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Colleagues,

For the 6th time and for the 4th consecutive year, Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash. was named among the “100 Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems” by The Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking study, conducted annually by Hospitals and Health Networks magazine, the journal of the American Hospital Association...

... The survey measures the use of information technology at 1,314 hospitals nationwide for quality, customer service, public health and safety, business processes and workforce issues — the survey’s definition of “wired.”...

“This award is a tribute to the foundational work that’s been done at Madigan over the years,” said MedTech-IQ Member Col. (Dr.) Keith Salzman, Madigan’s chief of informatics...

... One of Madigan’s most cutting-edge capabilities was the launch of MiCare, the Military Health System’s pilot electronic Personal Health Record. Beneficiaries who opt to join the MiCare program can take personal medical information from the MHS electronic medical record, AHLTA, and put the information into their own Personal Health Record with the ability to control and own it. According to Salzman, about 500 patients at Madigan have participated in MiCare...

Read on at: http://www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=840

ENJOY!

CC

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