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July 24, 2010

Union Hospital named 2010 Most Wireless

Anonymous The Tribune-Star The Tribune Star Sat Jul 24, 2010, 07:07 PM EDT

TERRE HAUTE — Union Hospital’s Terre Haute and Clinton hospitals have been recognized as two of the nation’s most-wireless, according to the results of the 2010 Most Wired Survey released in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.

Hospitals understand the importance of health information technology and the benefits of its widespread adoption, yet as a field still face significant barriers to implementation, according to a newly released survey of America’s Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems.

“We understand the important role technology plays in being able to deliver the highest-quality care to our patients and have been working towards this goal for years. We are honored our facilities have been named Most Wireless,” said Union Hospital Information Systems Manager Tiffany Bennett.

“Union Hospital continues to focus on using technology systems that give our medical staff a safer delivery system of care and more time at the bedside caring for our patients,” Bennett said.

This year’s survey reveals continued progress for hospitals in patient safety initiatives:

n Fifty-one percent of medication orders were done electronically by physicians at Most Wired hospitals, up from 49 percent last year. 

n More than half (55 percent) of Most Wired hospitals match medication orders at the bedside through bar coding or radio-frequency identification, up from 49 percent in 2009 and from 23 percent five years ago.

n Additionally, Most Wired hospitals have made improvements when it comes to sharing information during care transitions. For example, new medication lists are electronically delivered to caregivers and patients 94 percent of the time when a patient is transferred within the hospital, 98 percent at discharge and 86 percent when transferred to another care setting.

“The survey results highlight that continued progress is being made, but the full potential of health IT has not been met,” says Rich Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association. “Hospitals embrace health IT and recognize the many benefits it can provide to patients, but even Most Wired hospitals face barriers to adoption. We have asked that the federal government stimulate greater adoption by making Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments more widely available to hospitals and physicians so more hospitals can move in this direction.”

 Survey results indicate that the full potential of health IT has not been met and that the use of electronic medical record functions is still not widespread, even with independent physicians who practice within hospitals. For Most Wired hospitals, only 43 percent of independent physician practices have the ability to electronically document medical records, 41 percent have computerized physician order entry and 44 percent have decision support.

Gerry McCarthy, vice president of physician solutions at McKesson Corporation, a major sponsor of the Most Wired Survey, says providers need to be strategic about IT deployments. “You can’t just start with CPOE as a first step,” he says. “The best way to garner physician adoption of CPOE is to ensure that it adds immediate value to their workflow, which involves automating information across foundational care processes first, such as nursing documentation and bar-code medication administration, clinical monitoring and other features.”

The same type of thoughtful planning should be applied to information exchange, both with physicians and patients, he adds.

The 2010 Most Wired Survey is redesigned this year to reflect two years of work with an advisory group to continually improve the Most Wired Survey.

The 2010 Most Wired Survey represents a new structure and methodology with an increased use of analytics and reporting. The advisory group was composed of leaders from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, chief information officers, Most Wired staff and vendors. Additionally, the new methodology was made available to the entire CHIME membership for review and comment. 

Hospitals & Health Networks conducted the 2010 survey in cooperation with McKesson Corporation and CHIME. The July H&HN cover story detailing results is available at www.hhn

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