UPMC Wins Davies Award for Custom DWC Solution

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CHP LogoPittsburgh, PA:  The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC this week was named the 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient for two innovative solutions designed and implemented by Data Warehouse Consultants. The Davies Awards program promotes electronic health record-enabled improvement in patient outcomes through sharing of case studies and lessons learned across a wide range of efforts, including implementation strategies, workflow design, best practice development and adherence, and patient engagement that have improved care outcomes for patients.

This specific solution that earned UPMC the awards was the CHP Pharmacy MedEx Mobile Application, which uses mobile technology to accurate track the delivery of pharmaceuticals within the hospital. A second contributing solution was the CHP Breastmilk-Tracking Mobile Application, which uses mobile technology to accurately match babies with their mother’s breastmilk in the Neonatal ICU. For more information please visit the HIMSS Award Page.

About Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh: Renowned for its outstanding clinical services, research programs and medical education, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has helped establish the standards of excellence in pediatric care. From Ambulatory Care to Transplantation and Cardiac Care, talented and committed pediatric experts care for infants, children and adolescents who make more than 1,000,000 visits to Children’s, its many neighborhood locations, and Children’s Community Pediatrics practices each year.   (www.chp.edu)

About Data Warehouse Consultants:  Data Warehouse Consultants is a consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, PA.  Founded in 2004 the firm provides custom development services for web applications and corporate database and data warehouse environments.  (www.dwconsultants.com)

 

 

Neonatal Breastmilk Tracker

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intermecData Warehouse Consultants developed a system to help nurses and other caregivers verify that children residing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are given the correct mother’s breast milk when the mother chooses that option for her child. Prior to implementation of our solution there was a greater chance that confusion could occur with the breast milk bottles, and children could be given milk from an unrelated mother. There was also no audit trail to confirm the correct breast milk was given if a questionable situation arose. This solution provides mobile technology that verifies a match between the baby and the bottle before the breast milk is given.

Our solution provides a mobile application allowing the NICU caregiver to quickly scan a bar code on the bottle and the wristband of the baby to verify they are a match. It also allows for the common situation of multiple births, where one mother can provide breast milk for several babies. This simple system has been instrumental in reducing errors in breast milk delivery, and for providing an audit trail that confirm the correct milk was provided to each child in the NICU.

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International Services Database

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Data Warehouse Consultants collaborated with International Services at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to convert a Microsoft Access database used to track referrals for pediatric services for patients in global locations. The new application is enterprise-class and based on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server technologies. It is used by department staff to monitor referrals and track the workflow of new patient referrals from the time the original referral is received until the time when the patient arrives and receives services at Children’s Hospital.

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