When it comes to implementing technology, money – and whether you have it – really can make a difference. This year there have been some high profile, high-budget implementations that have made big news.
Cleveland Clinic’s plans to open two new, spacious facilities this fall struck a chord with Healthcare IT News readers, who chose it as having the biggest impact on healthcare information technology.
One reason the $634 million facilities will be so roomy is to house all the technology they’ll be using.
The facilities, the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Pavilion and the Glickman Tower, will house state-of-the-art technologies, including advanced heart and urological, advanced 3-D imaging, robotic interventional surgical devices and a fully computerized communications system.
One Healthcare IT News reader said, “I appreciate their ability to accomplish ‘big news’ producing projects and still provide excellent patient-centered care.”
“Cleveland Clinic has not only pushed its healthcare technology internally, they’ve been very vocal on what they are doing that works,” said Michael Wallace, of the PrimaryData Corporation.
Another big budget item was Kaiser Permanente’s massive electronic health records system, called KP HealthConnect, which had a price tag of $4 billion. HealthConnect is the world’s largest privately funded electronic health record, covering 8.7 million members.
Kim D. Slocum, a HIMSS Fellow and president of KDS Consulting, called it a “groundbreaking success, not just in getting HIT in place, but in using it to improve care.”
“I believe that the implementation process that Kaiser has gone through can teach many large facilities the rights and wrongs of EMR,” agreed Deborah Smith, RN, of Grand Strand Hospital in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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