CHC Selects ViaWest for HealthSync Initiative

ViaWest, a provider of managed hosting solutions, has announced that Cascade Healthcare Community has employed ViaWest’s colocation and managed services to support its new initiative, HealthSync, which will integrate the flow of patient information and IT services in Central Oregon hospitals.

The HealthSync project will improve patient safety and care throughout Central Oregon by establishing an interconnected system that will streamline processes and contain all necessary health information in one place. The initiative will automate processes involving patient registration, billing, human resources, general accounting, lab, pharmacy, radiology, nurse/physician orders and documentation and surgical services. Since Cascade Healthcare Community’s (CHC) internal data center could not support a project of this scale and magnitude, and to minimize costs, the company chose to deploy the HealthSync infrastructure in a ViaWest datacenter.

Marilynn Black, senior vice president of information services for CHC, said: “We selected ViaWest over others in the region based on its ability to implement our services within an aggressive time frame and their reputation as a secure, first-class data center in Oregon. After working with ViaWest for the past several months, we are extremely happy with the results we are seeing and with their flexibility, responsiveness and attentiveness to our needs.”