CSAM Health AS Modernizes Healthcare and Enhances Data Access with Electronic Processes
 
 

CSAM Health AS Modernizes Healthcare and Enhances Data Access with Electronic Processes

  • Oracle Customer:  CSAM Health AS
    Location:  Oslo, Norway
    Industry:  Healthcare
    Employees:  60
    Annual Revenue:  Under $100 Million

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CSAM Health AS is a privately held international software company that develops products for healthcare companies and organizations in Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Customers include primary care, clinics, hospitals, and health regions. The company was founded in 2005 as a commercial platform for Oslo University and its innovations and clinical workflow solutions. CSAM Health is recognized by Deloitte as the fastest growing e-health company in EMEA in 2010.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from CSAM Health AS

  • "Today many healthcare providers are facing great challenges with budget constraints and increasing demands for service provisioning. Oracle’s solutions help us meet these challenges with tools that replace paper-based processes with electronic processes, reduce lead times and costs, and provide our customers with a comprehensive information platform." – Kjetil Sanders, Chief Technology Officer, CSAM Health AS.

  • Develop an information platform to allow complete information exchange through a Web interface, between existing healthcare systems
  • Improve information workflow by replacing paper-based processes with electronic processes
  • Provide medical staff in a department, a hospital, or an entire health region with access to updated, centrally-stored patient information, while granting patients access to their own records
  • Ensure the solution complies with national laws and regulations and reduce processing costs and lead times

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Implemented Oracle SOA Suite to enable CSAM’s customers to integrate health systems in a department, a hospital, several hospitals, or across all health care providers in an entire region
  • Introduced Oracle Database to store clinical data, such as laboratory information, radiology reports, and various types of meta-information
  • Implemented Oracle WebLogic Server to provide users with a consistent view of updated, stored,key clinical information through a Web interface
  • Enabled CSAM’s customers to replace paper-based processes with electronic processes, enhancing workflow efficiency, decreasing lead times, and reducing costs
  • Provided users with access to patients’ overall medical histories, regardless of which hospitals and healthcare providers previously provided care, and gave patients the opportunity to access their own records
  • Ensured the solution complies with national laws, particularly regarding patient safety