Children’s Medical Center integrates process improvement and electronic health record initiatives

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Modern Healthcare and PricewaterhouseCoopers present Straight Talk. This session addresses process improvement and EHR initiatives and was held at Modern Healthcare’s Chicago headquarters on August 26, 2008. Fawn Lopez, publisher of Modern Healthcare, was the moderator.

Children’s Medical Center, a two-hospital pediatric system in the Dallas metropolitan area, is successfully embracing one of healthcare’s more challenging missions: to significantly improve care delivery by providing real-time, all-the-time access to electronic health records (EHR) for patients and providers. Children’s, affiliated with UT Southwestern Medical Center, is licensed for 483 beds. Its leadership approaches the EHR project as an integral component of hospital-wide process improvement initiative, involving collaboration among senior leaders, physicians, clinical personnel and information technology experts.