A little more than a year after opening, making IT an integral part of Parkland Hospital’s new building is paying off.
One addition to the Dallas-based facility that is showing great promise, CIO Matt Kull tells Clinical Innovation + Technology, is a system that gives doctors and nurse the ability to access their own desktop from more than 7,000 workstations located around the hospital. All they need is their ID badge to log-in, and it's ready to go, he says.
The hospital is so large, at 2.8 million square feet, the IT team realized clinicians also needed to be alerted to issues with their patients even when they are not near a patient's bedside. To do that, Kulls says, the IT department gave all new clinicians mobile devices that allow them to receive alerts on their patients. The devices are connected to the hospital's system via the cloud.
Those innovations enable information to flow through the hospital more seamlessly, enable clinicians to collect more data and information on their patients and offer clinicians quicker access to that data.
“I think, quite frankly, some of the unanticipated sources of data that we’re able to capture now are being put to use in ways that we didn’t initially anticipate,” Kull says.
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