Healthcare IT News - January 2008 - (Page 13) www.HealthcareITNews.com January 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 13 NEWSBRIEFS NEW JERSEy HoSpItal moNItoRS pERINatal caRE Lourdes Health System of New Jersey has implemented a clinical workflow management system across its perinatal care facilities to better monitor care. Lourdes latest implementation of CliniComp’s Essentris perinatal solution follows earlier deployments in the special care nursery at Lourdes Medical in Willingboro and the intensive care nursery at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden. Next Lourdes Health will install the system in Camden’s outpatient side. Essentris perinatal provides integrated modules for fetal surveillance, maternal charting and neonatal (level 3) ICU management. Small Minnesota hospitals building HIE By rIcharD PIzzI, Associate Editor – There are many challenges confronting physicians who work in the small Critical Access Hospitals on the prairies of Southwestern Minnesota. In an ideal world, quick and easy access to patient medical records shouldn’t be one of them. If Mark Roisen has his way, easy access to patient records will not be a problem for doctors in three of those rural Minnesota MADISON, MN communities. Roisen is executive director of the Lac qui Parle Health Network, a hospital services cooperative representing three Critical Access Hospitals along the Minnesota-South Dakota border. Lac qui Parle is building an interoperable electronic health record that will link providers across various rural care settings by early 2009. The Lac qui Parle network consists of Johnson Memorial Hospital in Dawson, Minn., Appleton Area Health Services, and Madison Lutheran Home. “We need an integrated electronic health record for clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes that will be interoperable with our referring hospitals’ systems,” said Roisen. Three rural Minnesota hospitals have formed the Lac Qui Parle Network to begin the building of a healthcare information exchange. “We want a system that delivers a health record which follows a MInnesoTa see page 14 St. Luke’s boosts productivity By Molly MerrIll, Contributing Writer HOUSTON SoutH caRolINa FacIlIty REvampS data pRocESSINg InterMedical Hospital, a 35-bed, long-term acute care facility based in Columbia, S.C., will replace its existing manual data processing and reporting to enable the facility to conduct referral tracking and patient accounting. Healthcare Management Systems, Inc., will supply the hospital with a full suite of financial software aimed at providing for the future growth of the hospital. alaBama HoSpItal automatES WoRkFloW Springhill Medical Center of Mobile, Ala., has taken steps to automate the center’s medication management workflow. Springhill has activated Eclipsys’ Sunrise Pharmacy, as part of an upgrade to Sunrise Clinical Manager 4.5. The center is using the integration between Eclipsys’ Knowledge-Based CPOE system and Sunrise Pharmacy to make the medication management process safer and more efficient, helping to improve patient-care outcomes throughout the center. oHIo HoSpItal tRackS mEdIcal EquIpmENt Southern Ohio Medical Center, a 222-bed acute care hospital, has implemented a medical device tracking system throughout its facility. The Radianse real-time location platform and Radianse Reveal asset tracking will locate and manage 1,600 medical devices and equipment across four floors throughout the hospital. SOMC also expects to use additional Radianse Reveal applications to improve patient flow and overall safety from admission to discharge when it expands it facilities. SOMC is adding more than 100 rooms, a new emergency services area as well as same day surgery and other facility and service additions. More at healthcareITnews.com e connect: HoSPItaLS 0108 – St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System has seen an increase in productivity since deploying a virtual private network. St. Luke’s recently expanded the network to support up to 900 laptops with plans to move its EKG equipment over as well. St. Luke’s began its relationship with NetMotion Wireless in 2001 during a time when its hospital workers were experiencing connection losses with their handheld PDAs. The hospital began the deployment of NetMotion’s virtual private network, Mobility XE, throughout its IT departments to maintain and optimize wireless technologies. Mobility XE is a software-only mobile VPN that provides secure, continuous remote access to network resources and applications from mobile devices over any wired or wireless IP-based network. Implementation of Mobility XE at St. Luke’s involved deploying server software within the IT departments and client software on laptops, tablets and handheld devices. “Every minute a nurse spends fussing with a wireless device is a minute not spent on nursing, “ said Tom Johnston, senior vice president of products and marketing for NetMotion. Mobility XE makes it possible for St. Luke’s Survey takes ‘snapshot’ of U.S. hospitals healThcare IT news Editors BLOOMFIELD, CT Gene Gretzer, above, senior analyst and wireless project leader at St. Luke’s, says St. Luke’s decision to build – and now expand its virtual private network, or VPN, has really paid off. The more connected everyone is, the higher the productivity, he says. IT staff to stay better informed because they can centrally manage all wireless devices being used throughout the hospital in real-time. Johnston said that they could even determine sTlUKes see page 43 – Golden Consulting Group is poised to launch a survey aimed at providing a snapshot of hospital information systems deployed around the country. The five min- Pat Salem ute survey will also address future IT priorities, IT staffing and capital budget trends, said Patricia C. Salem, vice president of healthcare planning and business intelligence for Bloomfield. Conn.-based Golden Consulting Group. Golden Consulting, a partner of Business Objects, provides hospitals with healthcare business intelligence and planning and performance measurement consulting. GolDen see page 15 Data farming helps hospital keep nurses at bedside System used in combat now helps nurses’ workflow By DIana Manos, Senior Editor MEMPHIS, TN l - Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has joined the University of Memphis Center for Healthcare Technology on a research program aimed at helping nurses do their work. The research method, known as “data farming,” uses computer simulation to analyze thousands of nurse workflow scenarios and find ways to apply healthcare IT and physical layouts, increasing the capacity of a nurse to be at bedside. According to W. Joseph Ketcherside, MD, senior vice president and chief medical informatics officer at MLH, data farming was originally FarMInG see page 15 25% of all resondents have a nurse informatics position in their facilities vs. 39% of all respondents in 2006 32% of organizations with more than 1,000 employees have a nurse informatics position As expected, organ izations with nursing informatics professionals are more likely to involve a representative from the nursing team in the IT decision and implementation process NuRSE INput oFtEN Not SougHt FoR It dEcISIoNS SOURCE: NURSES TALK TECH 2007 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8413 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8414 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8415 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8416 http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8417
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