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How Health IT Gave Back Every Children's National Doc a Dozen Minutes Each Day

Health Leaders: In a sweeping initiative to improve the clinician experience, Children’s National Hospital set its sights on designing a virtual desktop that follows staff around the health system and reduces logins from minutes to seconds. About one year later, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, that's exactly what the Washington, D.C.-based health system accomplished.

A key health information technology enabler for Children’s National is its Bear Institute, a unique 2013 partnership between the health system and EHR vendor Cerner Corporation. In 2018, innovation leaders at Children’s noticed some degradation of its clinician workflow environment, and decided to redesign it from the ground up, according to Matt McVey, vice president and chief information officer at Children’s National.

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