Advanced technology from the ground up
2012-03-15 23:28:55
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Dr. Abhay Vats, a nephrologist at Children's Hospital, checks Kate Verone, 5, of Beaver at the hospital in Lawrenceville on Thursday. It is her first trip to the new location.
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Children's Hospital is among the first fully digital hospitals in the country:
Infrastructure services
- Campuswide wireless data network enables access to electronic health records, prescription writing and other clinical and non-clinical applications
- Power service cannot be interrupted
- 100 percent availability to Internet service
- Secure access to the network from anywhere in the world
Telecommunications services
- Campuswide wireless phone system
- Soft Phones -- phone calls over internet
- Centralized call center for billing inquiries, staff scheduling, patient inquiries, and more
- Cellphone-friendly campus
Applications and equipment
- Emergency department and house wide patient tracking and child abduction system
- Centralized electronic record storage and retrieval
- Campuswide paperless record management system
- Online access to all images for diagnostic purposes from any location on campus
- Campuswide document imaging system will be available housewide
- Automated medication and department-based supply control and dispensing systems available in all clinical locations
- Campuswide patient location system.
- Visitor tracking system with status alerts and locally and centrally monitored video
- Videoconferencing -- desktop- and auditorium-based to support continuing medical education, grand rounds, patient and clinician consultation and patient education
- Virtual library for patient/family health information
- Electronic kiosks located throughout campus to provide patient/family, visitor, employee and organizational information
Other features
- Onsite diagnostic equipment eliminates the need for patients to travel to other buildings for these services
- Heart and brain activity are monitored locally and remotely to enable caregivers to monitor patients closely
- All operative services on one floor, including operating suites, a catheterization lab, interventional radiology, a procedures center and an infusion center
- Isolated rooms and play-rooms ensure containment of contagious disease
First Published April 26, 2009 12:21 am
