(photo by Anne Rayner)
Neal Patel, M.D., right, explains Vanderbilt’s electronic medical record system and computerized order entry systems to members of the British House of Commons health committee, who were visiting Nashville this week to review advances in health care and information management. Patel, VUMC chief medical informatics officer, demonstrated systems in the Pediatric Critical Care Unit of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.