For Immediate Release
TSH Exhibits at HDMA Operations Conference 2009
Clifton, NJ The Systems House, Inc.
TSH Exhibits at HDMA 2009 Distribution Management Conference & Technology Expo
Technology Expo Hours
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Monday, March 16
12:15 PM-2:00 PM – Lunch
2:30 PM-4:30 PM – Expo Open
4:30 PM-6:00 PM – Networking Reception
Tuesday, March 17
2:30 PM-4:30 PM – Expo Open
4:30 PM-6:00 PM – Networking Reception & Technology Expo Raffle
Technology Expo Raffle
4:30 PM-6:00 PM
High-Tech Health: IBM and Business Partners Help Modernize Healthcare Industry with Cloud-Based Services ARMONK, NY – March 17, 2009 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that HyGen Pharmaceuticals is improving patient care by streamlining their business operations using cloud-based software from IBM Business Partner The System House. In the United States, the new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will infuse $19 billion into healthcare IT and calls for the utilization of an EHR for each person by 2014. While EHRs help deliver smarter healthcare systems with real-time access to critical patient health information, only an estimated 38 percent of U.S. physicians used partial or full EHRs in 2008. As many healthcare providers struggle to manage the high costs of providing quality patient care, this low EHR utilization rate can be attributed to providers also being challenged with investing time and resources into technology for improving their operations. This challenge makes acquiring technology as a cloud-based service compelling in the healthcare industry.
“IBM is committed to working with our many business partners, alliances and clients to apply emerging technologies such as cloud computing to today's healthcare challenges as we help build smarter worldwide healthcare systems together,” said Dan Pelino, general manager, IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry. “IBM provides the technical training, infrastructure and hosting services that enable our Business Partners to deliver cloud-based software to those healthcare providers and businesses that would rather focus on their own core competencies than build a team of IT technical experts.”
HyGen Pharmaceuticals Streamlines Operations with Cloud-Based Services
IBM Business Partner The Systems House, Inc. of Clifton, New Jersey, has experienced an industry shift with more clients opting to acquire its supply chain software as a service. Its Master Distribution System (MDS) software, tailored to the needs of healthcare supply distributors, can be managed either by a client on its own premises or as a service, hosted remotely on IBM AIX software and IBM System p servers. Of The Systems House’s new customers in 2008, more than 75 percent opted to use their software with the cloud-based services delivery model.
“Healthcare supply distributors play a critical role in the industry and are not immune to the challenges of reducing the cost of care for patients,” said David Fertig, vice president, technical services, The Systems House. “With IBM technology and support, we’ve been able to deliver MDS as an affordable service, helping distributors to better manage their costs, become more efficient and meet the level of service their customers demand.”
HyGen Pharmaceuticals, a national wholesale distributor of generic prescription pharmaceutical products based in Bellevue, Washington, needed to implement a new IT infrastructure to better manage its business operations and address increased regulatory and reporting issues while building a foundation for solid business growth. The company was using several different software systems and wanted to create an integrated view of all its business information. The company chose MDS delivered as a service because of the unlimited growth capability and the quick start-up and implementation it offered. With increased business control and an instant view of all operational activity, HyGen now can catch invoices going out below minimum margins, decrease inventory levels on products that no longer sell, and provide customers with documentation when they attempt to return items that were not purchased from the company. Utilizing lot and serial tracking, HyGen also can create e-pedigree documentation for “track and trace” on drugs throughout the supply chain. All of these functions allow the company to focus on growing its business through new opportunities instead of dealing with the daily operational and technology issues associated with running a small-to-medium business. The Systems House is part of IBM’s Software as a Service (SaaS) Specialty program – comprised of over 200 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) using an IBM infrastructure to support their cloud-based software services offerings.The Systems House, Inc. (TSH), formed in 1979, is a company with a long standing reputation for outstanding customer service. With in excess of 250 installed MDS clients throughout the United States and Canada, TSH is widely recognized as one of the premiere suppliers of software and computer solutions for the Distribution marketplace. TSH has made a corporate commitment to distribution, which assures our customers that the latest in technology innovation, so critical to their success in the complex and fast changing world of distribution, will be available when needed.
For more information on TSH or MDS call The Systems House, Inc. at 1-800- MDS-5556. Or send a message to sales@tshinc.com
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