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Medical Center Named Most Wired
OSU Medical Center has been named one of the country's "Most Wired" hospitals for the seventh consecutive year. The prestigious designation refers to the use of advanced information technology tools by the nation's hospitals to provide quality care and patient safety. Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, compiled a list of top 100 Most Wired hospitals based on the surveys from 1,255 hospitals.
Wireless technology has been implemented throughout the OSU Medical Center to reduce errors and help staff be more efficient, and improve the processes of charting patients' progress, transmitting patient records and images, inputting medication orders and controlling a network of robotic transporters capable of carrying supplies around the hospital.
The list of the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems appears in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks. The Medical Center is the only Columbus-area hospital to make the list.
OSU Radweb/PACS
OSUMC implemented a fully digital, filmless radiology system in March 2001. Since that time films have not been routinely printed but are available online. All images are available online back to April 2000. This paperless system creates real-time access to testing results. Radiology performs about 300,000 exams per year and the PACS system handles about 1100 exams a day. Access is available from any hospital PC, approximately 5,000 (including the OR). Clinical review stations are also located in the ED and ICU's. Individual access to Medical Records and Imaging systems utilizing VPN technology, letting you work at home. This mature PACS environment is dedicated to setting the industry standard for filmless technology.
Computerized Physician Order Entry
OSUMC began developing its computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system in the mid 1990’s. The system has been live at University Hospital and the James Cancer Hospital since 2000 and will expand to University Hospital East in spring 2005. This comprehensive system includes all inpatient orders on the units where implemented including Laboratory, Radiology, Medications, and Nursing Orders. The system processes approximately 37,000 orders per week and has been central to our efforts at improving our turnaround times for medication administration, CAB tests and Radiology tests. The system also allows you to enter orders on any patient on your service from any location at the Medical Center.
Physician Digital Assistant Program PDA.
A PDA (most recently a Palm Tungsten X) is provided to OSUMC limited staff, at the beginning of his or her training program and is loaded with a variety of software, including eProcrates RxPro, eRounds, eResults and E*Value, as well as Avantgo software.
Additional information is provided by PDAcentral. Limited staff are provided with an upgraded PDA model after three full years of use.
EResults
This is the third generation of results reporting software that has been implemented since the early 1990’s. The current system is completely web-based and allows easy access to both inpatient and outpatient medical records including all lab reports, radiology reports, all dictated reports, and discharge instructions