CHOC continues the deployment of its new physician communication platform PingMD, a medical messaging app. With over 400 users and counting, we are realizing the benefit of a HIPAA secure texting solution. To simplify its use, CHOC has introduced and in-house physician directory by specialty. If you haven’t downloaded the PingMD app yet, just go to the Apple App Store […]
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CHOC Receives International Recognition for its State-of-the-Art Electronic Medical Record Systems
CHOC Hospital recently became one of eight children’s hospitals in the nation, and the only one on the West Coast, to receive the elite Stage 7 designation for its advanced electronic medical record systems, from HIMSS Analytics, an international leader in healthcare information. We spoke to Dr. Bill Feaster, chief medical information officer at CHOC, […]
Orange County Medical Association’s “Physicians of Excellence” Partners with the Orange County Register
Please see notice sent from Orange County Medical Association regarding the Physicians of Excellence recognition program: Physicians of Excellence will now be published in one of the Orange County Register publications in early spring 2015. OCMA‘s new partnership with the Orange County Register elevates the stature of the program, broadens the recognition of the physician […]
Kimberly Chavalas Cripe Elected to Board of Trustees of the Children’s Hospital Association
CHOC President and CEO Kimberly Chavalas Cripe has been elected to the board of trustees of the Children’s Hospital Association. She will begin her term on January 1, 2015. Cripe brings more than two decades of health care leadership experience to the board, including serving as CHOC’s president and CEO since 1997. She served two […]
CHOC at Mission Hospital Opens State-of-the-Art Sleep Center
Families in South Orange County now have access to a state-of-the-art Sleep Center for children who need overnight monitoring to diagnose problems related to sleep. The new three-room unit at CHOC at Mission Hospital offers private, comfortable accommodations and the latest technology for routine polysomnograms. CHOC already performs more than 750 sleep studies a year […]
World’s first “infusionarium” comes to CHOC
CHOC’s “infusionarium” allows kids receiving chemotherapy or IV antibiotics the chance to watch movies and play games on a big screen.
