Fort Wayne, Indiana may not be a household name, but its hospital and physician connectivity set the city apart.
Healthdatamanagement.com
July 2009
Tucked in the northeast corner of Indiana, Fort Wayne is an unlikely mecca for health care connectivity—or care delivery. It lacks a big-name academic medical center, and the state is not exactly synonymous with technological innovation. Yet, the former military outpost may qualify as health care I.T.’s best-kept secret. Its two main health systems—which have the majority of the market in the city of 250,000—sport highly automated inpatient operations. Furthermore, the town’s physician practices are also highly digitized, with local experts pegging their EHR penetration rate well above national averages.
