Access to specialized applications directly out of Microsoft® Office

In the daily routine of a doctor or nurse, medical administration takes up a significant portion of the working day. Documentation of the patient treatment process needs to be continuous and traceable and must meet all the statutory and professional requirements. It is also the source of considerable additional administrative overheads which affects the amount of resources dedicated to actual medical treatment.

One of the biggest challenges for medical administration teams is to drive productivity improvements. This is often difficult to achieve because information is saved in different, unlinked applications and cannot be provided in real-time during the patient treatment process. The same goes for medical processes, where files, requests, orders, documents or forms must be processed with structured and unstructured data – and the data required is becoming increasingly complex. In order to be able to react quickly and efficiently to inquiries, information must be collected, saved and made available to a specific user at the right time and in the right place.

The Combionic Office Business Gateway allows users to access existing specialized applications such as ERP systems, hospital information systems, laboratory information systems, radiology information systems, PACS, etc. directly from familiar user interfaces, such as Microsoft® Office and Outlook. Information is provided in context and according to the authorization profiles, so hospital employees can access the up-to-date data they need from Microsoft® Office. In this way, better decisions can be made faster and medical documentation, such as doctor‘s notes, can be written quickly and more easily without any media discontinuities or reduced quality of the data.