Case Study: Duncan Regional Hospital: Document Imaging Leads The Way To Improved Patient Care

"Hospitals are empowering patients with information and providing tools to doctors and nurses to improve quality," says Alden Solovy, executive director of Hospital's Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, which has named the 100 Most Wired Hospitals and health systems annually for five years.

According to the 2003 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study, conducted by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, Duncan Regional Hospital (Duncan, OK) was named one of the nation's Most Wired-Small and Rural Hospitals. In 2004, Duncan was again named a Most Wired Small and Rural Hospital as well as a 2004 Most Improved Hospital, and recently in 2005, Duncan was named to the Most Wired Most Wireless category of hospitals.

Duncan is a nationally accredited, not-for-profit, 148-bed acute care facility located in Duncan, OK, which services more than 7,000 patient visits every month. In 2003 when Duncan and its staff of 870 professionals began to consider how to use technology to drive patient care, they thought long and hard about their exact objectives.