Healthcare: Case Studies
- Arkansas BreastCare
- With EDS’ help, Arkansas BreastCare increased program enrollment four-fold, helping 17,000 uninsured and under-insured women across the state access the resources and treatment they need to keep breast and cervical cancer at bay.
- Arkansas Department of Human Services
- When Arkansas wanted to connect and streamline statewide healthcare processes, namely its Medicaid program, EDS delivered. In 2004, EDS helped the state process and administer 27 million Medicaid claims to more than 600,000 recipients via a suite of best-in-class automated claims processing, data management and reporting tools.
- Baylor Health Care System
- At Baylor's affiliated physician organization, HealthTexas Provider Network, a growing roster of physicians and clinics had outstripped the processing capacity of its centralized billing office.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' technology infrastructure could no longer effectively accommodate its rapidly growing data-storage needs. So, the company looked to EDS to implement a storage solution.
- Blue Shield of California
- Blue Shield of California (BSC) originally planned to perform all Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance work using in-house resources. EDS' expertise convinced BSC to do otherwise.
- Blue Shield of California (Sun Alliance)
- Blue Shield of California’s mixed product environment for its midrange server area presented business challenges in several areas – systems management, cost of ownership, and performance.
- EDS (Enterprise Labs)
- Enterprise Labs had reached the capacity limits of its facilities. The team initiated an aggressive virtualization program, renovating a lab into a virtualization center capable of hosting 5,000 virtual servers.
- Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance
- When researchers at the University of Pennsylvania wanted to take a rare neurological disease from the research phase to the treatment era, it looked to EDS to revamp the time-consuming manual processes ailing its data gathering capabilities. Using leading-edge Microsoft software, EDS built an automated Web solution for collecting patient data and accelerating drug trials toward a cure.
- Healthcare Payer Organization
- EDS implemented MetaVance®, an integrated claims-processing platform that can administer multiple plans and deliver an enterprise-level perspective on provider and patient activity.
- Humana
- After carefully comparing competing software solutions, Humana selected EDS MetaVance® to unify its extensive health benefits value chain within a leading-edge, self-service Web presence.
- Kansas Health Policy Authority (HPA)
- When Kansas needed to revamp its Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) to meet federal regulations, it selected EDS to supply a modern, comprehensive, HIPAA-compliant solution.
- Leading Health Insurance Provider
- When this leading health insurance provider decided it needed disaster recovery and business continuity operations, EDS and alliance partner EMC designed an innovative dual-purpose strategy: leverage its existing data operations to serve its business continuity needs and enhance functionality.
- Medical Device Manufacturer
- With the loss of a key component and a growing market with expanding needs, this manufacturer needed to redesign and enhance a remote cardiac monitoring system in short order. When unexpected delays and an already overextended development team threatened to derail the project, the company turned to EDS.
- Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority
- With hundreds of patients suffering harm from adverse medical events every day, Pennsylvania decided it was time to take action and treat the problem. So the state’s Patient Safety Authority looked to EDS’ IT expertise to build the first state patient safety reporting system in the nation.
- Power Management Implementation
- Inspired by ClimateSavers, EDS wanted to align more than 90,000 computers to EnergyStar power management standards. Through an internal system and multiphase plan, the company implemented a small change with a big impact.
- Veterans Health Administration
- Public and private hospitals have long dealt with the issue of ensuring patients receive the correct medicine in the correct dose at the correct time. See how the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital system partnered with EDS to eliminate this problem.