Cianciotto J P
Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens, Jamaica, NY.
Health Prog. 1990 Oct;71(8):32-4.
Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens (CMC), Jamaica, NY, is a multihospital system that is concerned with providing a more cost-effective method of delivering healthcare in an urban environment. To reach this goal CMC centralized its laboratory services to save time, cut costs, and ultimately improve patient care. The centralized laboratory's manual delivery and tracking system put in place at first appeared to hinder the success of the centralized laboratory concept. Through a detailed planning and review process, CMC then implemented a multihospital laboratory information system to allow the centralized laboratory (1) to electronically access patient information from any on-line hospital and (2) to transmit test results back to the originating hospital. CMC believed the automated system would improve the quality of care, reduce the number of duplicated tests, eliminate late charges, and reduce the length of a patient's hospital stay. Since the implementation of the laboratory management system, its member hospitals agree that CMC has finally begun to realize the full benefits of its centralized laboratory services.
纽约牙买加的布鲁克林和皇后区天主教医疗中心（CMC）是一个多医院系统，致力于在城市环境中提供更具成本效益的医疗服务方式。为实现这一目标，CMC将其实验室服务集中化，以节省时间、削减成本并最终改善患者护理。起初建立的集中实验室的人工传送和跟踪系统似乎阻碍了集中实验室概念的成功。通过详细的规划和审查过程，CMC随后实施了一个多医院实验室信息系统，使集中实验室能够：（1）以电子方式从任何联网医院获取患者信息；（2）将检测结果传输回原发医院。CMC认为自动化系统将提高护理质量、减少重复检测的数量、消除滞纳金并缩短患者住院时间。自实验室管理系统实施以来，其成员医院一致认为CMC终于开始充分实现其集中实验室服务的全部益处。
