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Vital Signs
Facts & Figures - Chew on these bytes!
Health care today involves processing reams of data. Actually, make that bytes of data, trillions of bytes of data. Here are a few bits and . . . er, bytes . . . of insight into the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Information Systems (IS) universe.
6,000
Desktop and laptop computers supported
60
Terabytes of data stored (a terabyte being a trillion bytes)
20,000
Telephone and data jacks maintained
13,000
E-mail accounts maintained
4,000
Help desk calls handled monthly
8,000,000
Lines of medical dictation transcribed annually
1,000,000
Medical records stored
200
Staff members employed by Information Systems
5
Number of consecutive years (2002-2007) Dartmouth-Hitchcock
has been recognized in Hospitals and Health Networks
magazine's "Most Wired" Benchmarking Study
2.1%
Cost of IS at DHMC as a percentage of operating expenditures
(compared to a median of 2.7% for all "Most Wired" respondents)
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