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Long before the moment a point of care (POC) system is deployed in a healthcare environment, the entire enterprise has had to reassess and optimize human, technological and physical plant workflows for a successful rollout. For Chicago's Rush University Medical Center, POC is actually a midpoint of a 9-year process of transformation into a state-of-the-art health system capable of providing the utmost in patient care well into the 21st century.
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As an academic medical center, Rush University Medical Center encompasses a 613-bed hospital, the 61-bed Johnston R. Bowman Health Center and Rush University--home to one of the first medical colleges in the Midwest and one of the nation's top-ranked nursing colleges.
In 2004, Rush revealed its plan for the most comprehensive construction and facilities renovation program in its history. Known as the "Rush Transformation," the comprehensive plan has the medical center investing $800 million in new technology and facilities over a 9-year period. "In addition to delivering better care today, this plan raises the issue of how we're going to deliver patient care going forward," says Rush University Medical Center CMO David Ansell, M.D. "Facilities and technology are just tools that lead to what occurs at the bedside between a nurse, a doctor and a patient."
According to Ansell and VP of Information Services Jim Kearns, this complete transformation not only includes technology platforms such as the enterprisewide rollout of a new electronic medical record (EMR) platform, computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and POC solutions, but also the construction of three new facilities which includes a two million square foot hospital addition on the campus.
In order to present a unified leadership model of the project, Ansell and Kearns were tapped as the key leaders for the clinical transformation. "The identification and implementation of mobile devices at Rush is really tied to our Epic Systems EMR implementation, which is more...
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