SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Across the Veterans Administration Hospitals, expensive disposable and implantable equipment used for patients undergoing a variety of medical and surgical procedures is mismanaged with an archaic, paper-based inventory system. Due to the absence of current inventory information, existing inventory expires on the shelf, even as orders are placed for the same equipment again. Further, the lack of online access to information... more »

Within HHS-ACF, we have been able to reduce the amount of time we have spent with admin duties regarding the on/off boarding of employees, manage user accounts & contact information and reduce the amount of paperwork we deal with by 100% with the use of the ACF Contact List System (CLS).
Not only have we been able to reduce the time spent on administrative functions & paperwork but we have been able to control costs by... more »

Developments by companies utilizing cloud based computing (particularly Google) are resulting in an increasingly robust solution including enterprise class sercurity and online data storage. Firewall, IDS/IPS, Data Leakage Prevention, system wide applications, etc., can all be controlled "in the cloud" by connecting all remote users through dumb terminals. Dumb terminals allow users to connect to a central network without... more »