Mercy Health Partners Gives Doctors Secure Mobile Access to Clinical Patient Data

Mike Hibbard, Vice President Informatics for Mercy Health Partners, Cincinnati, and Tom Gocke, Solution Executive at Thomson Healthcare, Denver, share the approach used by Mercy Health Partners to give physicians a secure way to access clinical patient data wherever they are – at the patient bedside, at home, or at the office. Mercy Health Partners clinicians now have secure, real-time access to labs, medications, reports, active orders, nursing observations, critical alerts, and shared messages using both a web-based desktop interface and smartphones. They discuss how wireless technology is transforming the way critical information is disseminated throughout healthcare facilities and lessons learned during this initiative.