Middlesex Hospital Again Named 'Most Wired'

Middlesex Hospital has been recognized as one of the nation’s Most Wired, according to the results of the 2013 Most Wired Survey, released in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. Middlesex Hospital also received the Most Wired designation in 2012.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the survey. According to the American Hospital Association, “In that time, hospitals and health care systems have made great strides in establishing the basic building blocks for creating robust clinical information systems aimed at improving patient care. This includes adopting technologies to improve patient documentation, advance clinical decision support and evidence-based protocols, reduce the likelihood of medication errors and rapidly restore access to data in the case of a disaster or outage.

Among some of the key findings this year:

• Sixty-nine percent of Most Wired hospitals and 60 percent of all surveyed hospitals report that medication orders are entered electronically by physicians.  This represents a significant increase from 2004 results when only 27 percent of Most Wired hospitals and 12 percent of all hospitals responded, “Yes.”

• Seventy-one percent of Most Wired hospitals have an electronic disease registry to identify and manage gaps in care across a population compared with 51 percent of total responders.

• Sixty-six percent of Most Wired hospitals share patient discharge data with affiliated hospitals, in comparison to 49 percent of the total responders. Thirty-seven percent of Most Wired hospitals do so with non-affiliated hospitals versus 24 percent of total responders.

According to American Hospital Association President & CEO, Rich Umdenstock, “This year’s Most Wired organizations exemplify progress through innovation. The hospital field can learn from these outstanding organizations ways that IT can help to improve efficiency.”

The above posting came from a press release posted on the Middlesex Hospital website.