Combination of Healthcare and Technology Impresses GAO
from Better Health magazine, Summer, 2003
Integrating technology and healthcare is a focus of Danville Regional Health System. It's also an objective of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Recently the Committee asked the General Accounting Office to visit DRMC, one of ten hospitals recommended by Tommy Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Secretary Thompson was aware of our progress in technology because Patsy Sublett, RN-C, MSN, Clinical Systems Manager, appeared on a panel he convened in March. The focus of Patsy's presentation at that event in Detroit was our computerized barcode scanning system for administering patient medication.
This time the GAO was interested not only in that system, which continues to be one of America's most advanced of its kind, but also in our wireless phone system and wireless network.
"Danville Regional was in very good company, since the other hospitals visited included such noted medical centers as the Mayo Clinic," said Patsy.
"The GAO is concerned about economics, and we were able to show how the investment we've made in technology has paid returns in the efficiency of operation and in better health for our community."
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