Founded and sponsored in 1925 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, the Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey has grown to become a comprehensive 361-bed acute care medical centre that consistently remembers its community hospital roots.  Holy Name Hospital provides high quality health care across a continuum that extends from prevention through treatment and on toward recovery and wellness. For more information, please visit: http://www.holyname.org/

The Application

Holy Name Hospital of Teaneck, New Jersey selected JAOtech Smart Terminals for its second generation bedside entertainment and communication system. Holy Name Hospital is one of the US pioneers of patient bedside all-in-one computers, and the 340 JAOtech Jima units replace its existing six year old terminal estate, upgrading the entertainment system enabling future access to patient electronic medical records (EMR).

The Deployment
Holy Name Hospital was one of the first in the US to offer patients "triple play" bedside entertainment. It plans to use the JAOtech terminals as a basis to deliver secure medical records access functions to the patient's bedside. Frank Marano, Systems Infrastructure Director, Information Technology at the hospital said, "The JAOtech terminals not only offer patients an exceptionally high quality presentation of multimedia content from video, TV and Internet, but also have the capacity to support other functions such as secure access to clinical information at the bedside. This function is currently in the process of being implemented and will use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) staff badges supplied by HID to provide convenient and secure access."

 What the hospital thought

Frank Marano said, "With the JAOtech terminals we are leveraging the latest technology to fulfil our patients entertainment needs.  We are impressed with the high quality design and medical grade finish to the JAOtech terminals, its all-in-one design is much more practical and stylish than our previous units while providing greater reliability and ease of use. We anticipate that we will recoup our investment in the new infrastructure in around 3 years, based on productivity improvements as well as revenue from the sale of entertainment services to patients."

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