These Epic implementations successfully introduced new technologies focused on patient safety, including barcode medicine administration and Houston Methodist MyChart. More than 181,000 patients have activated MyChart accounts. (Read More)
Epic. Mission accomplished.
We’ve completed a $293 million Epic rollout in eight major Go-Lives from March 2016 to June 2017.
No taking off work, fighting traffic, paying parking fees or losing your car in a multi-story garage. No arranging child or elder care, or lost wages. Plus, you can avoid exposure to waiting room pathogens, or spreading your germs to others. (Read More)
The doctor will see you now. On your smartphone.
All it takes is a webcam and an internet connection. You can use your smartphone, tablet or desktop.
Our clinicians and researchers push the limits to continually improve care. To provide simple technology and support has incredible potential to enhance the patient experience. (Read More)
CIO Corner.
One of the things I enjoy most is deploying technology that helps our clinicians improve patient care above and beyond what they do each day.
The driving force behind the technology — making your experience and our patients’ simple, intuitive and safe. (Read More)
Uploading Houston Methodist The Woodlands.
Networks. Applications. Data. Laptops. Docking stations. Even the TVs in patient rooms. That’s what it takes to upload a new hospital.
Back on Earth, we use this high-energy radiation to shrink and kill cancer cells. For about half of all cancer patients, radiation therapy is part of the treatment plan. It’s a powerful tool that damages the DNA in tumor cells, causing cell death. (Read More)
Shrinking tumors. A new system makes it easier.
X-rays, gamma rays, charged particles. If you’re thinking Star Wars, intergalactic warfare probably does include this type of radiation.
Now, for first time at Houston Methodist, executives can see clinical and financial data on the same dashboard. (Read More)
Epic dashboards. Enabling better decision-making.
Measurement has always driven our clinical and financial decision-making. But metrics haven't always been easy to find.