ISH implements Perioperative Transformation Strategies at St. John’s Hospital, IL

West Orange, New Jersey- August 3, 2004; ISH today announced the implementation of a Perioperative Transformation Strategy with St. John’s Hospital, Springfield IL. Saint John’s Hospital (SJH) previously engaged ISH to create a “Roadmap to Benefits Realization” to transition the implementation of the SIS perioperative information system into an enterprise-wide IT-Enabled Business Strategy for Perioperative Services. The “Roadmap” included the creation of a future state business model, definition of specific operational and financial ROI, and a detailed task and resource plan for the implementation.

The implementation will include new processes and functionality for PAT, Intraoperative Documentation, Scheduling, ADT interface, and Item Master interface to support case costing plus the implementation of Preoperative, Anesthesia, and PACU documentation, consolidation of Scheduling operations, Preference Card build, Rules Based Charging, and Custom Reporting / Information Access. An additional focus will be on Revenue Enhancement (RE).

“Within the RE strategy ISH has designed a comprehensive approach that combines existing best practice at SJH along with ISH recommended supplemental best practice that results in an extremely conservative $10.1 million dollar savings over three years,” stated John Marchisin, Executive Vice President, ISH. “The majority of this savings is derived from increased OR utilization for MOR and PAV type case mixes to improve suite utilization to the industry best practice of 80%. The remainder of the savings is derived from improving the charge capture processes, designing a new charge master, designing an automated procedure costing initiative, and increasing performance metric visibility.”

About Saint John’s
St. John's Hospital in Springfield is a regional healthcare center serving central and southern Illinois. The hospital is licensed for over 700 beds, making it the largest hospital in downstate Illinois. Founded in 1875 by the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, it is also one of the largest Catholic hospitals in the United States.

About ISH
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