Most hospitals and patients connect Wired
Winona Health has been recognized himself again as "Most Wired Small and Rural" hospitals health and hospital networks. This is the eleventh year for Winona Health has received this award.
As the health care system, the transition to more integrated and patient-centered care hospitals nation use information technology to better connect and patients, according to the survey of the 16th edition of the hottest health, performed by hospitals and health networks.
"The administrative and health staff Winona spent many hours in the implementation and development of electronic health record systems to improve care for our patients," said William Davis, MD, a doctor of medicine Winona Family Health and director of the medical information. "The success of these efforts is the recognition of Winona Health cooler with low prices since 2002 is the result of hard work and dedication."
"The data show that the distribution cable more health information to doctors and patients have the information they need to promote health and make more informed treatment decisions," said Rich Umbdenstock, President and CEO American Hospital Association. "Hospitals, doctors and communities have a great job, in order to improve the care and support service improvement and goals of patient involvement their computer systems."
Most Wired survey covered 2,014 development of new models of care and payment of an IT perspective. As the provision of health care is moving toward a value-based system will require more and better use of data for the analysis, management and coordination of the care of the health of the population.
Most Wired hospitals, those that meet a set of strict criteria, it has made significant progress in improving the use of IT service quality and to reduce the risk of medical errors. For example, in most hospitals Wired:
• 81 percent of the drugs are compared with those of the patient, the nurse and order through bar code technology in its header.
• 86 percent offer quality of clinical scores leaders regularly as part of their improvement initiatives.
• 69 percent of hospitals use more online tools for retrospective analysis of clinical and administrative data to areas for improvement in the quality of care to identify and reduce the cost of care.
• 40 percent offer mobile applications for secure messaging with patients.
Wired Survey of Health, conducted between January 15 and March 15, asked hospitals and health systems nationwide to answer questions regarding their IT projects. Respondents completed 680 surveys, or 1,900 hospitals, over 30 percent of all hospitals in the United States.
