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- North Hawaii builds health data exchange
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- Hawaii practice to automate medical records, business management
- EHRs, e-consults boost care coordination between primary, specialty docs
- Hawaii debuts new Online Care service for all residents
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- Hawaii invests $20M in electronic records
Hawaiian hospitals receive remote care service
Doctors at Queen’s Medical Center of Honolulu, Hawaii, will use remote service technology to evaluate and suggest treatment for trauma patients at the North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea. A federal grant of $481,000 will partially fund a telemedicine system connecting the two hospitals, which will allow Queen’s doctors to assess NHCH patients without having to fly them from the Big Island to Oahu. “Using mini-cameras placed inside a patient’s body, a surgeon in Waimea will be able to consult with a Queen’s Medical Center surgeon who can see the same images as the local surgeon,” said William Park, MD, of the North Hawaii Community Hospital.
St. Joseph’s and Candler adopt staff-sharing IT
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Candler Hospital of Savannah, Ga., have implemented a service that increases workforce flexibility and sharing of staff resources. The hospitals’ staffs can use the service, provided by BidShift, Inc., to view shift availability and select hours at either hospital, allowing the hospitals to fill shift vacancies.
Children’s hospital to boost medication safety
In a move to increase pediatric medication safety across their network, the Children’s Hospital of Omaha, Neb. has gone live with components of Eclypsis’ Sunrise Clinical Manager. The hospital will use the Sunrise Pharmacy and the electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR) products, which together will automate distribution workflow, ensure safe ordering and provide a view of patient medication history. A second phase of the hospital’s medication safety initiative will involve implementation of Sunrise’s CPOE system and a bar-code medication administration system.
Lancaster General to use self-service kiosks
Lancaster General, a nonprofit health system in Lancaster County, Pa., has announced that it will license patient self-service kiosks at three of its hospitals. Galvanon’s MediKiosks enable patients to check-in digitally, access demographic and insurance information, sign consent forms, enter medical history information, and make co-payments. MediKiosks will be used in departments of Lancaster General Hospital, a top-rated 590-bed acute care facility.
