PADUCAH, KY – Lourdes Hospital has expanded its Web-based clinical portal.

Lourdes, a 375-bed hospital in Paducah, Ky., is part of the Catholic Healthcare Partners Network. It is working with the Informatics Corporation of America to provide clinicians with a single technology for accessing patient information received across disparate systems.

The hospital contracted with Nashville-based ICA last July to aggregate data from several information systems and provide a tool allowing physicians to monitor, assess and treat patients across the various treatment settings in and around the Paducah area.

"The system's intuitive user interface and physician-accommodating workflow made its use a natural extension of practicing medicine," said Craig M. Slater, MD, regional chief medical officer of Mercy Health Partners-Kentucky and CMO of Lourdes Hospital.

"As we continue our rollout of the application and add to its functionality, we look forward to the benefits it will bring to the community, the physicians and our hospital," said Steven Grinnell, Regional CEO of Mercy Health Partners-Kentucky and president and CEO of Lourdes Hospital.

The technology collects data from the hospital's core information system as well as laboratory, radiology, quality-assurance, ambulatory and other systems.
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