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Healthcare Information System Promotes Patient
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Medinews.com - April 30, 2004
Enhancements to a healthcare information system are designed to
support patient safety and create an integrated electronic health
record in a hospital setting.
These enhancements include a physician order
entry that helps speed implementation and promotes acceptance
of computerized physician order entry. This feature also saves
time by using specialty-based order sets, synonym searching, and
content and tools to streamline use. Another enhancement is a
clinical notification inbox, which provides alerts of new results
and orders and is designed to reduce errors and omissions and
improve the timeliness of clinical decision making. A third enhancement
is a personal digital assistant (PDA) called Access Clinical Assistant
Vital Signs, which enables point-of-care data capture, increasing
efficiency. Called Invision, the system is the product of Siemens
Medical Solutions (Erlangen, Germany).
For clinicians on the move, using wireless devices
saves us time, provides for greater accuracy in documenting patient
information, and enables us to review and collaborate with other
members of the patient care team while we move about the hospital,
said Nancy Towers, RN, MSN, director of Nursing Clinical Systems,
Newport Hospital, Lifespan (RI, USA), the integrated health system
of Rhode Island.
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