Published on December 28, 2009
Geonetric News Release
Geonetric Develops Improved Employee Intranet for Abington Health
Abington Health's new intranet enhances organizational communication and improves access to information. 
Cedar Rapids, IA - December 28, 2009- When the newly formed health system, Abington Health, needed to upgrade its flagship hospital's intranet and integrate employees from the recently acquired Lansdale Hospital, it turned to Geonetric, its online solutions provider. The health system had outgrown its current intranet and needed to better meet the needs of its 6,400 employees.
"It was important to develop an organization-wide resource for internal communication and information," said Mary Thomson, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Abington Health. "And since another community hospital had joined our system, we needed to accommodate those employees as well. This gave us the opportunity to pull many stand alone sites into a central location. Geonetric helped us develop an intranet that is intuitively organized and improves access to essential information across the system."
Abington Health branded its new intranet "The Bing" - a play on the hospital's nickname. While developing The Bing, Abington Health's Web team took the opportunity to re-evaluate the organization's document structure and decided to implement Geonetric's Web-based policy and procedure manager to better manage and organize important documents. Other features of the intranet include a unique approach to content organization, using tabs to separate organizational information from clinical information. The site also features an employee spotlight.
"Our current intranet was no longer meeting our organizational needs," says Alison Ferren, Vice President of Information Technology/Chief Information Officer at Abington Health. "With our current public website built on Geonetric's VitalSite technology it only made sense for us to build our intranet on the same software, ensuring consistency and making it easier for our Web team to manage the site."
About Abington Health
Abington Health is the umbrella organization that encompasses its flagship hospital, Abington Memorial Hospital, in Abington and Lansdale Hospital in Hatfield Township. Abington Health entities also include convenient outpatient facilities, Abington Health Center - Schilling Campus in Willow Grove and Abington Health Center - Warminster Campus in Bucks County. Together, these facilities serve more than 44,000 inpatients, 123,000 emergency patients and over 560,000 outpatient visits annually. Also included is Abington Health Physicians, a network of specialists and primary care physicians employed by Abington Memorial Hospital and Lansdale Hospital. All told, Abington Health's medical staff consists of more than 1,400 primary care physicians and medical and surgical specialists, as well as over 125 physicians-in-training within five residency programs. Abington Health employs over 6,400 employees, making it one of the largest employers in Montgomery County.
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