
RehabCare
Cloud Story: Cloud Strategy
Business Need: Utilize Cloud to Support Healthcare RegulationsAppirio Solution: Custom Apps to Support Core Processes
- Utilize Cloud technologies to support the on-going changes with Healthcare regulations, and the requirement to support Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
- Appirio has been consistently involved with Rehabcare Group's Cloud initiatives since spring of 2009
- The main project to date has been to provide mobile solution to RehabCare's skilled nursing personnel to support on-time treatment delivery
- Through 2010, Appirio is involved in a large program implementing Salesforce and Google technology across multiple lines of business within Rehabcare. Our projects include extending Salesforce's Sales Cloud and custom development on Force.com to build applications
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"We knew we wanted to leverage the Cloud and Consumer Technology. We knew we wanted to build iOS applications that leveraged a Salesforce.com backend, but we needed a partner who could help us get there. We needed a partner who was creative yet practical. A partner who knew the latest in cloud-based technology and knew how to leverage that technology to great incredible efficiencies. We found that partner in Appirio. Appirio brought an all-star team together to help us build new applications on the cloud that helped us deliver care faster than ever before. If you are looking for a true partner, one that is defining best practices when building custom applications in the cloud...you need to choose Appirio."
CIO at RehabCare
In the News
Cloud computing, once an object of skepticism, even taunts, is taking center stage at a handful of companies. RehabCare Group, a 28-year-old provider of therapeutic services, is using hosted software and an unlikely device--the Apple iPod Touch--to make its field workforce of 11,000 physical therapists more effective.
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Appirio has selected RehabCare as Cloud Pioneer of the Year, an annual award given by Appirio to companies and individuals that demonstrate leadership in cloud computing initiatives and a commitment to moving their business forward using public cloud platforms. RehabCare's CIO and Vice President of Information Services Honored for Using Cloud and Mobile Technologies to Improve Patient Care and Transform an Industry.
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2010 Cloud Pioneers of the Year, Dick Escue and Jayson Chitwood
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