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12 • Milwaukee Post • September 6, 2013 Health care systems to share patient information with electronic network By KATHERINE MICHALETS Special to The Post MILWAUKEE – The ability to care for a patient who enters the emergency room at one of Wheaton Franciscan's hospitals will soon be much easier thanks to the Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network, which is creating a large electronic database of patient records. Dr. Rita Hanson, chief medical officer for Wheaton Franciscan Health Care, said it 5 OFF (Dine In or Carry Out) Expires 9-20-13 Friday Fish Fry $895 All You Can Eat $1195 Saturday Special Ribeyes-2 for $25 Sofia's 7030 W. Lincoln 321-8600 234058129 1lb. Snow Crab Leg Dinner FRIDAY FISH FRY, 4:30pm-8pm: MEYER'S RESTAURANT & BAR Saturday Specials 10 oz. Cold Water Lobster Tail Dinner .....................................$19.99 16 oz. 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A benefit of the WISHIN database is making health care networks portable, Kachelski said, allowing records to follow a patient wherever they are receiving care. "Our aim is to be ubiquitous in the state," he said. Hanson said the main reason Wheaton Franciscan Health Care signed on to the database was to help emergency room patients and their doctors. "With WISHIN we get additional information about some of the testing and results that were done at other visits," she said. Hanson said she doesn't have any security concerns about the database, saying that the system has robust safeguards. Hall Dates Available 234058089 234058128 ✃ Any Large $ 00 4 Topping Pizza will be in the ER that the health care system will see the greatest benefit because doctors will be able to quickly learn if the patient has been treated recently and for what. WISHIN is an independent not-for-profit organization that is building a statewide health information network to connect physicians, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and clinical laboratories across Wisconsin. The database that WISHIN is creating should be up and running soon and will give doctors and other health care providers access to patients' medical histories, prescriptions, recent diagnoses, allergies and test results. WISHIN CEO Joe Kachelski said Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, Aurora Health Care, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Columbia St. Mary's and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin have all signed on to be part of the database. Christine Bessler, chief information officer and vice president of information technology for ProHealth Care, said they are in the final legal stages of joining the network. She said the benefit will be mostly for the patients. "We're happy to participate. 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