REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Informatica Corporation , a leading provider of data integration software, today announced that Children’s Hospital Boston, the world’s largest pediatric research enterprise, has standardized on the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform institution wide. Acting as an integration hub for large volumes of clinical, administrative and healthcare delivery information, PowerCenter is helping Children’s Hospital enhance its quality of care, engage in more effective research, and achieve new operational efficiencies that help reduce healthcare costs.
“Children’s Hospital is committed to being on the leading edge of healthcare delivery and pediatric research. PowerCenter is helping us maintain that position through better leveraging of information,” said Danny Shaw, chief knowledge officer at Children’s Hospital Boston. “Like many enterprises, we’re faced with expanding information needs and multiplying data sources, including outside sources due to the growing collaborative nature of research. PowerCenter gives us the integration power we need today and the flexible integration foundation we will need in the future.”
Children’s Hospital is using PowerCenter as the data integration platform for its enterprise data warehouse, which provides up-to-date consolidated information to hundreds of researchers, analysts concerned with driving continual quality improvements, and administrators requiring integrated business views and access to key performance indicators. Information in the data warehouse is integrated by PowerCenter from a large number of disparate sources, including admissions, scheduling, quality assurance, lab, billing, financial and HR applications; and, increasingly, collaborative research data from outside the institution.
PowerCenter is also helping accelerate Children’s Hospital’s efforts to modernize its clinical information environment. With many of the hospital’s legacy systems scheduled for imminent replacement, PowerCenter enables IT personnel to leverage codeless, point-and-click development and reusable objects to streamline migration efforts and reduce development and maintenance costs. As a result of eliminating the need to hand code each new interface to its data warehouse, new source systems can now be added to the information environment in a matter of days rather than multiple months.
“PowerCenter helps healthcare organizations consolidate their valuable information resources in order to drive more effective monitoring of operations, more efficient business and clinical processes, and better informed decisions,” said Paul Albright, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Informatica. “We’re pleased that a leader in its field such as Children’s Hospital has successfully implemented PowerCenter as a cornerstone for the ongoing modernization of its IT infrastructure and the successful harnessing of information for business value.”
Founded in 1869 as a 20-bed hospital for children, Children’s Hospital Boston today is a 300-bed comprehensive center for pediatric and adolescent health care grounded in the values of excellence in patient care and sensitivity to the complex needs and diversity of children and families. It is also the primary pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation is a leading provider of data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, integrate, visualize, and audit their enterprise information assets to help improve business performance, increase customer profitability, streamline supply chain operations and proactively manage regulatory compliance. More than 2,000 companies worldwide rely on Informatica for their end-to-end enterprise data integration needs. For more information, call 650-385-5000 (800-970-1179 in the U.S.), or visit http://www.informatica.com/.
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