As Penn Medicine expands digital health across its health system with the continued implementation of electronic medical records for inpatients and improves patient-monitoring for patients at risk for readmission, it is striking a balance between the need for change and the need for carrying it out at a manageable pace.
Bill Hanson was appointed chief medical information officer in 2010, when the hospital was laying down the infrastructure for many of its healthcare IT programs. Among the projects he is overseeing are the rollout of the electronic medical records system. Last year saw the implementation of EMR for outpatients and the first stage of its EMR for inpatients that included nurses’ observations along with occupational therapists’ and physical therapists’.
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