HP Intros Digital Hospital Solution to Improve Healthcare, Address Patient Priorities

HP, a provider of printing and personal computing products and information technology (IT) services, recently introduced its new Digital Hospital Solution, designed to help global healthcare providers improve their operational and business processes.

 

The HP Digital Hospital Solution integrates technologies and services from both HP and its partners. The goal is to align technology with business by helping hospitals and healthcare providers address the priorities of patients.

 

This solution includes a variety of tools for digitizing healthcare systems, including architecture redesign services, current state assessment, and implementation planning. That last item includes information management, infrastructure implementation and full integration. The solution provides hospitals with services that can enhance their performance in a quick and cost-effective way.

 

The solution helps improve asset management with its location-based services and active radio frequency tags that allow hospital staff to locate resources faster. An archiving component reduces the costs associated with picture archiving communication systems (PACS), and enables image sharing.

 

Clients using HP’s solution gain more efficient navigation of patient data, resulting in improved treatment outcomes. Patient condition information can be conveyed in real-time using an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

 

“Organizations are looking to respond to a rapidly changing healthcare market requiring them to improve the quality of their medical care, increase overall efficiency, reduce cost and become more accountable to the patient,” said Jeff Miller, vice president for the Worldwide Health and Life Sciences division at HP, in a statement. “HP's Digital Hospital Solution delivers these outcomes and ensures that patients around the world will benefit from this forward-looking approach to healthcare.”

 

HP’s digital solution is already in use at the recently opened Akershus University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, where administrators expect to see a 20 percent reduction in operational costs coupled with enhanced service and treatment methodology. The solution has also been deployed at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), Latin American General Hospital, University Health Network (UHN) and The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.