An Alfresco Solution to a Cancerous Problem
Jeremy Day – McKesson Specialty Health
As one of the top-ranked electronic health records companies for oncology, according to Black Book™ Market Research, McKesson knows how intensive document and records management can be. Jeremy Day, Director of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance at US Oncology Research/McKesson Specialty Health spoke on how Zia created an Alfresco-based solution for McKesson that vastly decreased the time spent on the paperwork for new clinical research applications.
Before implementing Alfresco, the average amount of time it took to complete an application packet was around 35 days—from creating forms and sending them back and forth to necessary parties for their manual signatures, to resending if there were any errors. After three months with their new ECM system, McKesson is experiencing a nearly flawless business process—including electronic signatures—that has cut down dramatically on the time it takes to collect necessary signatures. Some trial packets are now complete in just two weeks, with further gains expected in the coming months.