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UCD Med Center earns electronic records honor
UC Davis Medical Center is a winner of the 2013 Enterprise HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence, which the use of the electronic health records to improve health care delivery processes and patient safety while achieving a demonstrated return on investment.
HIMSS, the nation’s leading hospital information technology society, noted that UCD has exchanged 3.7 million patient records of different types with non-affiliated health providers in the community and region since 2008. The medical center and affiliated clinics served a population spread over some 65,000 square miles.
UCD’s system also allows for real-time surveillance within the hospital to help recognize and measure trends and events quickly. Life-threatening complications — from infections like sepsis and ventilator-associated pneumonia — have been “significantly” reduced, according to a news release.
UCD’s 20-year-old Center for Health and Technology Program has provided nearly 37,000 telemedicine consultations with rural areas in more than 50 different clinical specialties.
The health system has invested about $160 million in its electronic records system from 2002 to 2013. It saved an estimated $63 million over the same time period.
The Med Center will be recognized at an awards ceremony in Orlando, Fla., in February.
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