Case Studies

ThedaCare is a community health system which includes four hospitals located in northeast Wisconsin. With nearly 5,400 employees, it is the third largest health care employer in the state and the largest in northeast Wisconsin. With its commitment to...

Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) has achieved system-wide interoperability by facilitating a comfortable co-existence of single vendor and best-of-breed approaches.  Implemented in 2007, DirectConnect blends simplified user login, a clinical portal, and streamlined clinician access to aggregated patient information. The...

North Mississippi Health Services (NMHS), a diversified regional healthcare organization, has adopted a self-distribution strategy with TECSYS’ EliteSeries warehouse management software for healthcare, enabling it to reduce hospital supplies cost by as much as $14.5 million to date while...

The Kalangos® ring was developed for pediatric annuloplasty to preserve  the growth potential of the child's heart. It is also suitable for adult annuloplasty by extension. This now commercially available device made of  biodegradable polydioxanone induces the growth of...

Until now, assessing the progress of treatment for Gastro-Oesaphageal Reflux  Disease (GORD) has relied primarily on an assessment of oesophageal healing. Documenting GORD therapy success is a difficult task, as mucosal damage does  not always correspond with the severity...

An osteoconductive and osteoinductive biphasic ceramic replacement for  bone loss could be an alternative to grafts. The safety and efficacy of this  material has been shown in preclinical and clinical trials, demonstrating its  suitability. An osteoconductive and osteoinductive biphasic ceramic...

Research continues into new ways of preventing and curing A-Fib, boosted  by ever-increasing new technologies. Catheter ablation has become a  mainstream treatment for the disease due to greater     technological  accuracy. It is widely recognised that the impact of Atrial...