Healthcare IT News - December 2007 - (Page 13)

www.HealthcareITNews.com hoSpItalS & IDNs December 2007 ■ Healthcare IT News 13 MoxIe Continued from page 11 announced a multi-year technology development collaboration to develop an “enterprise clinical information system.” The partners have invested a lot of time, money, personnel and resources on the initiative, with GE alone spending $250 million and deploying 300 engineers for the project. “GE and Intermountain were on a collision course – sharing a vision of what needs to happen,” Probst said. “We are following the same synergistic path.” Probst concedes more challenges lie ahead, such as figuring out how workflow and computerized physician order entry will fit into the system. He’s confident, though, that his team’s “passion for coded data and standard terminology” will produce a more sophisticated information processing and delivery infrastructure. “There is a great amount of clinical success tied to the ability to use data,” he said. “Our objective is to take the goodness of these systems to the world.” ■ More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: MoxIe 1207 Nurses say they could make IT work better By DIana Manos, senIor eDITor – Leaders from the American Academy of Nurses are calling for greater awareness of how healthcare IT can be designed with the nurse in mind. Healthcare IT solutions could better be applied to nurses’ work, thus increasing time spent at the bedside, according to a report released last month. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the study WASHINGTON Technology Targets: A Synthesized Approach for Identifying and Fostering Technological Solutions to Workflow Inefficiencies on Medical/ Surgical Units. Linda Burnes Bolton, president of AAN, said improvement to a nurse’s practice environment would increase patient safety and help to retain nurses. Bolton said healthcare IT can help nurses dispense medication and check on patients, but only when the IT is designed Pamela Cipriano, Some nurses intuitively for nurses. chief clinical officer find healthcare It Otherwise, nurses will at the University “go around” the tech- is not designed to of Virginia Health nology and not use it. help them do their Systems and a fellow The AAN study surof the Academy, said jobs. veyed teams of providinitial findings show ers at 25 hospitals and healthcare that some nurses find healthcare systems between March 2006 and IT is not designed to help them do May 2007 to find ways healthcare their jobs. ■ IT could improve workflow and More at HealthcareITnews.com prevent medical errors. e lConnect: NurSeS 1207 l BalDrIge Continued from page 11 in the universe. We believe we are changing healthcare for the better, and the Baldrige evaluation process and recognition have fanned the flames of enthusiasm to continue on our quest.” At the forefront of Sharp’s commitment to excellence is The Sharp Experience, said Murphy, a sweeping performance improvement initiative launched in 2001. The award “celebrates our strength as a system and recognizes our unwavering commitment to organizational excellence and our Mission of “providing exceptional healthcare services resulting in healing in the broadest sense,” said Mercy Health System president and CEO, Javon R. Bea. Other hospital organizations have been honored by Baldrige in past years, Bea noted. However, Mercy Health System is unique in that its entire vertically integrated health system is being recognized for organizational excellence. Baldrige Award recipients were selected from 84 applicants. The other award winners were Pro-Tec Coating Co., the City of Coral Springs and the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center. Named for Malcolm Baldrige, the 26th Secretary of Commerce, the Baldrige Award was established by Congress in 1987 to enhance the competitiveness and performance of U.S. businesses and expanded in 1998 to include education and healthcare. ■ More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: BaLdrIGe 1207 l e l Connect: MIe 1207 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8191 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8187 http://www.mieweb.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.mieweb.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8185 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=8244

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