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Released July 15, 2002
Yale-New Haven Hospital news release

Yale-New Haven Hospital selected as a 2002 Most Wired award winner by Hospitals and Health Networks

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Yale-New Haven Hospital has been selected as a 2002 Most Wired award winner by Hospitals and Health Networks, a trade magazine published by the American Hospital Association. Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and Greenwich Hospital, both members of the Yale New Haven Health System, are the only Connecticut hospitals to receive this honor.

Yale-New Haven Hospital was cited for its excellent use of technology and how it serves patients, their families and the YNHH staff. This national honor recognized Yale-New Haven Hospital for its outstanding contribution in several key areas, including physician and nurse access to patient data, appointment scheduling and pre-registration, job postings, as well as employee benefit information. YNHH received added praise for its network connectivity speed, network security and how and what business is conducted online.

"We are very proud and honored to be selected as a 2002 Most Wired award winner," said Mark Andersen, senior vice president and CIO at Yale-New Haven Hospital. "Our desire to remain ahead of the technology curve and provide our patients with the very best care remains our highest priority. This award demonstrates that we understand the need for our constituents to be up to date with the latest technical innovations, and in that leadership role, we strive to meet or exceed those needs and expectations every day."

Yale-New Haven scored better than most other health systems in the amount of clinical information available to physicians and nurses; only 25 percent of other institutions provide online access to medical histories, nurses' notes, medical record entries, order entries and clinical results. Also, YNHH updates its Web site daily, while only 33 percent of other hospitals keep their sites as current.

The fourth annual survey and study was conducted by Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, in cooperation with McKesson Information Solutions, Qwest Communications International and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The survey and study measures the nation's health care systems on their use of internet technologies to connect patients, physicians and nurses, payors, health plans and employees.

"This year's survey shows that Most Wired organizations continue to commit employees and money to their information technology investments," said Alden Solovy, executive editor of Hospital's & Health Networks.

Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn., is a 944-bed not-for-profit hospital serving as the primary teaching hospital for the Yale University School of Medicine. Yale-New Haven was founded as the fourth voluntary hospital in the United States in 1826, and today the hospital complex includes the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and the Yale Psychiatric Hospital, with a combined medical staff of about 2,400 university and community physicians practicing in more than 100 specialties.

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