Aurora Health Care Named Among ‘Most Wired Providers’ Eight Years in a Row

Aurora Health Care named among ‘Most Wired Providers’ eight years in a row

Milwaukee, Wis. -- Aurora Health Care has been named one of the Most Wired health care providers for the eighth consecutive year by Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine. Aurora is the only southeastern Wisconsin health care system to receive this recognition consecutively.

The 100 Most Wired hospitals have higher patient satisfaction scores, lower risk-adjusted mortality rates and better results on other key quality measures because of their use of information technology, according to a new analysis.

Philip Loftus, PhD, Aurora vice president and chief information officer, said the eight consecutive honors demonstrates “Aurora's long-term commitment to the belief that information technology contributes effectively to the quality of patient care and safety, and the reduction of overall healthcare costs."

Loftus said that Aurora is always looking to enhance its use of electronic health records (EHR).

“Aurora continues to maintain its leadership in the use of IT,” he said. “This reflects the contribution and commitment of the whole IT organization with the clinical leadership teams in Aurora’s 15 hospitals.”

The Most Wired Survey is conducted annually by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the journal of the American Hospital Association, which uses the results to name the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems. It focuses on how the nation's hospitals use information technologies for quality, customer service, public health and safety, business processes and work force issues.

Hospitals & Health Networks conducted the 2011 survey in cooperation with McKesson Corp., the American Hospital Association and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. The July H&HN cover story detailing results is available at www.hhnmag.com.

About the Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study
Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, conducts the voluntary Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study annually and names the 100 Most Wired.

McKesson Corporation is the world's largest healthcare services, technology and automation company.

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives was formed with the dual objective of serving the professional development needs of healthcare chief information officers and advocating the more effective use of information management within health care.

About Aurora Health Care
Aurora Health Care is a not-for-profit Wisconsin health care provider and a national leader in efforts to improve the quality of health care. Aurora offers care at sites in more than 90 communities throughout eastern Wisconsin.