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Healthcare Journal of New Orleans
NOV/DEC 2012
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critical care physicians and nurses using
advanced software and continuous re-
mote monitoring technology from Philips.
The software detects and advises clini-
cians of important trends and changes in
a patient’s condition, enabling more pro-
active care with fewer complications. Use
of the 2-way audio-video capability also
allows the off-site physician to interact
and collaborate with the bedside medi-
cal team and the patient’s family to make
important, time-sensitive patient care
decisions.
Ochsner Medical Center campuses at
Kenner, Baton Rouge, and Baptist imple-
mented the program earlier this year and
Ochsner Medical Center and the West
Bank campus added the system to their
Critical Care Units in October.
STPH Announces
New Partnerships
St. Tammany Parish Hospital announced
that the following physicians have joined
its medical staff:
• Dr. Gary Agena, Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Madisonville
• Dr. Andrew Baier, STPH Hospital
Medicine, Covington
• Dr. Bryan DiBuono,
Gastroenterology, Slidell
• Dr. L. Phillips Jenkins,
Gastroenterology, Covington
• Dr. Myria Mack-Williams, Pediatrics,
Covington
• Dr. Anthony McDavid, Pediatrics,
Covington
• Dr. Jessica Rinaldo, Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Covington
• Dr. Katie Taranto, Internal Medicine,
Covington
• Dr. Judith Zatarain, STPH NICU,
Covington.
SMH Recognized for
Cost Management
Slidell Memorial Hospital was awarded
the Cost Management Performance Best
Practice Award. at the 2012 MedAssets
Healthcare Business Summit held re-
cently in Las Vegas. This award is given
annually to healthcare providers who have
achieved significant documented savings.
MedAssets helped SMH recognize signifi-
cant contract savings in 2011 through the
company’s Spend and Clinical Resource
Management solutions and services.
LSU EMR Gains Kudos
The Interim LSU Public Hospital (ILH) in
New Orleans has received national rec-
ognition for its sophisticated electronic
health record system and its use through-
out ILH. LSU Health is implementing PELI-
CAN, with its single, integrated database,
in all ten of its hospitals, giving providers
throughout the LSU Health system imme-
diate access to patient records whenever
a patient receives care from LSU or its af-
filiated clinics.
HIMSS Analytics announced that ILH
achieved Stage 6 on its Electronic Medical
Record Adoption Model. Stage 6 hospitals
have the following attributes:
• Have made significant executive com-
mitments and investments to reach this
stage;
• Appear to have a significant advan-
tage over competitors for patient safety,
clinician support, clinician recruitment and
competitive marketing for both consumers
and nurse recruitment;
• Have almost fully automated/paper-
less medical records when they have imple-
mented their IT applications across most of
the inpatient care settings;
• Are either starting to evaluate data
for care-delivery process improvements
or have already documented significant
improvements in this area;
• Have made investments that are within
reach of most hospitals and recognize the
strategic value of improving patient care
with the electronic medical record;
• Have begun to create strategic align-
ments with their medical staff to effectively
use information technology to improve the
patient safety environment;
• Are well positioned to provide data
to key stakeholders, such as payers, the
government, physicians, consumers and
employers to support electronic health
record environments and health informa-
tion exchanges.
On July 29, ILH went live with PELICAN
throughout the facility, in inpatient and
outpatient settings, surgery, the emer-
gency department and business suites.
By June 2013, all LSU hospitals and 500
physician clinics will be linked and using
PELICAN.
Shown with the award presentation are (from left) MedAssets Regional Client Manager Amanda
Cannizzaro, Central Zone MedAssets Vice President Cindy Lemoine, SMH Chief Executive Officer Bill
Davis, SMH Purchasing Agent Ben Bilica and SMH Materials Management Director Barry Winters.