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Award winning electronic whiteboard at Waikato Hospital

Award winning electronic whiteboard at Waikato Hospital

Datacom picked up the business intelligence award at the Microsoft NZ partner finals in Auckland last night with its e-clinical whiteboard solution used in the new Acute Services Building at Waikato Hospital.

A key source of patient information for the medical staff at Waikato District Health Board was a manual whiteboard located in the staff workroom on the ward. An imminent plan to relocate some of the wards into a new building layout meant that the existing whiteboard system was no longer going to be a practical option.

Waikato DHB worked with Datacom to design and build a new electronic whiteboard system designed in .NET and based on a Microsoft SQL Server platform. Patient information is now handled once, electronically stored and available in real time.

Read more at http://www.waikatodhb.govt.nz/page/pageid/2145873885

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