Lifespan Named a Top 100 Integrated Health Network
(posted January 28, 2010)
The Lifespan health care system has been named one of the Top 100 Integrated Health Networks in the United States. The selection process rates health care networks on their performance level and degree of integration in eight categories such as clinical integration, technology integration, use, services offered, financial stability and physician participation.
Lifespan was one of only seven integrated health networks in New England to be included in the Top 100. Lifespan has been included on the Top 100 list seven times in prior years by SDI, a data and analytics firm, which has tracked integrated health networks and looked at critical success factors since 1994. The survey was previously performed by Verispan, which was acquired by SDI in 2008.
Lifespan President and CEO George Vecchione said, “We are pleased to again receive this distinction, which recognizes our continued progress toward integrating safety and quality throughout our four hospitals. We have implemented system-wide initiatives, such as electronic health records, medication safety and computerized physician order entry, and have centralized many functions thereby allowing our hospitals to focus on providing even better care for our patients.”