Lake Fong/Post-Gazette
Dr. Abhay Vats, a nephrologist at Children's Hospital, checks Kate Verone, 5, of Beaver at the hospital in Lawrenceville on Thursday. It is her first trip to the new location.
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