"It's proved to be a cost-effective way to manage schedules by relieving nurse managers of the time-consuming task of producing their own schedules. It also provides a valuable tool for administrative managers to manage the complexities of patient throughput, allowing us to make adjustments in our daily staffing levels throughout the day to best meet the needs of our patients."
"The incentive program really works. We have employees find out about health issues they are unaware of through the assessment and screenings. Our people see it as the City caring about their well-being."
"Communication between teams is vital. Using technology allows us to increase communication, better assess patients, and ultimately, make significant improvements in patient outcomes."
"Now the information is linked, we know that 100 percent of children will have been automatically checked on arrival,4 even in our busy Accident and Emergency. All staff can clearly see on the child’s electronic record if there is further safeguarding information available."
"We’re doing a lot of preventive care. I think it’s just going to keep continuing to grow."
"MU Health Care has about 60 clinics, so we’re not able to embed a pharmacist in each of the clinics. The technology creates an efficient workflow."
"ViPRX helps physicians if their patients have any medication issues. It helps them address issues in a quicker manner because they don’t have to do as much background work. It’s being done for them."
"Using Rapid Response improved patient safety, it’s improved the number of patients we see, it’s improved the time in which we reach patients who need our help and it’s improved the quality of data selection."
"Having information readily available about a patient, regardless of where care occurs, expedites care in ways that requesting paper charts could never do—even within an organization."
"Without the computer-fed history, the physicians would not have thought to take the action they did the computer, the people who fed the data, the people who wrote and installed the capability and the doctors who thought to look at the history saved a life."
"Cerner helped MOHAP automate the interfaces and augment the quality and quantity of AMR data captured."
"Moving to automation helped make a big difference. Now each test takes a few seconds. That’s a lot of time saved when you’re running an average of more than 2,000 tests a month."
"We have a new opportunity with the digital agenda to do things differently, to do things smarter — sometimes faster, but hopefully more efficiently — that will improve both the working life of clinical staff and the care we give to patients. Patients really are what we’re here for first and foremost."
"It’s had a real impact on handovers. We can have a list of our patients up on the screen, and we can go around and individually look at the NEWS scores so there’s no miscommunication."
"Results get to the patients faster. Many physicians adjust blood thinner medication, and they want to get it done during the day. We also have the patient portal where patients can go online and review their lab results. We can get those results to the patient quicker."