GRH honored for use of technology in patient care

Grande Ronde Hospital was awarded the Most Wired award by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives for 2019 for the integration of technology into its systems. GRH is a level 7, which means it uses technology to help analyze patient trends in addition to creating more effective and efficient care for patients. 

In 2018, the hospital changed its operating system to become more digitized with a patient-centered focus. This shift allowed for a person’s records to be viewable from any department in the hospital and included a new patient portal called MyChart. The Most Wired award is evidence of the success of the new system. 

According to GRH’s chief information officer, Parhez Sattar, not every hospital uses technology, and health care is one of the slowest types of services to adopt it, as it is more focused on human interaction. 

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