by Rebecca Walker — July 26, 2010&7mdash;North Shore-LIJ Health System has selected Skire Inc.’s Unifier solution to help manage its five-year, $2 billion capital improvement program.
Unifier will seamlessly work within all of North Shore-LIJ’s construction business processes, including controlling budget and cash flow, tracking contracts, and managing schedules while creating transparency into its project portfolio.
North Shore-LIJ is the second largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system in the nation. Serving over seven million people, North Shore-LIJ is the ninth-largest employer in New York City and the largest on Long Island, with a workforce of about 42,000.
Approximately 300 projects are underway at any particular time within North Shore-LIJ, which consists of hospitals, long-term care facilities, a research institute, trauma centers, home health agencies and outpatient centers. With such a large organization, it is imperative that a system is in place to deliver visibility and control over projects, ensuring all capital improvement initiatives are staying on schedule and within budget, notes Skire.
North Shore-LIJ was previously using a limited project management tool to track budgets, but realized it needed a more robust, multi-purpose solution that could control additional business processes. Through a meticulous selection process, North Shore-LIJ ultimately chose Skire’s Unifier because of the flexibility and sophisticated workflow it offered in addition to its established user-base within the healthcare industry. The solution will be delivered through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.
The selection of Unifier by North Shore-LIJ Health System further establishes Skire as a leading technology provider to the healthcare industry. North Shore-LIJ, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital and many others rely on Skire’s Unifier to provide best-in-class project controls capabilities enabling them to improve the predictability of major projects across the paradigm of cost, scope and schedule, says the company.
For more information, see the Skire Web site.
