The Center for Connected Medicine recently welcomed its 10,000th
visitor just two-and-a-half years after opening its doors.
The milestone was achieved during an event hosted by Johnson Controls,
one of the Center’s nine strategic partners. Johnson Controls, a global
leader in delivering solutions that increase energy efficiency in
buildings, introduces visitors to the Center to highlight how health
care organizations can improve quality through integrated information
technologies and energy efficient operations.
“We believe that the hospital’s building environment and the
technologies that support it play a critical role in quality patient
care,” says James Dagley, vice president of channel marketing and
strategy for Johnson Controls. “The Center for Connected Medicine helps
us tell that story to our customers, prospects and partners.”
Established in September 2009 and comprised of five founding and nine
strategic partners, the Center for Connected Medicine is the world’s
first collaborative health care executive briefing center. Visitors
experience the outcomes of today’s fragmented approach to health care,
and are introduced to new models of care and emerging technologies that
show great promise as connectivity enablers.
“The Center was born from a vision that health care in America can truly
be transformed—not sometime or somewhere in the distant future, but
through the thought leadership and commitment to innovation that exists
here and now,” notes Andrew Watson, MD, MLitt, FACS, medical director
for the Center. “Our message clearly has resonated with the industry,
evidenced by increased utilization of the Center. Our partners are
finding that the visitors they host are eager for new ideas and excited
about the solutions we are able to demonstrate.”
The Center is an embodiment of the attitude that must be adopted to
effect change, he adds. “Our partners are diverse, individual
enterprises. Nevertheless, they have come together to address the
problems plaguing health care—just as stakeholders along the continuum
of care must collaborate to improve performance and outcomes.”
ABOUT THE CENTER FOR CONNECTED MEDICINE
The Center for Connected Medicine is defining the transformation of
health care by serving as a global thought leader. The world’s first
collaborative health care executive briefing center, it is developing
the blueprint for innovative patient-centered and population health
models using strategically integrated health information technology
solutions. Based in Pittsburgh, the Center is comprised of five founding
partners—Alcatel-Lucent, GE, IBM, UPMC and Verizon—and nine strategic
partners representing multiple facets of the HIT community. By engaging
health care stakeholders—policy-makers, providers, payers, vendors—the
Center promotes cultural change, coordinated care delivery, and greater
patient accountability to improve access, cost and quality on a societal
level. To learn more about connected medicine, as well as the Center’s
vision and initiatives, please visit www.connectedmed.com.
ABOUT JOHNSON CONTROLS
Johnson Controls delivers products, services and solutions that increase
energy efficiency and lower operating costs in buildings for more than
one million customers. Operating from 500 branch offices in more
than 150 countries, the company is a leading provider of equipment,
controls and services for heating, ventilating, air-conditioning,
refrigeration and security systems. Johnson Controls is involved in more
than 500 renewable energy projects including solar, wind and geothermal
technologies. Its solutions have reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 16
million metric tons and generated savings of $7.5 billion since 2000.
Many of the world’s largest companies rely on Johnson Controls to manage
1.5 billion square feet of their commercial real estate.
