Sunday, May 11, 2008

Enabling the integrated digital hospital

Healthcare providers are challenged every day to enhance quality of care, optimize workflows, and improve access to services. IT can play a significant role in reaching these goals, including empowering providers with real-time access to digitized information to improve clinical decision making.
Digital technologies are proving to be essential tools for improving access to information—current orders, medical images, patient histories, prescriptions, physician orders, and other vital data—across the healthcare system.
But deploying electronic medical records and other digital health technologies requires much more than just hardware and software. Transitioning to an integrated digital hospital requires interoperable, standards-based digital technologies, comprehensive solutions, careful planning, and significant culture change.
Intel works with healthcare providers worldwide to meet these challenges. We drive standards and interoperability, and we design technologies for the secure and timely exchange of healthcare information. We enable digital information to be shared securely across the healthcare ecosystem: hospitals and clinics, patients, payors, biopharma companies, and other members of the healthcare community.
Collaborating with healthcare leaders and clinicians around the world, we listen to understand unmet IT needs, match information systems to business objectives, and customize solutions and platforms for healthcare's unique needs. What we've learned helps our healthcare customers more effectively link people, processes, and information to:
Improve clinical decision-making and quality of care
Increase patient safety
Reduce costs
Improve access to healthcare
Enhance workflow, productivity, and operational efficiencies

http://www.intel.com/healthcare/hit/providers/index.htm?iid=health+lhn_providers

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