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Dubois Regional Medical Center

Leading Pennsylvania health center achieves 'meaningful use' certification ahead of deadline

Clinicians now have secure access to complete and accurate information from anywhere in the facilities, leading to improved workflow, better decision-making and enhanced patient care.

DuBois Regional Medical Center (DRMC) is widely recognized as one of the leading health centers in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, an oasis of clinical and technical excellence with a focus on patient-centered care. In a progressive effort to better leverage existing and new clinical systems, operate more efficiently and improve clinical workflow, DRMC chose Johnson Controls to deploy a secure and robust IT infrastructure comprised of both wired and wireless data network systems.

 

The new network is the first step toward the ultimate goal of transforming DRMC’s IT infrastructure, communications methodology and clinical workflow to a fully converged and integrated platform. With it, DRMC has achieved certified meaningful use of its EMR and EHR systems, which run on the network. This accomplishment is well ahead of the 2015 federal deadline and made DRMC eligible for Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. These incentives, along with improved clinical workflow efficiencies result in an increased return on investment for DRMC.

 

The comprehensive project included:

  • An assessment of the facility's existing data and wireless infrastructure to ensure that equipment and services with a remaining lifecycle continue functioning as an integral part of the network, and do not present any performance concerns.
  • The design of a medical-grade local area and wireless network to support data and voice services for DRMC, both now and in the future. The network provides coverage to patient rooms, and clinical, work, public and storage areas, along with stairwells, elevators and mechanical rooms at each facility.
  • Engineering studies to validate the design to ensure that the infrastructure would support all defined communication and clinical applications.

 

The new network is also designed to support numerous technologies such as telemetry, real time location services, nurse call and voice over IP, to name just a few, providing DRMC a platform for future healthcare technology integrations.

 

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