Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center Regional Medical Group Virtualizes Electronic Health Records with Windows Embedded

Hillcrest Family Health System from Texas, consists of: Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, a fully-accredited acute care facility, and Hillcrest Family Health Center a series of specialty medicine clinics. The situation this clinics were confronting were that the electronic health record they use constantly needed to be fixed, which resulted in two things very important loss of time and money. Since once a month they had to close all the clinics for a weekend to install and arrange their software’s.  The electronic health records are a collection of the health information of patients.

They consider Microsoft Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based server virtualization technology. This technology provided the tools the clinics needed in a cost effective manner through Windows Server 2008 R2.

The Hillcrest administration concluded that the use of Microsoft Virtualization allows the management of the clinics more simple and cost effective. This system allows the administration to integrate   160,000 patient records electronically and a hospital system a legacy 16-bit application. In addition they also included the Microsoft Office suite, Java, Adobe Flash, and a Virtual Machine.”

In conclusion the Microsoft Virtualization provided Hillcrest administration which includes: personalized desktop, built in connectivity and is ecofriendly. In addition the utilization allows easier HIPPA audits, reduced costs, and new service options for patients. The company invested $600,000 the EHR system but received the economical benefits in three years with a 35% reduction in cost in new technologies.

I think it is a nice thing to have systems such as the Microsoft that help the different clinics with the incorporation of technologies that will improve their services in a cost effective manner.