Making Healthcare IT Healthy
As summer settles in, things are hot at EDI. We’re excited to have some great new clients on board with us – take a look at the featured project noted below. In this EDItion we’re featuring content related to the myriad of current challenges facing healthcare IT leaders. Our first article was originally published in the February 20, 2008 issue of H&HN’s Most Wired Magazine. Sheldon Tyndall, CPHIMS, addresses ways to better evaluate and demonstrate the return on investment from significant IT projects. Sheldon can be reached at styndall@ediltd.com.
More specifically related to building design and construction, Don Kinser, PE, offers a variety of IT lessons learned from EDI’s vast list of hospital design projects. If you have a significant capital construction project on the near horizon, you definitely want to peruse this summary of key technology, security, and audio-visual concerns. Don can be reached at dkinser@ediltd.com.
As always, we hope you enjoy the content of this EDItion. If you have suggestions for topics you would like covered in future newsletters, please let us know. Have a wonderful summer!
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Sincerely, Kevin Hebblethwaite, CPSM |
Answering the IT Value Question
By Sheldon Tyndall, CPHIMS
Investing in a new building, modernizing patient rooms and creating a comfortable place to visit loved ones are expected, consumer-driven investments for healthcare organizations. The value of these expenditures is easy to understand because they are visible to both the organization’s leadership and its patients. The value of clinical information technology, however, is less obvious.
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Healthcare IT Lessons Learned
By Don Kinser, PE
I want to share some thoughts and ideas regarding low voltage in healthcare and some “lessons learned” over the years. My “low voltage” perspective comes from an information technology and communications point of view.
The first important lesson is to understand the key drivers in healthcare IT. I think there are three fundamental drivers at work in the industry today: (i) the industry’s slow and persistent march toward the goal of a full electronic health record, (ii) the promise of increased workflow efficiency and (iii) improved patient safety through IT adoption.
Featured Project
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare, Elmhurst , Ill.
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare is planning the development of a new Replacement Teaching Hospital in Elmhurst , Ill.
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EDI Welcomes Our Newest Team Member
Shane Fischer, RCDD, Senior ConsultantShane brings more than 15 years of technology systems consulting, design and integration experience to our Seattle office. His end-to-end project management experience over the last 8 years has benefited a variety of clients including healthcare organizations, government agencies, commercial corporations, and educational institutions. Shane can be reached at sfischer@ediltd.com.
Featured Event
EDI’s Annual Raft Trip
EDI returned to the Chattooga River to host our 3rd Annual Raft Trip on June 13, 2008. The attendees included EDI employees and individuals from around the AEC industry.
