Sanford Health is an integrated health system headquartered in the Dakotas. It is one of the largest health systems in the nation with 45 hospitals and nearly 300 clinics in nine states and four countries. Sanford Health’s 28,000 employees, including more than 1,300 physicians, make it the largest employer in the Dakotas. Their initiatives include global children’s clinics, genomic medicine and specialized centers researching cures for type 1 diabetes, breast cancer and other diseases.
Sanford World Clinic is the global arm of Sanford Health, originally created to provide primary care services for children, but eventually expanding to serve people of all ages. Broader primary care services, regenerative medicine, specialized procedures, weight loss programs, diabetes research and clinical education, are just a few of the specializations developed to serve populations around the world. The organization aims to make healthcare accessible to as many people as possible and is always expanding its scope of services to meet the unique needs of the areas they serve.
In this quest to provide healthcare to a global population, the models implemented at each location needed to be customized to meet the specific needs and opportunities presented in that market. The custom requirements had to be translated into a technology that would not only be the backbone of providing health care but also enable centralized control and supervision. Their search ended with blueEHR, an EHR system built on the blueBriX Platform.