[medinformatics] Florida Task Force Tackles Healthcare IT Project

[Medical Informatics News]

A healthcare task force that includes Tallahassee Memorial
Hospital and Capital Regional Medical Center (CRMC), as well as
representatives of several North Florida communities, is laying the groundwork for improving medical care across the
Panhandle by taking advantage of IT advances. This according to an article in the Tallahassee Democrat.

Some of the improvements: CRMC installed laptop computers between every two rooms so clinicians could use them as
workstations when treating patients. A robot in the pharmacy automatically fills prescriptions. CRMC has also
developed a Web-based system that allows providers to read X-rays and patient charts from their homes.


This is good news in rural sections of the Panhandle. Emergency medical technicians who staff ambulances now can
transmit information from heart-monitoring devices back to the hospital, where a cardiologist can analyze them and ED
docs can transmit treatment orders back to the scene.



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