rEdEFInIng - Stanford Hospital & Clinics

Dr. Kevin Tabb
Chief Medical Officer
Stanford Hospital & Clinics
AdvAncIng
RECOGNITION FOR STANFORD HOSPITAL & CLINICS
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report has ranked us the #1 hospital
in San Jose, California, in its first-ever Best Hospitals Metro
Area rankings.
leapfrog group
Our top hospital designation from the leapfrog group recognizes
our accomplishments in preventing medication errors, exceeding
standards for high-risk procedures and increasing patient safety.
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As our nation’s focus on the exciting potential for electronic medical records to advance
health care continues, Stanford Hospital & Clinics is proud to be at the forefront of this
new era in medicine. last year, we became one of a handful of institutions nationwide
to receive the highest-level designation for our electronic medical record system. This
year we began to explore how having this capability will improve patient outcomes,
increase safety and help manage costs.
We now have the tools to actually do what in the past could only have been imagined.
Within each patient’s electronic medical record is a treasure trove of information. When
combined with similar information about thousands of other individuals, it will provide
us with insights about how to deliver better care and ensure that resources are being
used effectively and efficiently.
Our challenge is to turn this invaluable data into meaningful information. until now,
patient data was in millions of pages of paper files, inaccessible on an aggregate
basis to researchers. Stanford is uniquely positioned to lead the new era of discovery
made possible by electronic data, drawing upon the expertise of our physician faculty
at the Stanford School of Medicine, our innovation partners in Silicon Valley and the
unmatched interdisciplinary resources of Stanford university.
We know, for example, that it is important to follow clinical guidelines in health care,
yet it is a challenge for hospitals everywhere to take national guidelines and use them
consistently to improve care. By analyzing the extensive data in electronic medical
records, we will be able to determine with much greater clarity where we are doing
well, where we need to do better and where to make necessary changes rapidly.
Never before in the history of medicine has this been possible, and Stanford Hospital
is one of only a few institutions that will be doing this soon.
The quality of care we provide to our patients is already at the highest level—as evident
in the awards and recognition that Stanford Hospital & Clinics continues to receive
from the leapfrog Hospital Survey, the American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet
designation, U.S. News & World Report and many others. Today we are poised to reach
even higher goals on behalf of our patients and to achieve the full potential of electronic
medical records for patients here and around the world.
American Nurses Credentialing Center
We are among only 6 percent of all healthcare organizations in
the u.S. to achieve the ANCC Magnet Recognition ® status based
on quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in
professional nursing practice.
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
We received the highest level designation for our electronic medical
record system from the leading healthcare IT industry group, HIMSS.
Stanford Hospital was the fourth healthcare organization in the nation
to achieve top-level designation, known as “Stage 7.”
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In December 2010, Stanford Hospital & Clinics launched
MyHealth, a tool that helps patients and their physicians
make digital health records a more useful part of everyday
care. “We were looking for a tool that would help patients
interact with us in a meaningful way,” says Dr. Christopher
Sharp, an internist and lead physician advocate for the
MyHealth system.
The Web-based system enhances the doctor-patient
relationship by increasing access to clinics and providing
timely, secure information about a patient’s medical care.
using MyHealth, Stanford patients can see health information
such as test results, keep track of upcoming appointments
and send secure messages to their clinics if they have
questions or concerns. In its first month, more than 2,300
messages were sent to clinics, and more than 16,000 patients
have taken advantage of the program so far.
Room 9: A nEW sTAgE FOr
HYBrId HEALTH cArE
It used to be standard operating procedure for a neurosurgery patient to
travel quite a distance inside the hospital. Diagnostic imaging, microscopic
monitoring and surgical interventions were not in one place, requiring full
operating teams, as well as their patients, to move from room to room.
That was before Room 9.
Designed specifically to allow on-scene collaboration between specialists
in neurosurgery and neuroradiology, Room 9 is 800 square feet of hybrid
capability. It is large enough to house state-of-the-art imaging equipment,
space for surgery and room to accommodate any extra medical professionals
who might be needed in an unanticipated turn of events. In Room 9, daylong
neurological procedures have been reduced to only four hours, and patients
face fewer risks from movement and less exposure to radiation for imaging.
Building on the success of Room 9, the New Stanford Hospital will include
one entire floor of this kind of multipurpose space, with several 1,000-squarefoot
units large enough to accommodate larger-scale equipment and more
people. “We are convinced that new hybrid rooms are what is needed at
Stanford, so it makes sense to invest the effort and funds to make it happen,”
says Jerry Maki, the Hospital’s Vice President of Clinical Services.
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