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Trinity’s I.T. Program Hits Iowa


August 15, 2008

Three rural hospitals in Iowa have implemented electronic health records software from Cerner Corp., Kansas City, Mo.

The hospitals--Kossuth Regional Health Center in Algona, Franklin General Hospital in Hampton and Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage--are part of 44-hospital Trinity Health, Novi, Mich. Trinity is in the midst of a systemwide implementation--called Genesis--of Cerner’s clinical software, financial/administrative/lab systems from McKesson Corp., and supply chain management software from Lawson Software Inc., St. Paul, Minn.

The three hospitals are the first of seven rural facilities in northern Iowa to implement the Cerner software, which includes the PowerChart, FirstNet, RadNet, Profile and PharmNet modules. They are not implementing McKesson applications, but keeping existing registration and accounting systems. The other four hospitals will follow suit in September. The seven hospitals are affiliated with Mercy Medical Center in Mason City, which implemented the applications in 2005. The rural hospitals at a later time will implement the Lawson software.

The hospitals implementing Cerner and McKesson in September are Hancock County Health Services in Britt, Palo Alto County Health System in Emmetsburg, Ellsworth Municipal Hospital in Iowa Falls and Mercy Medical Center in New Hampton.

Two grants from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality help fund implementation of the Iowa hospitals. The clinical systems include computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support.

Trinity Health will continue the rollout during the next 18 months with implementations at some of its biggest hospitals in California, Idaho, Maryland and Michigan. More information is available at trinity-health.org.

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