E-Hospital: the Future of Hospitals

" You start feeling that. They are at Swedish covenant hospital -- deep -- Yes doctor Andrew Costello legs -- was Luis Cardenas who says he can't breathe. Well let me get some breathing treatments will get some steroids will do chest X -- Many later computer takes the doctor's orders including their chest -- right. Orders -- done and wirelessly connected technicians rather waited a patient's room. In about twenty minutes the X rays done in the electronic medical record and anyone at the computer terminal in the ER can review it. Precious minutes saved when it's an emergency. And is a 21 year old male comes in complaining as it makes no paper charts taking notes -- complaints about doctors' handwriting in this CR a speech recognition programs turns a doctor's words and to print -- complain of -- congestion which means patients like -- only explain their medical history one. Then it's gonna record for anyone to read. In seven year old I use his room workers alerted by hand held device first checked the girls bar coded wrist band and take blood. That's embarked code goes on her blood samples and everything is literally shot up to a second floor -- out."

" The average turnaround time is about thirty to 32 minutes or any how -- for -- street where what are the -- workers is a million dollar automated system do we hundreds of tests and our place consume on the line and that mark -- that's on that lets -- that doesn't -- that's about it throughout the entire process lab manager Susan Dawson explains. It'll -- from instrument instrument. And only stopping and that's where Britney it's actual testing done."

" A system that doesn't get tired distracted and upset or overwork. And neither does the automated pharmacy where a nurse gets mad Luis Cardenas -- It does it exact prescription in the electronic medical record and a bedside a nurse scans his wrist band. -- Deceit and it matches the bar code on the Madison. Preventing human prescription errors. For NBC 739. -- consumer Bob."