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Eight Hospitals and Counting: Trinity Health Continues
Nation’s Largest Community-Based Hospital IT Initiative

Eight Hospital Systems Now Live with Registration and Medical Record System

Novi, Michigan – Trinity Health, the nation’s fourth-largest Catholic health system, recently notched its eighth successive hospital system activation of HealthQuest and Cerner PowerChart applications in support of clinical documentation and CPOE.

CPOE is one component of a $315 million initiative known as Project Genesis, an integral element of Trinity Health’s process improvement initiative to implement an integrated registration and electronic health record system throughout the organization. Trinity Health is one of the first multi-state health systems to engage in a large-scale initiative to increase efficiency and improve quality of care, using computerized tools to support clinical process improvements.

When all of Trinity Health’s facilities are live with the systems, Trinity Health will become the third-largest clinical repository of evidence-based knowledge after Kaiser Permanente and the Veterans Administration. Already, the clinical data repository maintains records for more than 4.5 million patients, a figure that will increase dramatically over the next few years.

“With acute-care community hospitals located in seven states, the geographic span and clinical experience within Trinity Health is among the most diverse in the country,” said Dr. Narendra Kini, MD, Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations Improvement, Trinity Health. “One of the many advantages of having clinical technology across all Trinity Health hospitals is the fact that we will now be able to improve care delivery in remote areas where it’s difficult to gain access to a specialist.”

To date, eight of Trinity Health’s Ministry Organizations have implemented CPOE in tandem with a new pharmacy system, online nursing documentation and in some cases, new Emergency Department and radiology / imaging systems.

A ninth site, St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Mich., is slated to activate the Project Genesis systems in March 2006.

A primary goal of Project Genesis is to leverage the changes in people, process and technology to increase patient safety and quality of care. Project Genesis is fundamentally changing the way Trinity Health’s physicians look at drug orders, clinical quality indicators and error reporting.

“Project Genesis gives Trinity Health the opportunity to improve in the areas that are absolutely critical: limiting mistakes, cutting out waste, eliminating missed opportunities. These are the prizes.”