Trinity Health Puts EHR Rollout on Hold, Looks at Processes
According to Crains Detroit, Trinity Health is going to hold off the deployment of its new electronic health records (EHR) system at two Southeast Michigan hospitals, and postpone other deployments. The hospital group wants to take time to study and refine work processes at facilities where the $315 million “Project Genesis” system is already in place. It will ultimately span 23 hospitals in seven states, nine of which are already live and running.
The delay is meant to align with clinical best-practices in order to achieve best patient outcomes in terms of safety and quality of care. Otherwise known as evidence-based medicine (EBM), this methodology will be used to work on how physicians look at drug orders, quality indicators and error reporting. Applications covered by the project include HealthQuest and Cerner PowerChart in support of clinical documentation and CPOE, a new pharmacy system, online nursing documentation and in some cases, new emergency department and radiology / imaging systems.
Trinity Health is the fourth-largest Catholic health system in the United States (ranked by operating Revenue) with, as of 2005, 44,950 full-time equivalent employees, 7,315 physicians, 25 ministry organizations encompassing 44 hospitals (29 owned, 15 managed), 379 outpatient clinics/facilities,
numerous long-term care facilities, home health and hospice programs, and senior housing communities in seven states. It had revenues of $5.7 billion last year.
March 8, 2006 Related topics: Quality, Safety, Errors, Policies & Procedures, IT & software, Evaluation & assessment