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Some patient portal applications enable patients to register and complete forms online, which can streamline visits to clinics and hospitals. Many portal applications also enable patients to request prescription refills online, order eyeglasses and contact lenses, access medical records, pay bills, review lab results, and schedule medical ...
MedStar Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization. It operates more than 120 entities, including ten hospitals in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area of the United States . In 2011 it was ranked as the private sector employer with the largest number of local employees in the region.
On May 7, 1998, Medlantic Healthcare Group, the Hospital Center's not-for-profit parent company, merged with Helix Health, a group of four Baltimore, MD-based hospitals, making the combined company the largest health care provider in the mid-Atlantic region. Helix/Medlantic was renamed MedStar Health on February 1, 1999.
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital works closely with the university's research enterprise to help bring innovative therapies from the scientific laboratory to the patient bedside. The hospital, now more than 80 percent renovated, houses multiple patient units, hospital administration offices, and hospital support services.
In computing, an enterprise[-wide] master patient index is a form of customer data integration (CDI) specific to the healthcare industry.Healthcare organizations and groups use EMPI to identify, match, merge, de-duplicate, and cleanse patient records to create a master index that may be used to obtain a complete and single view of a patient.
In 1994, the hospital joined the Helix Health Network. [4] In 1999, Good Samaritan Hospital joined MedStar Health after being affiliated with Helix Health Network. It is the only Catholic hospital in the MedStar network. In January 2010, Good Samaritan named Jeffrey A. Matton its new president, replacing Larry Beck, who retired. [5]
In 1909, Dr. Jacob Wheeler Bird arrived in Sandy Spring to begin a medical practice and set out to establish the only hospital in Montgomery County. In 1919, eight women, who met to roll bandages and sew for community organizations, turned their energies toward raising funds for the new hospital.
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital is a non-profit, acute care teaching hospital located in the North Central section of Baltimore, Maryland. The hospital is a member of MedStar Health , a community-based network of Baltimore/ Washington, D.C. area hospitals and other health care services.