Overview

A medical complex might not be the first place you would expect to find the world’s largest collection of post-war Dutch art treasures, but then Amsterdam’s Academic Medical Center (AMC) is no ordinary hospital. In fact, the AMC is Holland’s premier medical center and one of the country’s largest teaching hospitals. Like the MaRS Centre in Toronto, Canada and other similar medical research and innovation campuses around the globe, the AMC strives to be ground zero for the next generation of medical discoveries and biotech breakthroughs. The AMC is not on the leading edge, it IS the leading edge. However, the document workflow for the electronic patient records needed a few touch-ups here and there.

Challenge

Avoid requiring client machines to launch Microsoft Word by finding a simple but powerful tool that could convert RTF files to PDF.

Solution

Express Server is now handling the document conversion process of AMC, which allow users to view patient files using the AZD (AMC Zorg Desktop) client.

AMC is also making use of Express Server to overcome a simple but highly sensitive problem. Adlib’s PDF overlay features allow AMC to distinguish between the viewing of the original version on screen and the printing of an “overlayed” version with dynamically generated headers and footers to identify who printed the PDF and the date and time it was printed.

Benefits

• Integrated simultaneously with multiple document repositories running on different operating systems
• Converting RTF, HTML, plain text and Word to PDF without the need for the native application
• Automated document publishing - merging, splitting, stamping, form filling and security
• No longer dependant on large resource-hogging applications like Word, Firefox & Acrobat
• Decreased IT spend and time spent managing systems and maintaining PCs