Middlesex Hospital Named 'Most Wired' for the 4th Time

Middlesex Hospital has been recognized for the fourth time as one of the nation’s Most Wired, according to the results of the 2015 Most Wired Survey, released in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. Middlesex Hospital also received the Most Wired designation in 2012, 2013 and 2014. This year, Middlesex Hospital was also an Innovator Award Finalist.

As hospitals and health systems transition to value-based care, the survey found that they are increasingly utilizing information technology to facilitate information exchange across care settings with the use of a physician portal. In 84 percent of Most Wired hospitals, physicians can view and exchange medical results with other facilities. Seventy-six percent of Most Wired hospitals use the portal and electronic health record (EHR) to exchange results with other EHRs and health information exchanges. Eighty-one percent communicate with patients through e-mails or alerts. Many Most Wired hospitals also provide a patient portal, with 89 percent offering this through a mobile application.

This year, the survey also found that hospitals are taking more aggressive privacy and security measures to protect and safeguard patient data. Top growth areas in security among this year’s award-winning hospitals included privacy audit systems, provisioning systems, data loss prevention, single sign-on, and identity management.