• Shows the disposition and location of the patient at all times
• Provides instant access to the chart
• Decreases turnaround times (TAT)
• Eliminates manual and duplicate orders and results
• Streamlines patient flow using bedside registration and documentation
• Enables multiple staff members to access the chart simultaneously
• Instantly retrieves information on previous visits
• Automatically prints charts, prescriptions and specimen labels
• Provides a list of referral physicians, addresses and directions
• Eliminates manual data entry
- Increased patient throughput
- Eliminates Bottlenecks
- Eliminates 30%-40% of nurse and physician time spent on non-care activities i.e.: looking for charts, tracking down lab results, mobilizing staff, and repeatedly recording information that someone else has already recorded
- Provides accurate, legible and timely orders and results
- Applying technology and streamlining processes can help reduce overcrowding by making emergency departments more efficient
• Provides Clinicians access to information throughout the department via:
- Patient Tracking Display
- Clinical Documentation
- Orders and Results
• Eliminates “lost” patients
• Admissions tracking eliminates “forgotten” admissions
• Enables staff to easily prioritize tasks
• Reduces departmental noise
• Provides mission critical reliability
- Sharing of ”complete” medical record
• Provides documentation templates that ensure CMS compliance
• Integrates voice recognition and eliminates transcription and dictation
• Increases efficiency with bedside documentation
- 100% electronic user-friendly clinical documentation
- Eliminates coding variability, applying CMS coding rules precisely and consistently
- Eliminates un-billable charts due to illegibility or lack of signatures
• Eliminates manual data collection
• Automatically generates department log
• Reports on patient load enable more accurate staffing
• Decreases waiting times and length of stay
• Fewer elopements, walk outs, AMAs
• Decreases noise
• Department viewed as state of the art
- Decreased TAT
- Decreased LWBS
- Decreased Door to Doc
- Decreased time on Q & A
- Reduced patient wait time and length of stay
• Printed discharge instructions and prescriptions reduce hospital liability
• Eliminates “lost” patients
• Unresolved issues tracking eliminates potential litigation
- Decreased documentation omissions
- Increased patient safety
- Legible documentation
• Reports help focus on department inefficiencies
• Automatic reporting provides clear, meaningful statistics
- ED patient information will be on one system
- Resource for Quality Management, Risk Management, Strategic Planning & Infection Control
• Positive publicity is generated in a high visibility department
• Assists in attracting and retaining top notch clinicians
• Boosts staff morale
- Customer Service is improved & patient volumes are increased, making the hospital more profitable
• Multi-level read/write security
• Automatic ‘authoring’ of nursing and physician documentation
• Improved HIPAA compliance
• Objective quantification of Level of Service
• Timely coding for billing
• Fewer dropped charges
• Customizable to meet institutional preferences
• Eliminates manual data collection
• Monitor bell distribution of levels of service
• Monitor outstanding, incomplete charts
• Standard platform – Win 2000/XP
• Standard hardware – Intel-based PCs utilized for workstations & servers
• LAN/WAN
• Industry standard Oracle database
• HL7 Interfaces – via TCP/IP, FTP, flat file
• Experienced Project Manager guides each implementation
• Complete on site user training
• Citrix / thin client option
• Highly configurable
- Customizations completed in a matter of minutes
- Interfaces with all major Hospital Information Systems
- Mission Critical Reliability
• Remote updating and troubleshooting via PC Anywhere
• Integrated system diagnostics
• Bandwidth throttling
• Integrated back-ups without system downtime
• 24/7 support, guaranteed 15 minute response time
• Custom reports and configurations handled with quick turnaround
• System in use for 5+ years at many sites nationally
• Provides quality discharge instructions, prescriptions and work/school releases
• Decreases departmental noise
• Department viewed as state-of-the-art facility
• Decreases waiting times
• Decreases length of stay
