Yale-New Haven Hospital news release
Release date: July 14, 2009
Media contact: (203) 688-2488
NEW HAVEN — For the 10th year, Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) 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 also selected for the sixth year as a Most Wireless award winner.
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.
"Our commitment to enhanced information technology over the past decade, and the correlation to positive patient outcomes belies why we continue each year to strive for newer and better ways to serve our patients needs", said Mark Andersen, YNHH senior vice president and chief information officer. "We believe that listening to our patients and finding ways to meet their needs through information system upgrades and advances makes their experiences as positive as possible."
Some recent technology-related improvements at YNHH include:
This is the 11th 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 556 hospitals and health systems that completed the survey, representing 1,327 hospitals. Hospitals and Health Networks conducted the 2009 survey in cooperation with American Hospital Association, Accenture, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and McKesson Corporation.
This award and recognition comes after HIMSS Analytics, a subsidiary of Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) scored Yale-New Haven Hospital among the top 1 percent of U.S. hospitals for its clinicians' use of electronic medical entry and other advanced uses of technology that contribute to safe patient care and treatment. YNHH achieved state 6, HIMSS second highest level and was one of only 57 U.S. hospitals that attained HIMSS's two highest levels.
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 3,400 university and community physicians practicing in more than 100 specialties.
