Healthcare IT News - August 2008 - (Page 13)

www.HealthcareITNews.com August 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 13 NEWSBRIEFS BRIgham aNd WomEN’S REtoolS tV NEtWoRk More than 700 patients at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital will be able to watch educational videos and movies and listen to music at their bedside, thanks to a deal struck between the hospital and LodgeNet Healthcare. LodgeNet Healthcare, a division of the LodgeNet Interactive Corp., a Sioux Falls, S.D.-based provider of media and connectivity solutions for the healthcare and hospitality fields, is redesigning the hospital’s patient TV network and installing the LodgeNetRX Interactive Patient Television System. Virtual hospital for all to see in Second Life By RIchaRd PIzzI, Associate Editor OJAI, CA – Palomar Pomerado Health of San Diego, Calif., plans to open a new, high-tech hospital in 2011, but according to Palomar’s chief technology officer, an IT-driven community outreach effort has already begun. “We want to break the mold on leveraging technology in the new facility, so it made sense to build a virtual model of the hospital online,” said Orlando Portale, Palomar’s CTO. Portale spoke last month at the 2008 Physician-Computer Connection Symposium put on by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems. PaloMaR see page 14 A rendering of the Palomar Pomerado’s new high-tech hospital in San Diego. Mercy Medical intact post flood By BeRNIe MoNegaIN, Editor CEDAR RAPIDS, IA NEW YoRk mEdIcal cENtER updatES SuRgIcal SYStEmS It Elmira, N.Y.-based Arnot Ogden Medical Center, a not-for-profit, 256-bed medical facility serving southern New York and northern Pennsylvania, intends to replace its perioperative system with new operating room software. The facility, with more than 300 physicians from more than 50 specialties, has selected technology developed by Atlanta-based Surgical Information Systems. The SIS Essentials system will replace Arnot Ogden’s current technology from Mediware Information Systems. phIllY hEalth SYStEm addS EmERgENcY dEpaRtmENt It Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, a major health system with 957 acute care beds across four locations in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, plans to implement a new emergency department information system at all of its ED facilities. Jefferson officials have signed a deal with the Somerset, N.J.-based Wellsoft Corp. for that company’s EDIS software. Features to be implemented include patient tracking, nursing and physician documentation, electronic orders and results, image capture and risk management. – Flood waters were rising, patients were being evacuated, and to make things worse Mercy Medical Center vice president and CIO Jeff Cash happened to be in Europe. “Then lighting came, and the city lost power,” says Rich Head, director of technical services at Mercy, a 370-bed hospital 10 blocks from the Cedar River. Amid the chaos on that Friday, June 13, it became clear that the hospital’s communications system was going under water. Yet, a couple of weeks later the hospital was back to nearly normal operations, with its IT and communications systems intact. The water rose to five feet throughout the facility, said Cash. The entire IT staff was focused on helping with the evacuation. Cash credits Qwest Communications employees with helping Mercy keep the hospital’s critical network infrastructure intact, and essential and critical communications and data access operational. The technicians from Qwest rolled up their sleeves and went to work moving essential network hardware away from the water. Mercy uses Qwest iQ Jeff Cash Physicians raise doubts about ‘most wired’ list By RIchaRd PIzzI, Associate Editor OJAI, CA – Physician IT leaders are questioning the significance of the thE NEWS: “Most Wired ➔ Docs raise Hospitals” concerns about list published ‘most wired’ list. annually by What It H o s p i t a l s ➔ mEaNS: and Health Focus on IT Networks. might prove One physimisleading, they cian calls it say. “dangerous.” The publisher and sponsors of the list defend the data. “Just how dangerous is this report?” asked William Bria, MD, chairman of the AMDIS board of advisers and chief medical information officer at Shriners Hospitals for Children. Bria and a panel of physicians discussed the list last month at the 2008 Physician-Computer Connection Symposium put on by AMDIS, the Association of wIRed see page 18 Flood waters rise to a flag hanging from a porch in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, during the June flood that forced the evacuation of Mercy Medical Center, where IT played a role in the hospital’s quick recovery. Networking services to connect voice and data communications for the hospital’s 20-location network. “While we needed them, they were always MeRcy see page 16 kENtuckY hoSpItal to alIgN INtERNal It WIth phYSIcIaNS Lourdes Hospital, a 389-bed regional referral center in western Kentucky, plans to implement a single technology solution to enable physicians to access and evaluate patient information across disparate healthcare IT systems. The hospital’s leadership team selected the A3Align Solution from the Nashville, Tenn.-based Informatics Corporation of America. In the initial phase, ICA will aggregate patient information from existing clinical systems, including Meditech Magic, Chart Maxx, PICIS, MIDAS, OBIX, Allscripts, Ulrich and Fuji. More at healthcareITNews.com e connect: HoSPItaLS 0808 Ochsner Health System rolls out new platform for interoperability By healThcaRe IT News Editors NEW SERVIcE oRIENtEd aRchItEctuRE What statement best describes the state of your SOA implementation? l – Ochsner Health System is set to deploy an interoperability platform to provide 15,000 users, including 1,500 physicians, with a detailed view of patient data from multiple databases. Ochsner physicians will be able to access patient information through a portal from anywhere – at the point-of care, from home, the office or while traveling. Ochsner tapped Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Carefx for its platform. ORLEANS “Carefx’s technology furthers Ochsner’s goal of improving clinical care and efficiency in the post-Katrina era,” says Lynn Witherspoon, MD, Ochsner’s System vice president and CIO. “With the ability to access all of a patient’s information, anytime, from across the Ochsner system, physicians can improve their medical decision-making and obtain a more complete picture of their patients’ health.” ■ More at healthcareITNews.com e connect: ocHSNer 0808 l e l connect: GraPHS 0808 SOURCE: SOA gOVERNANCE USER SURVEY http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9683 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9682

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