Customer Case Study

Customer:

OASIS

Industry:

Healthcare

Challenge:

Develop a mobile application to allow clinicians to review patients’ test results on handheld devices

Solution:

Sybase SQLAnywhere, Mobilink and Sybase Unwired Platform with Afaria Device Management

Benefits:

Access to timely information improves decision making process; enhanced patent outcomes; and more efficient use of scarce resources.

Health informatics specialist Oasis Medical Solutions engaged Ecommnet to mobilise the test results component of its Patient Administration System – enabling clinicians and other hospital staff to access and review test results more quickly, on their iPhones®. Faced with an extremely aggressive development timetable, Ecommnet deployed Sybase’s SQL Anywhere technology as the data management and synchronization platform, and Afaria as the device management and security solution, allowing the development team to focus its time on the application.

Mobilising the Frontline of Healthcare

Patients who are admitted to hospitals typically undergo a battery of laboratory tests and/or imaging studies.
These tests enable clinicians to diagnose patients’ conditions or obtain the latest information on chronic or pre-existing conditions, and therefore to choose the most effective treatments. Getting those results from the lab or radiology department as quickly as possible is critical.
For nearly 20 years, Oasis Medical Solutions has offered British hospitals a web-based patient administration system (PAS) that includes, within its functionality, access to patient test results. Over 30 UK hospitals use PAS from Oasis. Wanting to provide this information to clinicians even more quickly — and wherever they happen to be — Oasis decided to mobilise PAS onto clinicians’ iPhones and ultimately to other mobile devices.

To achieve this in a very short time frame, Oasis engaged Ecommnet. With more than 25 years of IT experience, encompassing application development, infrastructure, database security, integration and communications, Ecommnet brought to the project the full range of mobile solution development capabilities that Oasis required.

“We were approached by Oasis because of our reputation in the field — particularly in the development of mobile applications — to create a proof of concept, mobile test results application,” explains Ecommnet’s Managing Director, Robert Campbell.
“Our charge was to develop an iPhone-based application that would extend the patient test results functionality of Oasis’ PAS, so that both clinical and non-clinical staff could see pathology lab and radiology results very quickly on their iPhone — almost at the triage stage. This would speed-up the diagnostic process, enabling staff to determine, very quickly, the most effective treatments and the right clinical pathways to achieve positive outcomes for their patients. The development timetable was very aggressive, as Oasis wanted to be able to demonstrate this proof of concept at an upcoming industry exhibition.”

Read the full Ecommnet Oasis Medical Solutions here