Botswana Hospital Takes Major Digital Leap Forward

Colleagues,

As reported in InformationWeek Healthcare ... As many U.S. hospitals move to electronic medical records and other clinical systems in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's (ARRA) $20 billion-plus incentive programs ... a handful of state-of-the art hospitals are opening up in places that don't generally get a lot of attention for innovation...

... in Botswana ... the 200-bed Bokamoso Private Hospital is staffed by 200 nurses and 80 doctors, including 30 from Botswana and 50 expatriates from the U.S... Among the technologies being used at the hospital are:

... Magnum Suite, a health information system from Religare Technologies in Bangalore, India which includes patient registration, CPOE, clinical documentation, supply and procurements, pharmacy, labs, radiology and picture archiving, and communications systems (PACS.)...

... Cisco for redundant data network system, including wireless, VoIP and telephony services ...

... Remote access to the EMR and hospital information system through Citrix, which provides Internet-based access to 30 concurrent users from any location ... broadband is available in the Botswana region, helping to make this state-of-the-art hospital possible....

... The Bokamoso Hospital is an affiliate of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis and has on its advisory board representatives from... the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, John Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Weill Cornell, University of California at San Francisco, and Lucille
Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford ..

Read on at: http://www.informationweek.com/news/healthcare/EMR/showArticle.jhtm...

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By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
A digitized and networked hospital in Botswana, Africa provides care based on U.S. best practices for electronic medical records and clinical systems.