North Shore-LIJ is partnering with Allscripts an industry leader in providing innovative software, connectivity and information solutions to make available to our physicians and providers a subsidized Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution that in addition to helping to improve care, will also save time and money. Computerized patient records offer more than just an electronic version of your paper chart; they allow you to raise the level of care you provide by making your patients’ information available to you anytime / anywhere, facilitating communication and sharing of patient information between providers, and providing clinical tools to support the delivery of comprehensive, evidence-based care.

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Paul Levy talked at the interimic healthcare event about running a hospital, transparancy, using webblogs and innovation. I just returned from a quick trip to Amsterdam where I was invited to speak at a session called “Health Care Innovation Event”, a conference of the ceos and other top administrators of many of the Dutch hospitals, along with the Dr. Ab Klink, Minister of Health, Welfare, and Sport. I am a little amazed by this — and no, I am not being falsely modest — but people are very interested in the quality and safety process improvement steps we have taken at BIDMC and also in our efforts at transparency on this blog and on our hospital’s website. I am surprised because I think we are just beginning to tap the potential improvements we can make in this arena, and we consider ourselves as just learning how to do it well. Other hospitals, like those in the Ascension Health system and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, have been at it for a longer time and with greater results. Nonetheless, it is very nice to have a chance to explain our programs to others around the world and to meet really interesting and thoughtful people. Inevitably, I bring back more ideas than I impart. After the formal presentations in Amsterdam (at the amazing ING building!), we had break-out sessions during dinner. (They were very accommodating and made my table the sole English-speaking one.) During the sessions, the facilitator at each table was posting the table’s comments in real time …