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Advanced technology from the ground up
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Children's Hospital is among the first fully digital hospitals in the country:

Infrastructure services
  • Campuswide wireless data network enables access to electronic health records, prescription writing and other clinical and non-clinical applications
  • Power service cannot be interrupted
  • 100 percent availability to Internet service
  • Secure access to the network from anywhere in the world
Telecommunications services
  • Campuswide wireless phone system
  • Soft Phones -- phone calls over internet
  • Centralized call center for billing inquiries, staff scheduling, patient inquiries, and more
  • Cellphone-friendly campus
Applications and equipment
  • Emergency department and house wide patient tracking and child abduction system
  • Centralized electronic record storage and retrieval
  • Campuswide paperless record management system
  • Online access to all images for diagnostic purposes from any location on campus
  • Campuswide document imaging system will be available housewide
  • Automated medication and department-based supply control and dispensing systems available in all clinical locations
  • Campuswide patient location system.
  • Visitor tracking system with status alerts and locally and centrally monitored video
  • Videoconferencing -- desktop- and auditorium-based to support continuing medical education, grand rounds, patient and clinician consultation and patient education
  • Virtual library for patient/family health information
  • Electronic kiosks located throughout campus to provide patient/family, visitor, employee and organizational information
Other features
  • Onsite diagnostic equipment eliminates the need for patients to travel to other buildings for these services
  • Heart and brain activity are monitored locally and remotely to enable caregivers to monitor patients closely
  • All operative services on one floor, including operating suites, a catheterization lab, interventional radiology, a procedures center and an infusion center
  • Isolated rooms and play-rooms ensure containment of contagious disease
First published on April 26, 2009 at 12:21 am
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