RehabCare Leverages Force.com Platform to Build Custom Healthcare Application for use on Apple iPhone
May 26 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Built in just four days, the mobile cloud computing solution
shortens patient application processing time from a day or more to
just two hours SAN FRANCISCO, May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company,
today announced that RehabCare Group, Inc. (NYSE:RHB) has used the
Force.com platform to build a custom healthcare application to run
on its staff's Apple iPhones. Built in just four days, the
application is designed to enable RehabCare staff to dramatically
shorten the time it takes to process patient prescreens from as
many as 18 hours to less than sixty minutes. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) RehabCare
Group, Inc. is one of the 59,300 companies of all sizes, industries
and geographies that comprised the salesforce.com customer base as
of April 30, 2009. Revenue and subscribers will be recognized as
the service is delivered. "We have a multiple-step screening
process that helps ensure we match our services to our patients'
needs. Unfortunately this process was taking too much time and was
impacting our ability to admit patients quickly," said Dick Escue,
chief information officer at RehabCare. "Using Force.com, we were
able to design and build a solution to fit our exact needs in just
a matter of days. If we had tried this with .Net, we would have
faced at least three months of development time." RehabCare's
patient screening process involved completing an evaluation form
that was filled out manually by employees in the field. The
evaluations were then passed to a program director for review and,
finally, to a medical director for approval. With the Force.com
platform, RehabCare is able to replace this manual process with an
automated system run on employees' iPhones, thereby significantly
increasing its efficiency and meeting its goal of providing a
patient admission decision within an hour. Controls put in place on
the Force.com platform help ensure the protection of patient health
information and reduce concerns around unauthorized access to the
information. "In times like these, it's more important than ever
before to ensure our investments in technology directly support our
business goals. The Force.com platform proved to be an ideal way to
cost-effectively design and deploy an application that improves our
patient evaluation process, which benefits both our patients and
the company," added Escue. About the Force.com Platform and
AppExchange Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for
building and running business applications in the cloud. The
Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM applications, more
than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu,
and more than 110,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's
59,300 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and
Sprint Nextel. Force.com is the fastest platform for building and
deploying complex business applications. Unlike a stack of
disparate client/server hardware and software products, Force.com
unifies the development and deployment model from the database to
the device, allowing developers to easily assemble applications
with clicks, components and code, and then instantly deploy them on
salesforce.com's trusted global infrastructure. Customers and
partners are using Force.com to build all kinds of business
applications from supply chain management to compliance tracking,
brand management, accounts receivable, claims processing
applications and much more. Applications built on the Force.com
platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing
community through the Force.com AppExchange marketplace at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/. About RehabCare Established
in 1982, RehabCare is a leading provider of rehabilitation program
management services in partnership with over 1,200 hospitals and
skilled nursing facilities in 43 states. RehabCare also owns and
operates freestanding rehabilitation and long-term acute care
hospitals across the country. About salesforce.com Salesforce.com
is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company's portfolio
of Salesforce CRM applications, available at
http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways
that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers
across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com
platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) enables customers,
partners and developers to quickly build powerful business
applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud.
Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multi-tenant architecture,
Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer
success with cloud computing. As of April 30, 2009, salesforce.com
manages customer information for approximately 59,300 customers
including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan
Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks. Any unreleased
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