Building a Digital Hospital
November 1, 2011 | Terry Sharrer
It’s not quite an autonomous hospital, but the new, 800-bed Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia will have HP’s Digital Hospital infrastructure that integrates all information systems-from environmental services, to patient records, to workflow management, to all communications systems, to asset tracking, et al. -in real time. It’s not a great leap to foresee how this could be applied over an entire healthcare system for multiple care venues, including patients’ homes. MORE