Message from the CEO
Momentum Through People, Technology and Teamwork

This edition of Connections highlights the efforts of our Medical Center staff to maximize every asset and resource for one purpose—to elevate our mission of excellent, discovery-driven patient care. Our investments in technology, people, quality and safety are producing tangible and visible results. As we approach the final months of 2006, you will see momentum throughout the Medical Center.  

Electronic Medication Order Entry will Optimize Patient Safety

The countdown has begun toward an important patient safety milestone for the Medical Center — 100 percent electronic order entry for all tests and medications by October 2007. To achieve that goal, the medical center has launched Cerner Millennium Optimization, a program that involves physicians, nurses, pharmacists, information technology staff and administrators from throughout the medical center.