Case Study: Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital achieves instant, secure, HIPAA-ready reporting with Redwood Software's Redwood Reporting

Instant, secure access to cost effective reports empowers hospital decision-makers

Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital, the largest non-profit community hospital in Middle Tennessee with 683 licensed beds and more than 2,800 medical staff across 30+ specialties, struggled with slow, manual report processing. Managers and finance staff spent hours each day decollating, splitting, converting, printing and distributing thousands of pages from the data center during close periods, creating delays, high labor costs and exposure to HIPAA compliance risk.

The hospital deployed Redwood Reporting to automate report collection, decollation and secure electronic distribution from IBM mainframe and AIX applications into a centralized repository. The solution gives 200+ users across 50+ departments near-instant access to roughly 3,000 new documents monthly (tens of thousands annually), streamlines month-end processing, reduces manual errors and supports audit-ready tracking for HIPAA compliance while delivering measurable efficiency and ROI.

Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital

Jim Drew

IT Manager