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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Beaufort Memorial Hospital Enhances Patient Care with Secure Mobile Solutions</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Attend this session to learn how secure, one-touch roaming sessions helped to encourage use of electronic medical records (EMR) and pave the way for CPOE at Beaufort Memorial Hospital.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The move to EMR was a foregone conclusion from the start at Beaufort Memorial Hospital. Yet, while the long-term benefits that a paperless environment would have on hospital efficiency, PHI security and improved patient outcomes were substantial, the immediate impact on caregiver workflow had the potential to turn clinicians away. New online systems would introduce more complex passwords to users already overburdened with remembering credentials. Multiple log ins/out, user lock-outs and time spent calling the help desk could frustrate users and jeopardize the EMR project. Any technology that reduced the amount of time spent caring for patients would be resisted by clinicians, and it was clear that electronic engagement was going to be a challenge, particularly with physicians.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">For Ed Ricks, Beaumont Memorial Hospital’s VP and CIO, understanding the physicians’ requirements and presenting a flexible solution that actually improved their productivity - while at the same time securing patient data - was key to their engagement, and ultimately attesting for Meaningful Use. By rethinking the way clinicians access the data they need, the IT team was able to develop an electronic system that delivered faster workflows and higher efficiency. Through a combination of virtual desktops, single sign-on and strong authentication, clinicians today have secure, one-touch access to roaming sessions that follow them throughout their shifts. Users access data at standalone office PCs, generic shared workstations, and virtual roaming desktops. They log in once at the start of their shifts, and move throughout their day during a predefined grace period, logging in and out of their sessions with a simple tap of their employee ID badges.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In this presentation, Ricks will describe the path that his team took to reach Stage 1 Meaningful Use and how they won over doctors and nurses by redefining the parameters of access to PHI.</p>