Cerner Demonstrates the Hospital Room of the Not-So-Distant Future at HIMSS 2007.KANSAS CITY Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo. -- Picture yourself checking into the hospital and your room has one monitor that is connected to all your care providers. Imagine having no confusing paper chart but instead seeing your medical records and general health information all at the click of a mouse. Visualize the idea of bringing together all of your favorite electronic comforts of home right to your bedside - TV, movies on demand, video games See video game console. and more. The hospital room of the future is not that far off. At Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Founded in 1961, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a healthcare industry membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of medical informatics technology and management systems. (HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ) 2007 in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded next week, Cerner will showcase the "Smart Room," powered by the CareAware[TM] architecture - the integration of multiple devices with the Electronic Medical Record (EMR (ElectroMagnetic Radiation) The emanation of energy from everything in the universe. Although the EMR from electrical and electronic devices is typically measured for practical, every-day situations, every object, including humans, emanates energy. ). The Smart Room is the next generation of "Smart Care," where the patient is the central focus. "We feel this is a natural development in building the Hospital of the Future," said Bill Miller, Cerner vice president. "Cerner's CareAware device connectivity architecture allows for the automation of the healthcare system, ultimately delivering a greater level of patient safety, increased efficiency and patient experience." The Smart Room is the intersection of a variety of innovative technologies including radio frequency identification See RFID. (RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. ), patient beds, medical bedside device, patient communication, information and entertainment. The room was designed with the patient in mind, but nearly every hospital role gains significant benefit from this Smart Room. * As a patient, you want to be informed about your condition and would enjoy some creature comforts of home too. The Smart Room has an interactive TV system, which combines popular off-the-shelf hardware components and custom-developed applications that provide comprehensive communication, education and entertainment for the patient and their families. By bringing all the comforts of home right to the bedside, a patient's overall experience is improved. Cerner is utilizing its partnership with innovative technology companies as well as existing client investment in the Cerner Millennium[R] architecture to provide a comprehensive patient solution that can be easily operated by all patients. * If you are a physician that has multiple patients in different locations, monitoring their progress can be a challenge. Even with the high demands of a critical care suite, the Smart Room allows care providers to create remote intensive care unit (ICU ICU intensive care unit. ICU abbr. intensive care unit ICU see intensive care unit. ICU ) access using video/audio conferencing technology to support quality audio and video images. Two-way communication Two-way communication is a form of transmission in which both parties involved transmit information. Common forms of two-way communication are:
* From housekeeping to clinicians, hospital staff is constantly coming in and out of patient rooms and require different patient information to perform their job. The "dashboard" securely displays up-to-date and accurate information that is needed by authorized care providers treating the patient at the bedside. Today, if you are a nurse or physician working in the hospital setting, it is essential for you to have access to patient information when you need it regardless of where you are. To address this need, Cerner is working with industry leading tablet and PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). manufacturers to enhance Cerner Millennium on different form factors while allowing these devices to communicate on the CareAware medical device architecture in real time. The Smart Room is powered by the CareAware architecture, which was built on more than 25 years of experience in healthcare automation. Cerner created the CareAware global device architecture to bridge the gap between medical devices and patient information, allowing healthcare organizations to: * Connect the provider community to medical devices to eliminate errors and improve effectiveness * Connect the devices to the clinician workflow to improve outcomes * Connect device information to the EMR to provide one source of truth Cerner's scalable enterprise approach to device connectivity offers plug-and-play capability for medical devices and can be used with Cerner Millennium solutions as well as other systems. Regardless of your role in the healthcare system, whether you are a patient, a physician, a nurse or part of the support team, the hospital room will never be the same again. The Smart Room demonstration will be in the Cerner booth (# 2440) at the HIMSS 2007 conference in New Orleans (Feb. 26 - March 1). About Cerner Cerner Corp. is taking the paper chart out of healthcare, eliminating error, variance and waste in the care process. With more than 6,000 clients worldwide, Cerner is the leading supplier of healthcare information technology. The following are trademarks of Cerner: Cerner, Cerner Millennium, CareAware and Cerner's logo. NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CERN CERN or European Organization for Nuclear Research, nuclear and particle physics research center straddling the French-Swiss border W of Geneva, Switzerland. . www.cerner.com. |
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