CHILDREN ’ S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY
“ OUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON ENHANCING THE PATIENT AND CLINICIAN EXPERIENCE . IT REALLY BEGAN WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EMR WHICH IS REALLY THE HUB OF THE ENGINE FROM WHICH EVERYTHING SPROUTS FROM ”
JOHN HENDERSON , VICE PRESIDENT & CIO , CHOC
well as our new mobile device management environment . So leveraging the VMware horizon infrastructure , which is actually running within our Amazon web services and cloud infrastructure was critical especially for our remote workforce .
“ ePlus was the vendor we worked with on our VAR basically to coordinate all of those efforts . The expertise they brought to the table was really the underlying understanding of our environment . But also the understanding of our culture and what we ' re really trying to accomplish . They took all of that information and really made sure that the resources working on our projects were in line with what we were trying to do .
Gold , who has been CTO at the hospital for nearly three years , said the future of IT would move towards a more virtual environment .
“ There will also be the continued expansion into the cloud as this is going to be key for us over the next few years , which really ties into big data , analytics and machine learning . There ' s a lot of focus right now in leveraging that data to help make the right clinical decisions on the right business decisions ,” he said .
The Bill Holmes Tower ushered in a new era for the hospital in 2013 . In January 2021 CHOC was certified as a Health Information Management Service ( HMIS ) level , state seven organisation . This was the third time it had achieved this designation and is one of the first paediatric hospitals in the US to have this status .
CHOC was recognised in January 2021 by The Leapfrog Group who named it as the top children ’ s hospital in South California . “ I think one of the things that makes CHOC
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