LMH Named on 2013 Health Care’s Most Wired Award List
Licking Memorial Hospital (LMH) was recently named as one of
the Most Wired Hospitals for 2013. Conducted
in cooperation with McKesson Corp., AT&T, the College of Healthcare
Information Management Executives, and the American Hospital Association (AHA),
the Most Wired Award is given to hospitals that have made great strides in
establishing and creating robust clinical information systems aimed at
improving patient care. This includes
adopting technologies to improve patient documentation, advance clinical
decision support and evidence-based protocols, reduce the likelihood of
medication errors, and rapidly restore access to data in the case of a disaster
or outage.
“Over the past several years, we have been heavily focused
on implementing advanced clinical systems at the point of care to directly
impact the quality of care provided to our patients at Licking Memorial Health
Systems (LMHS),” said Rob Montagnese, LMHS President & CEO. “We are pleased to be recognized at a
national level for our efforts to improve the health of our community.”
Those efforts include use of its wireless network to support
clinical technology at the point of care, mobile radiology and biomedical
equipment, barcode medication administration, handheld devices to capture
patient vital signs and lab data, cellular telephone service, Vocera nurse call
and paging system integration, in-room patient monitoring equipment integration
with Vocera, and wireless infusion pumps.
In addition, wireless internet access is available to patients and visitors
throughout the entire Hospital facility.
Research has shown that information technology can be a
powerful tool in supporting the delivery of high quality patient care,” said
Sallie Arnett, M.S., RHIA, CHCIO, LMHS
Vice President Information Systems. “Such
technologies assist medical staff with patient care decisions, improve clinical
outcomes and reduce medical errors.”
Among some of the key findings this year for LMH in particular:
- Total inpatient medications orders are entered
100 percent electronically.
- Approximately
99 percent of all inpatient medications are electronically matched to the
patient.
- 100
percent of the employed physician practices have implemented electronic
clinical documentation, results viewing, computerized provider order
entry, and decision support.
LMH makes
available quality digital diagnostic images from Radiology, Cardiovascular
Imaging, Mammography, Neuroimaging, and Nuclear Imaging to the appropriate care
provider regardless of the provider’s location.
LMH also utilizes patient monitoring equipment which sends data directly
into the Hospital’s Electronic Medical Records (EMR), including bedside blood
pressure, pulse oximetry, temperature, glucose, lab tests, and fetal
monitoring.
“This year’s Most Wired
organizations exemplify progress through innovation,” says Rich Umbdenstock, AHA President and CEO. “The hospital field can learn from these
outstanding organizations ways that Information Technology can help to improve
efficiency.”
Health Care’s Most Wired Survey, conducted between January
15 and March 15, asked hospitals and health systems nationwide to answer
questions regarding their information technology initiatives. Respondents completed 659 surveys,
representing 1,713 hospitals, or roughly 30 percent of all U.S. hospitals.
The AHA is a not-for-profit association of health care
provider organizations and individuals that are committed to the health improvement
of their communities. The AHA is the
national advocate for its members, which includes nearly 5,000 hospitals,
health care systems, networks, other providers of care, and 43,000 individual
members.
Licking Memorial Hospital has served the medical
needs of Licking County residents since it was founded in 1898. The 227-bed facility employs approximately
1,700 staff members to meet the healthcare needs of the community. Licking Memorial Hospital is proud to have
been named to Truven Health Analytics’ national list of 100 Top Hospitals a
total of 11 times. For more information,
visit www.LMHealth.org.
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