Slow medical record load times were hurting ER and overall patient care hospital-wide.
Ryan Barker was responsible for overseeing the MEDITECH EHR systems at Hancock Regional. As he put it, “You can imagine how dire the situation can be, particularly in the ER. My users can’t spare precious seconds waiting for data to load and records to save.”
Ryan was considering doing what most admins do when facing a performance issue – throw more hardware at the problem. While considering a forklift upgrade of the SAN that wasn’t in budget, Ryan had heard about what V-locity® I/O reduction software had done to accelerate EHR at other MEDITECH hospitals.
Since V-locity is free to evaluate and tailored specifically for MEDITECH, he figured he had nothing to lose.
Here’s a direct quote from the full case study:
Over the first two weeks of running V-locity on all the MEDITECH VMs, Ryan requested several tests from the Core Team, all reporting impressive results. “The feedback I’m getting from the Team is very positive; they are seeing major improvement,” says Ryan. “Before V-locity, the EDM tracker took seven seconds to load two patients. With V-locity it’s now taking only four seconds to load six patients.” Ryan continues, “Compiling a list of 16 patients took 13 seconds. With V-locity it now takes only five seconds to load 19. That’s a major improvement when you’re talking about a busy day in the ER.”
Hancock Regional was able to put an end to performance issues, defer upgrading their SAN and now looking to deploy V-locity on other I/O intensive applications. In addition, since V-locity comes with the MediWrite™ engine for MEDITECH, the FAL growth issue from severe fragmentation is no longer a risk to downtime. MEDITECH requires all 5x and 6x users to have a FAL remediation plan and recommends V-locity for its real-time and automatic FAL remediation capabilities.
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