Bangkok--Feb 15--Bumrungrad Hospital
Bumrungrad Hospital’s state-of-the-art information technology system is the newest exhibit at the Intel Museum in Santa Clara, California. Located at Intel’s global headquarters, the museum attracts over 85,000 visitors annually and features a wide range of interactive exhibits displaying how Intel technology is developed, manufactured and used.
One of the newer exhibits, entitled “Digital Transformations”, traces the origins and advances in communicating over distances, recording sound and capturing images. Visitors to that exhibit can now see how digital technology is ‘transforming’ the healthcare industry.
Intel decided to showcase Bumrungrad Hospital in its Digital Transformations exhibit, because the hospital uses electronic medical records and digital radiology systems to capture and manage patient data, while most hospitals in the world are still using paper records and film for imaging.
Bumrungrad Hospital Group CEO, Mr. Curtis J. Schroeder, was invited to Intel headquarters to inaugurate the exhibit and to give a presentation to over 4,000 Intel marketing executives. Mr. Schroeder said it was “a great honor to be selected by Intel, a company recognized worldwide for its technology leadership.”
Bumrungrad Hospital manages all of its patient data on a single, integrated information system developed by Global Care Solutions (GCS) called Hospital2000. By contrast, many US medical centers run as many as 30 different software programs to manage their data.
The US government estimates that only 13% of hospitals in the country have adopted electronic medical record (EMR) technology, and the Bush administration has set forth a plan to make this technology standard in all hospitals within 10 years -- Bumrungrad has been operating EMR technology for the past 4 years.
In a recent article in Modern Healthcare, a leading US based trade journal for the hospital industry, Mark Blatt, Intel’s manager of healthcare strategies called Bumrungrad his “favorite hospital in the world” and lauded the hospital for its smart use of information technology. Karen Timmons, CEO of Joint Commission Resources, and a subsidiary of the US hospital accreditation authority JCAHO, validated that sentiment in the same article by saying Bumrungrad has done “a tremendous job” in its use and deployment of information technology.
Picture shows: Bumrungrad Hospital Group CEO, Mr. Curtis J. Schroeder (left) and Associate Curator, Tracey Mazur (right) at Intel Museum in Santa Clara, California.
About Bumrungrad Hospital
Bumrungrad Hospital is Southeast Asia’s premier private hospital and a regional referral center for advanced care, offering 554 beds, 30 specialty centers, 600 medical specialists and over 800 nurses. It is Thailand’s only JCIA accredited hospital and serves more than 900,000 patients yearly from over 140 countries.
About Global Care Solutions
Global Care Solutions (GCS) provides cost effective enterprise solutions for the global healthcare industry by delivering services based on their flagship products, Hospital 2000 and the Amalga RIS/PACS. State-of-the-art functionality
provided in easy to use, manageable software packages that operate on readily available Intel/Windows based platforms and hardware. See www.hospital2000.com for more information.
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