A Columbus, Ohio-based healthcare data management startup is expanding its geographic boundaries, having recently inked a deal with an eight-hospital New Mexico health system.
Health Care DataWorks‘s multi-year deal with Presbyterian Healthcare Services represents the farthest west that the emerging health IT company has pushed in its quest to acquire new customers. Presbyterian is the fifth-largest health organization to become a Health Care DataWorks customer, said Van Chappell, the Columbus company’s vice president of sales.
“To secure these contracts we have competed against a number of larger, more-established companies,” Chappell said. “This latest agreement puts us one step closer to developing what we consider a critical mass in terms of client engagements.”
Through its hospitals and clinics, Presbyterian is the largest healthcare provider in New Mexico, according to Health Care DataWorks.
With its enterprise data warehouse, Health Care DataWorks aims to help hospitals organize and combine the vast amounts of data its clients generate, such as patient records, billing information, scheduling systems and purchasing records.
The idea is that, by getting a better handle on all of the disparate data flowing through their organizations, hospital executives will be able to make more-informed decisions that could lead to efficiency gains, quality improvement and cost reduction.
The company licensed its software from Ohio State University Medical Center and a few of its executives are former OSUMC employees.
