Healthcare IT News - December 2007 - (Page 11)

www.HealthcareITNews.com December 2007 ■ Healthcare IT News 11 NEWSBRIEFS MoNtEFIoRE to Roll out opERatINg RooM tEchNology The Montefiore Medical Center, in New York City will roll out a perioperative information system to manage the clinical, administrative and financial functions of surgical care at each of its hospitals. The technology developed by Wakefield, Mass.-based Picis, is expected to streamline operating room workflow and simplify processes. The intent is to provide more time for staff to focus on improving medical outcomes and patient satisfaction, said Jack Wolf, chief information officer at Montefiore. IT helps Sharp, Mercy Health win coveted Baldriges. By BernIe MonegaIn, Editor WASHINGTON Hospitals in search of excellence – Sharp HealthCare in San Diego and Mercy Health System in Janesville, Wis. are among the winners of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award for 2007. Though the Baldrige Award process measures every aspect of an organization, “We believe we are technolog y and chaNgINg how it is employed, healthcare for the play a critical role in the evaluation. BEttER . . .” The Baldrige is – Mike Murphy billed as the nation’s Mike Murphy highest presidential physicians and honor for quality and organiza- patients,” said Mike Murphy, tional performance excellence. president and CEO of Sharp “Sharp has been on a six-year HealthCare, which is one of the journey to transform the health- largest healthcare systems in care experience for employees, Southern California. “The Baldrige criteria and our unwavering commitment to quality, satisfaction and continuous improvement Javon Bea have helped us toward our vision to be the best place to work, practice medicine and receive care, and ultimately, to be the best healthcare system BalDrIge see page 13 QuEENS hoSpItal to tIghtEN REvENuE MaNagEMENt Parkway Hospital, a 251-bed community hospital in Queens, N.Y. will spend $1.4 million to install a patient management system developed by Keane Inc., based in San Ramon, Calif. Hospital executives say the Web-based system, called Patcom, will play a vital role in improving critical business operations of Parkway Hospital’s revenue cycle process across multiple departments. The three-year project includes upgrading Parkway Hospital’s accounts payable, general ledger, pharmacy and laboratory products. $1M in grants, It awarded to Lucile Packard PALO ALTO, CA Intermountain shows its ‘Moxie’ Salt Lake City healthcare system enters Stage 4 of automation project with GE. By JoHn anDrews, Contributing Editor BARRINGTON, IL By Molly MerrIll, Contributing Writer NEW JERSEy hoSpItal tIghtENS accESS SEcuRIty Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, N.J., with 520 beds and 2,500 employees, has rolled out technology to strengthen access security across the organization. Englewood has automated access to Web, desktop and legacy applications, using a combination of single signon and employee RFID badges for strong authentication. Redwood City, Calif.-based Encentuate Inc. provides Englewood with session management and fast user switching, as well as secure remote access. – Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital’s pediatric care facility has received technology and grants valued at $1 million to improve its quality of patient care. The children’s hospital will receive nearly $580,000 worth of HP equipment, which will range from notebook and desktop PCs and monitors to printers, aiding the hospital’s Clinical Tr a n s f o r m a t i o n P r o g r a m through surgical and intensive care functions and the implementation of a comprehensive health record system. In addition, the HewlettPackard Company Foundation has provided a cash grant of $500,000 to jumpstart a progressive research project that will bring together leaders in quality, safety and bioinformatics to achieve faster, safer and personalized patient care. ■ More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: LucILe 1207 ShRINERS hoSpItalS to Roll out pacS at 22 FacIlItIES Shriners Hospitals for Children will roll out new technology across its 22 hospitals. Shriners has contracted with Atlanta-based McKesson to implement a picture archiving and communication system, or PACS, as well as technology services to create a secondary data center for improved disaster recovery. McKesson’s Horizon medical imaging system will enable radiologists, surgeons and other caregivers at Shriners Hospitals and its affiliates, to electronically capture, retrieve, view and store medical images, from ultrasound to multi-slice CT, at multiple locations. More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: HoSPItaLS 1207 l Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City is poised to launch a clinical IT system tailored for its emergency department. – The rubber is ready to hit the road for Intermountain Healthcare’s ambitious electronic medical record installation project with GE Healthcare, Marc Probst, the CIO of the Salt Lake City-based integrated health network, said during a recent event at GE headquarters here. Probst said Intermountain is ready to launch Moxie, an EMR system configured for the emergency room, with physician and nurse charting scheduled to be added in March. The implementa- Marc Probst tion represents Stage 4 of the alliance’s ongoing EMR project, which consolidates all operating platforms into one – GE’s Centricity Enterprise. Already the third stage has generated between $2 million and $11 million in annual savings, Probst said. Stage 4, which includes standardized terminology, computerized protocols, automated adverse drug event surveillance and ordering decision support, can incrementally add $12 million in savings, “and we’re way above that,” he said. In 2005, GE Healthcare and Intermountain MoxIe see page 13 Healthcare It key to patient-centered care By DIana Manos, Senior Editor NEW YORK – A new report by the DEtERMININg BED occupaNcy Bed huddles Electronic bed boards Manual bed boards Facility summaries Bed management dashboards Housekeeping reports e l Connect: GraPHS 1207 SouRCE: 2007 NATIoNAL SuRVEY oN PATIENT THRouGHPuT AND CAPACITY CHALLENGES 8% 18% 23% 29% 38% 38% N=200 l Commonwealth Fund concludes that hospitals and other providers can promote patient-centered care by employing healthcare information technology and effective leadership. The Picker Institute, a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to the advancement of patient-centered care, commissioned the report titled PatientCentered Care: What Does It Take? It said organizations that want to achieve rapid and widespread patient-centered care also need: ■ vision; ■ organization-wide communication; ■ involvement of patients PaTIenT see page 12 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8186 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8189

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