[Johannesburg, 19 November 2012] -

The Western Cape Government (WCG), Department of Health, has been selected as a finalist in the 2012 OpenText GlobalStar Enterprise Awards, recognising customers across the globe for their outstanding efforts in deriving business value from innovative and successful OpenText deployments. IT solution provider and OpenText global alliance partner, Datacentrix, nominated the department for the awards.

The GlobalStar Enterprise Awards are handed out each year at the annual Enterprise World user conference, and Ian de Vega, director of information management, as a representative of Department of Health, will be travelling to Orlando, Florida for the ceremony in November this year.

The award categories are mapped to the business value drivers of Enterprise Information Management (EIM). EIM intensifies business insights, business impact and process velocity, without compromising information governance and information security. All GlobalStar Enterprise Awards entries are reviewed based on a need/value/benefit analysis and the judges have considered which solutions enable the greatest benefits to end-users, provide for improved productivity levels, demonstrate functionality and innovation and ensure potential for future growth.

According to Trish Dicks, national strategy manager: ECM public sector at Datacentrix, the new Khayelitsha Hospital in the Western Cape has implemented OpenText EIM as part of the drive to ensure that it can deliver a world-class patient-centric clinical service. "This project, which was implemented by Datacentrix, has created and delivered the capacity for Khayelitsha Hospital to convert its paper patient records into electronic format, thereby significantly reducing patient waiting time. In addition, doctors are now accessing these files electronically, among numerous other benefits.

"The ECM project at Khayelitsha Hospital has been a resounding success," adds Dicks. "Datacentrix is pleased to have been able to assist the hospital in improving the efficiency of its record-keeping, an issue with which many hospitals struggle. We certainly believe that, through this project, the Department of Health is a worthy contender for a GlobalStar award."

Datacentrix

Since listing on the JSE Stock Exchange in 1998, Datacentrix has become one of South Africa's leading empowered services-led solution integrators. The company's focus is the provision of infrastructure and business solutions, including cloud computing, high-end storage and security, as well as outsourcing and other related IT services, to the country's public and private sectors. Datacentrix is currently one of the most highly skilled and certified business partners for a number of leading international and local vendors.



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