Carilion Clinic and CEO Edward G. Murphy, M.D. are one of three health care organizations to receive the 2009 CEO-IT Achievement Award from Modern Healthcare magazine
ROANOKE, Va. (February 19, 2009) Crediting Carilion Clinic and its Information Technology staff with orchestrating one of the “largest patient-data conversions ever conducted by a health system”, Modern Healthcare presented Carilion CEO Edward G. Murphy, M.D. with one of three 2009 CEO-IT Achievement Awards in the February 16th issue of the magazine.
ROANOKE, Va. (February 19, 2009) Crediting Carilion Clinic and its Information Technology staff with orchestrating one of the “largest patient-data conversions ever conducted by a health system”, Modern Healthcare presented Carilion CEO Edward G. Murphy, M.D. with one of three 2009 CEO-IT Achievement Awards in the February 16th issue of the magazine.
The magazine commends Carilion and its information technology staff for “bucking the trend” of slow IT investment across the industry. Carilion is engaged in a multi-million dollar initiative to convert the entire organization to single integrated electronic health record.
“This is a critical part of our effort to coordinate care around the patient and build a clinical support system for nurses, doctors and hospitals,” Murphy said. “This award belongs to Carilion’s staff and IT team, who have worked long hours and committed themselves to a successful transition. “
“This is a critical part of our effort to coordinate care around the patient and build a clinical support system for nurses, doctors and hospitals,” Murphy said. “This award belongs to Carilion’s staff and IT team, who have worked long hours and committed themselves to a successful transition. “
Dr. Murphy visits Carilion's Transfer Center, a health care "air traffic control tower" of sorts, where nurses track and coordinate patient traffic at Carilion hospitals, working to improve efficiency.
Modern Healthcare publisher Fawn Lopez writes that all three winners of the award demonstrate a strong commitment to collaboration. “We applaud their willingness to put aside competition in favor of patient-care improvement.” Lopez says. “Instead of using IT to gain a competitive edge, they use their expertise to help others…”Murphy and Carilion share the 2009 award with Michal Green, CEO of Concord (N.H.) Hospital, and Anthony Spezia, CEO of Covenant Health in Knoxville
