[rnformatics]

From Susan Newbold on the CARING list:

CARING, The Maryland Technology Committee, and Health Data Management announce the results of the 2008 Nursing Information Technology Innovation Award!

Congratulations to Columbus Regional Hospital, Columbus, IN. for an alert program to identify patients at high risk for deterioration. They took existing software and used it in a new way. In addition they were able to clearly quantify their performance metrics.

Honorable Mention: pac2 device - an algorithmic computerized caculator from InformMed, a Peoria, IL firm started by a nurse. The entry was submitted by Children's Hospital of Illinois.

Honorable Mention: Texas Children's Hospital use of the Enterprise Service Bus from Emergin, Inc. which filters communication of data from pagers, wireless telephone, a nurse call system, IV pumps and patient monitors.

You can read the full story in the April 2008 hardcopy of Health Data Management. I trust it will soon be online at healthdatamanagement.com

Thanks go to the judges for thier work in determining the award winners.
Howard J Anderson, Exec Editor, Health Data Management
Maria Koszalka, EdD, RN, Chair MD Technology Committee and VP Pt Care Services, Johns Hopkins Bayview, Baltimore, MD
Beth Muthig, MSN, RN, Senior Dir Clinical Informatics Erickson Health (2007 award winner), Catonsville, MD
Susan Newbold, PhD RN-BC FAAN FHIMSS, Co-Chair MD Technology Committee, Association Professor, Vanderbilt School of Nursing, Nashville, TN
Stephen Prouse, MS, RN-BC, Dir of Clini Applications, Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, MD

Congratulations to all 39 teams who submitted for this Third Annual Award!