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Fairview Health Services Purchases Avega's Alliance Decision Support System, Alliance Enterprise Reporting System and myAlliance Portal

Posted on: Tuesday, 3 January 2006, 06:00 CST

Avega Health Systems is pleased to announce that Fairview Health Services located in Minneapolis, MN has recently purchased Alliance Decision Support System, Alliance Enterprise Reporting System, and myAlliance Portal from Avega.

Fairview Health Services is a leader in clinical excellence and innovation. Their partnership with the doctors of University of Minnesota Physicians and the Academic Health Center puts them at the forefront of medical research and innovative patient treatments. The University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview was listed in the US News and World Report's 2005 Top Hospital rankings in seven specialty areas, more than any other Twin Cities hospital. Fairview Ridges Hospital and Fairview Southdale Hospital are Health Grades top hospitals. Fairview nurses have been designated Minnesota Hospital Association Health Care Provider of the Year for the last three consecutive years. Today Fairview comprises 7 hospitals, 31 primary care clinics, 25 specialty clinics, 5 urgent care clinics, and almost 19,000 employees.

According to Dan Fromm, Fairview's Vice President, Finance, "Our decision to utilize Avega's capability was made so we can better monitor and improve our operations in a very dynamic industry. In today's environment, using advanced technology to provide important information to decision makers is critical to providing high quality and cost effective patient care. We believe the capability provided by Avega's suite of products will assist us in accomplishing that."

The Alliance Suite integrates financial, clinical, and administrative information to support decision-making across the healthcare enterprise. Combining OLAP and Ad-Hoc reporting with a web-based distribution tool, Alliance helps you improve clinical performance, control costs, manage and negotiate contracts, develop your budget and analyze productivity across one organization or many.

Avega is celebrating 22 years as healthcare's first choice for decision makers. Avega's award-winning Alliance Suite supports the decision support, enterprise-wide reporting, data warehousing and operational support needs of both providers and payers. In addition to its corporate office in El Segundo, CA, Avega maintains an office in Nashville, TN.

Source: Business Wire

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