With thousands of documents, policies, procedures, order-sets, protocols and by-laws, requiring annual, multi-discipline input, the healthcare industry DEPENDS heavily on collaboration, but current methods of collaboration are outdated, inefficient, and expensive.

HealthGate has spent the past 15 years serving more than 700 healthcare organizations with technologies, products and services designed to centralize, simplify and streamline the document lifecycle and collaboration process.

With a rich and proven domain expertise and web-based collaboration technology, many healthcare institutions rely completely on HealthGate to:

• Cut policy review time by 1/2
• Cut costs associated with document collaboration by 2/3
• Manage complex governance issues throughout all layers of organization
• Achieve Joint Commission Compliance
• Begin collaboration immediately, with little or no training
• Better manage committees and quickly cut through layers of bureaucracy as well as technical impediments and geographical challenges

Benefits of document management and collaboration in healthcare:

• Better collaboration and shortened cycle and approval times
• Version control and audit trails
• Protection of sensitive information (HIPAA compliance)
• One-of-a-kind, built-in governance tools for patient safety and quality assurance initiatives
• Less paper consumption
• Less face-to-face meeting time