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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Friday, August 7, 2009 9:56 PM CDT
SBLHC named '09 Most Wired Hospital

MATTOON — Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System has been named to the nation’s Most Wired Small and Rural Hospitals according to the results of the 2009 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study released in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, a press release from SBLHS stated.

The economic crisis is forcing many hospitals to make tough decisions with scarce resources, including delaying and scaling down information technology (IT) projects, according to a newly released survey of America’s “most wired” hospitals and health systems. While progress has been made and incentives to implement IT will be available through the recently passed federal stimulus legislation, many hospitals still have a long way to go.

In its commitment to serve the community for generations to come, Sarah Bush Lincoln has planned for future capital expenses by ensuring a strong financial position and seeking appropriate grant opportunities. In 2005, The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded Sarah Bush Lincoln with a $1.5-million technology grant to implement an ambulatory electronic medical record (AEMR) system in its physician clinics. So far, seven physician clinics are using the electronic record system.

In addition to recent implementations of electronic medical records in physician clinics, Sarah Bush Lincoln’s goal of becoming “wired” spans the entire organization. Departments such as patient billing, materials management, staff scheduling, and risk management use computerized systems to collect and analyze data.

The Most Wired Survey is conducted annually by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the journal of the AHA, which uses the results to name the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems. It focuses on how the nation’s hospitals use information technologies for quality, customer service, public health and safety, business processes and work force issues.

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