DOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL RECEIVES TWO PRESTIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY AWARDS
03/03/2010
Doylestown Recognized for Innovative Use of Technology for Safer Patient Care
Doylestown Hospital has received two prestigious awards for its use of technology. Doylestown is among an elite group of 85 hospitals across the nation to be recognized with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) EMR Stage 6 Award. Doylestown Hospital is the only Philadelphia-area hospital to receive this award.
EMR Stage 6 marks significant progress toward achieving a full EMR (Electronic Medical Record. As a Stage 6 hospital, Doylestown does full electronic medication management; is well on its way with CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) with about 32% of inpatient orders are currently generated through CPOE; has full PACS (digital radiology images) and online clinical decision support.
The next, and highest, stage according is HIMSS EMR Stage 7; Doylestown is expected to reach this level in about a year or so.
Doylestown Hospital has also received a Microsoft Health Users Group (MS-HUG) Innovation Award in the area of HIE (Health Information Exchange) and Interoperability for its work on the Doylestown Clinical Network. This network ties together the EMR systems of the hospital and community physicians. The hospital has 185 physicians on the NextGen network, which automatically transfers a patient’s EMR to specialists and the hospital. Of those, more than 50 are active EMR users. There are about 400,000 patients in our community enrolled in this network. The ultimate goal is to safely and efficiently share a patient’s health information throughout the healthcare continuum.
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