California hospital to roll out OpenVista by year’s end |
| Kern Medical Center, a county-owned 222-bed acute-care teaching hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., is set to deploy the OpenVista electronic health record by the end of the year. |
Hospital executives say the health IT initiative, which will eventually touch every Kern Medical Center clinician and patient, is designed to help the organization achieve dramatic and swift clinical transformation and maximize health IT financial incentives available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. |
Officials say OpenVista’s affordability and rapid implementation process will enable the medical center to cut costs and streamline care for more than 100,000 acute and ambulatory care patients each year while using federal ARRA stimulus funds to pay for the system in total. |
“We didn’t think any other system could be implemented fast enough for us to qualify for the first year of federal funding,” he said. |
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