Avg sync latency
140ms
Integrations live
2,400+
When every minute is clinical.
A rural critical access hospital in eastern Tennessee running MEDITECH Expanse with a 2-person IT team.
Scenario
St. Clair Valley Medical Center had 6 separate data feeds that never talked to each other. Lab results took 45 minutes to reach the right clinician. The compliance officer kept a spreadsheet. The IT director had 87 open tickets.
| Scenario | Before Pulse | After Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Lab Results Routing | ✗Nurses fax lab results to the attending floor; critical values sit in the queue 45–90 min before anyone acts. | ✓ Pulse routes critical lab flags directly to the charge nurse's dashboard and sends an SMS to the on-call physician within 8 seconds of result sign-off.8s delivery |
| Medication Reconciliation | ✗Pharmacist manually re-keys discharge meds from the EHR into the pharmacy management system; ~12 errors per 100 reconciliations. | ✓ Bi-directional HL7 ADT/RDS feed eliminates re-keying; discrepancies flagged automatically before dispense.99.1% accuracy |
| Audit Trail | ✗Compliance officer pulls access logs from three separate systems the morning of a state survey — always finds gaps. | ✓ Unified audit log with 90-day retention, one-click HIPAA access report, pre-formatted for CMS submission.1-click export |
| Downtime Protocol | ✗EHR downtime triggers paper-based downtime procedures; reconciling paper records post-downtime takes 6–8 staff-hours. | ✓ Pulse caches last-known state locally; clinicians work from a read-only snapshot; records auto-reconcile on EHR restoration.<15 min recovery |
91%
reduction in critical alert latency
St. Clair went live on Pulse in 11 days. Critical lab values now reach the charge nurse in under 10 seconds. The compliance officer closed her spreadsheet on day 14.
Drowning in integration tickets.
A mid-size regional system in the Midwest running Epic with 14 third-party vendor integrations.
Scenario
Meridian Regional had built a Rube Goldberg of Rhapsody routes over 8 years. Their interface engine had 340 open tickets. Two engineers spent 90% of their time on maintenance, not improvement. The CMIO's dashboard refreshed every 4 hours.
| Scenario | Before Pulse | After Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Radiology Turnaround | ✗Radiology reports generated in PACS sit unread in a separate silo; hospitalists check PACS manually between rounds. | ✓ Pulse pushes finalized radiology reads into the EHR problem list and surfaces critical findings in the rounding dashboard.47% faster TAT |
| Vendor Integration Tickets | ✗IT team manages 340 open integration tickets across 14 vendor connections; average ticket age: 23 days. | ✓ Pulse's no-code mapping studio resolves 80% of mapping changes in under 4 hours without vendor involvement.80% self-serve |
| Compliance Readiness | ✗HIPAA risk assessment requires 3 weeks of manual data gathering from disparate systems; findings are already stale by submission. | ✓ Continuous compliance monitor tracks 47 HIPAA technical safeguards in real time; risk score updates daily.Daily risk score |
| Cross-Department Visibility | ✗ED physicians have no real-time view of inpatient bed availability; boarding times average 4.2 hours. | ✓ ADT feed + bed management integration gives ED a live capacity view; boarding time drops to 1.8 hours average.57% less boarding |
| Interface Engine Costs | ✗Legacy Rhapsody and Mirth Connect clusters require 2 FTE integration engineers to maintain; $480K annual infrastructure cost. | ✓ Pulse replaces both engines; managed cloud infrastructure; one integration engineer handles the full portfolio.$310K saved/yr |
$310K
annual infrastructure savings
Meridian replaced two legacy interface engines with Pulse in a 6-week phased migration. The IT team now handles the same integration portfolio with one engineer instead of two.
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One truth across nine time zones.
A multi-state health network spanning Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky running Epic, Cerner, and MEDITECH simultaneously.
Scenario
Ridgeline Health Network's acquisition strategy left them with three EHR platforms, nine state reporting obligations, and a network CMO who got her census data by email at 6 AM. Patient identity was a mess. Ransomware at one facility took 9 days to contain.
| Scenario | Before Pulse | After Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-Facility Patient Identity | ✗Each facility runs its own MPI; duplicate records average 3.8% across the network; incorrect merges cause medication errors. | ✓ Pulse's enterprise MPI service resolves patient identity across all facilities using probabilistic + deterministic matching; duplicate rate: 0.2%.0.2% duplicate rate |
| State-Level Reporting | ✗Compliance team manually compiles reportable disease data from 9 state health departments with different format requirements. | ✓ Pulse's regulatory adapter layer auto-formats and submits eCR, syndromic surveillance, and immunization data to all 9 states on schedule.9 states automated |
| Real-Time Census | ✗Network CMO receives a daily Excel census report emailed at 6 AM; data is 18 hours stale by the time it's read. | ✓ Executive dashboard shows live census, capacity, and acuity across all facilities; refreshes every 90 seconds.90s refresh cycle |
| Vendor Diversity | ✗Network runs Epic, Cerner, and MEDITECH across different facilities; no shared clinical data model; care gaps invisible. | ✓ Pulse normalizes all three EHR data streams into a unified FHIR R4 data lake; care gap alerts fire regardless of originating system.3 EHRs → 1 stream |
| Security Incident Response | ✗A ransomware event at one facility takes 9 days to contain because security teams can't isolate affected data flows fast enough. | ✓ Pulse's network topology map enables surgical isolation of compromised interfaces within 4 minutes; clean facilities stay operational.4-min isolation |
3 → 1
EHR data streams unified
Ridgeline's network CMO now watches a live dashboard. Patient identity duplicates dropped from 3.8% to 0.2%. When a security incident hit in Q3, affected interfaces were isolated in 4 minutes.
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