year agreement with Cedars-Sinai Health System (CSHS) to provide its KnowledgeEdge™ Enterprise for the health system’s Clinical Data Warehouse.

CSHS will rely on HCD’s solution to broaden access to information, providing actionable knowledge to improve quality while reducing costs.  The agreement marks the latest partnership in which a leading healthcare organization has turned to Health Care DataWorks for market-leading business intelligence.

Additionally, as part of the agreement, Cedars-Sinai and HCD will work actively together to drive innovation.

“While we could have built the Clinical Data Warehouse ourselves over a period of many years, HCD provides us with the ability to fast track our project in a way that would not be possible otherwise, putting us in position to realize the benefits more quickly,” explained CSHS CIO Darren Dworkin.  “We look forward to our team working with HCD to create a broad and seamless view of our clinical data for easy analysis and decision making.”

The Clinical Data Warehouse will aggregate and organize disparate clinical and financial data, helping Cedars-Sinai to make decisions to improve quality of care and achieve operational efficiencies.

“We are aggressively building new products in anticipation of the needs of our clients, and the partnership with Cedars-Sinai is a testament to the value we can bring organizations that are facing ever-evolving pressures to reduce costs while improving patient care,” said Detlev H. (Herb) Smaltz, Health Care DataWorks CEO. “We’re excited to have another world-class organization using KnowledgeEdge™ to support its analytics needs.

“This relationship demonstrates what our offering can do  not only for our large clients that often have dozens of data producing systems above and beyond their EMRs, but also for clients of all sizes that are looking to leverage the tremendous amount of data being created as they complete the implementation of their EMRs.  In our mind, healthcare analytics are for everyone.”

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 www.hcdataworks.com.

Cedars-Sinai Health System

Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest, not-for-profit academic medical centers in the western United States. Renowned for the highest quality patient care and for its innovative research and education programs that make significant contributions to medicine and science, Cedars-Sinai has more than 900 licensed beds, 10,000 employees and 2,000 physicians on its staff. It consistently is named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News and World Report, with 12 specialties nationally ranked in 2012. For the past 20 years, it has been chosen Los Angeles’ Most Preferred Hospital by participants in the National Research Corporation’s independent survey of Los Angeles residents. Cedars-Sinai has received three consecutive Magnet designations for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, making it the hospital with the longest-running Magnet designation in California.


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August 14, 2012 I Written By

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Seasoned Sales Veteran Joins Leading Healthcare Analytics Provider as Vice President of Sales

Health Care DataWorks is strengthening its sales team to help healthcare organizations and hospital systems meet their growing needs for business intelligence solutions and analytics that improve quality and achieve cost savings.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 22, 2012– Nate Ungerott has been named Vice President of Sales at Health Care DataWorks (HCD) as part of the company’s strategy to continue to align its sales efforts to address the unique challenges facing healthcare organizations and hospital systems nationwide- particularly in the area of healthcare data management.

As the head of sales, Ungerott is tasked with expanding HCD’s outside sales force and building the inside sales team.  In addition, Ungerott will implement a comprehensive sales strategy leveraging the company’s expertise in healthcare analytics, and also provide all aspects of operational sales support. With the addition of Ungerott, HCD has appointed Van Chappell to the new position of Vice President, National Accounts.

“Nate Ungerott has a stellar track record and expertise when it comes to driving sales in emerging growth companies and introducing new solutions to the marketplace.” said Health Care DataWorks CEO Herb Smaltz. “We are confident he will achieve similar success with HCD and enable us to be laser focused on bringing the very best solutions to our clients.”

“Van Chappell has been very instrumental in our growth to date, is vital to our continued success and will ensure that our existing clients receive the highest level of service and support that they have come to expect from us. We’re excited by the opportunities that lie ahead with Nate and Van in their respective roles.”

Prior to Health Care DataWorks, Ungerott spent the last seven years at Accuvant, LLC as the company’s Global Account Manager.  During his tenure at Accuvant, Ungerott established a new sales territory in the Ohio Valley, where he signed and managed a number of large, national accounts. He was recognized for both his outstanding sales performance and for far exceeding quotas three years in a row.  Ungerott also held sales positions at EndForce, Inc. and Aelita Software. At both companies he was often tasked with building and training the sales teams and creating an underlying sales strategy to support the launch of new flagship products.

About Health Care DataWorks

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 www.hcdataworks.com.

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May 24, 2012 I Written By

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