Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)
Table of contents
- 1. PHR efforts
- 2. Key staff
A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is renowned for excellence in patient care, biomedical research, teaching and community service. Located in the heart of Boston's medical community, it hosts nearly three quarters of a million patient visits annually in and around Boston.
Decades before Beth Israel and Deaconess hospitals came together as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, each was a leader in health care with a long history of personalized patient care and community service. In 1896, as part of their missionary charter, Methodist deaconesses founded Deaconess Hospital to care for the city's residents. In 1916, Beth Israel Hospital was established by the Boston Jewish community to meet the needs of the growing immigrant population.
Source: http://www.bidmc.harvard.edu/
PHR efforts
BIDMC has been running a patient portal since 2000. See PatientSite at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 2008 the hospital integrated the portal with Google Health.
Key staff
Paul Levy is CEO. His blog is important and entertaining to read:
John Halamka (PubMed literature search) is one of the most accomplished CIOs in the world and is a key figure in PHR deployments. His blog is worth readig:
- Tag page
- What links here
