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Yale-New Haven Hospital news release
Release date: July 23, 2007
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Hospital selected as a 2007 Most Wired and Most Wireless award winner

For the eighth consecutive year, Yale-New Haven Hospital has been selected as one of the top 100 Most Wired hospitals in the nation by Hospitals and Health Networks, a trade magazine published by the American Hospital Association. YNHH was one of only 12 New England hospitals to be selected as Most Wired. YNHH was also selected for the fourth year as a Most Wireless award winner.

For the fourth consecutive year, the three Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) hospitals - Yale-New Haven, Bridgeport and Greenwich - were all named to the 100 Most Wired list. This recognition is based on technology advancements made by the organizations to enhance patient safety, clinical quality and customer service in healthcare centers.

According to Hospitals and Health Networks magazine, the nation's 100 Most Wired hospitals have demonstrated better outcomes in four key areas - mortality rates, patient safety, length of stay and the federal government's "Hospital Compare" core measures.

"Information technology is clearly a major tool in improving the systems and processes that lead to better outcomes," said Mark Andersen, YNHH senior vice president and chief information officer. "Yale-New Haven is committed to continually upgrading its information technology to support improvements in patient safety, quality of care and the overall patient care process."

The 100 Most Wired hospitals excel in the use of I.T. in several key areas: improving patient flow and workflow; implementing and capturing results of quality improvement techniques; medication management, operating room and anesthesia documentation; disaster planning; and access to digital images.

"By continually upgrading system technologies, we are able to support the many improvements in the overall patient care process," added Andersen. Some of the recent technology-related improvements at YNHH include:

An ongoing upgrade to Sunrise Clinical Manager, a new clinical system that enhances the physician order entries, medication management and clinical documentation Implementation of a "Single Sign-On" access that allows one user I.D. and password to permit secure entry into multiple clinical systems Implementation of a comprehensive operating room scheduling system that allows more efficiencies in workflow, documentation and patient care Expanded rollout of the hospital's ambulatory electronic medical record to include all Yale-New Haven Hospital clinics and several Yale Medical Group specialty clinics.

YNHH has had a computerized physician order-entry system, electronic medical records and digital imaging for many years, as well as patient appointment scheduling and pre-registration. Even the hospital's new mobile mammography van offers digital rather than film mammograms. YNHH also uses computer technology for employees to view benefit information, educational opportunities and job postings and track retirement funds.

This is the ninth year that Hospitals and Health Networks has conducted the Most Wired survey and benchmarking study, polling the nation's hospitals on the use of information technology. The awards were based on responses from 568 hospitals and health systems that completed the survey, representing 1,284 hospitals. Hospitals and Health Networks conducted the 2007 survey in cooperation with Accenture, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and McKesson Corporation.

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

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