Duke takes top honours for Technology Innovation.
Recently, Duke University Health System won the prestigious 21st Century Achievement Awards at this year's Computerworld Honors Program ceremony. The hospital is using ORView -- an Internet and WIFI-based system designed and implemented by IBM -- to coordinate resources, personnel and medications for the 140 surgical cases performed every day in the system's 45 operating rooms. Real-time peri- and post-operative data have replaced error-prone paper and phone systems.
IBM makes the connection to better patient care
The important task of linking healthcare stakeholders over an electronic information system is now a viable reality. IBM’s Healthcare Collaborative Network (HCN) Solution creates systems for collecting, transmitting and exchanging clinical data, monitoring quality of care, sharing data more securely and instantaneously, responding to adverse drug events, and reducing medical errors.
Targeting the full spectrum of healthcare and related industries and government agencies, IBM’s HCN Solution, can:
· collect, analyze and share treatment and research information.
· enable collaboration.
· enhance analysis and quality of care.
· proactively detect and respond to adverse healthcare and drug events.
· streamline reporting mechanisms.
Currently in place in several companies around the world, IBM HCN has:
· let hospitals, physicians and consumers share digital medical images.
· Reduced supply chain management costs
· helped develop the cures of the future with electronic capture of clinical trial data
· allowed for better medicine through on demand drug and therapeutic information provision
· cut administrative workloads by boosting efficiencies through implementation of technology applications.
IBM is making a real-world difference by helping healthcare organizations and government agencies address critical healthcare related issues through innovation in technology.