Client | UNC Healthcare, Transforming How Medical Staff Manage Digital Records

The FXN partnered with UNC Health Care System to build software to privately store patient records and streamline reporting.

Client

The UNC Health Care System is a not-for-profit integrated health care system, owned by the State of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. It exists to further the teaching mission of the University of North Carolina and to provide state-of-the-art patient care. Specialized patient care services include the Breast Center, Cardiovascular Program, Diabetes Care Center, Lung Center, Rehabilitation Center, Spine Center, Wound Management Program and Comprehensive Transplant Center.

Challenges & Opportunities

• No consistent mechanism for physicians to record patient information/notes.
• Extremely tedious maintenance of patient records, prescriptions and history.
• Access control and compliance with HIPAA standards.

Outcome

• A fully custom-built solution for physicians & doctors to record patient data
• Seamless integration with hospital’s billing systems and other patient management systems.
• Automatic integration of prescriptions with various pharmacies
• A repeatable deployment model for improvements to the application
• Ongoing development and testing services for over 15 years.

Services & technologies

• Full stack custom application development
• Development platform: IBM WebSphere, Java/J2EE development framework
• Databases: IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server
• Operating systems: IBM Mainframe, IBM A/S 400
• Project management, training and change management
• Test Management and Test Automation

Team

• Onsite (NC, US): Project manager, lead architect,
• Offsite (NC, US; Chennai, India): Development focal point, development team