A video on the same Care Connect EMR system in the blog “Hospital makes connection with patient records” post, May 19, 2012 – an ideal solution to our ailing paper-based manual systems
“The system is so advance and detail oriented, even housekeeping will know which rooms need to be cleaned after a patient is discharged” – Dr. Arun Nagpaul, medical director, on Care Connect, an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system using EPIC software at Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, N.Y.
Care Connect, an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system using EPIC software at Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, will allow doctors and technicians to access patient records, with permission, at any location. Doctors will be able to look at lab results, x-rays and a patient’s medical history at the click of a button, thusconnecting patients and their records virtually anywhere a patient might be seeking medical care. The EMR system was jointly launched with ts affiliate, Rochester General Hospital.
Care Connect is a 2-year project, costing $65 million.The project was to convert the entire Rochester General Health System from a combination of independent paper-based and computer-based patient record systems to a single, fully-integrated electronic system that will significantly enhance quality and patient safety as well as the efficiency and effectiveness of care provided to all patients.
The launch of the new system at Newark-Wayne went smoothly largely due to years of planning, extensive training and testing. Doctors affiliated with Rochester General Health System have been equipped with the software to allow them to access the records as well. In addition, Rochester General Health System is partnering with Wayne County physicians to assure they have, with the patient’s explicit permission, access to the patient’s most up-to-date records to further improve clinical outcomes and quality of care. And with other hospitals in Rochester transitioning to electronic medical record technology, sharing of patient information between Systems will be greatly simplified. Physicians from throughout the Rochester Region can now access records at Newark-Wayne when needed for specific patient treatment.
The system is so advance and detail oriented, Dr. Arun Nagpaul, medical director at Newark-Wayne said, even housekeeping will know which rooms need to be cleaned after a patient is discharged.
“It’s seamless,” he said.
Exceptional features of Care Connect:
Abridged, from an original article by Tammy Whitacre, staff writer Messenger Post, Posted, May 19, 2012
In most Malaysian homes, I am sure the scernario is that the vast majority of us store and/or hoard important documents away in the weiredest places, or documents simply scattered all over the home as there is no vision to orgainise and store in any pre-defined place in the house.
So it is no surprise that we face difficulty tracing and retrieving documents when the need arises, just as we face similar situations when medical records and reports go missing or not found in our medical records offices.
I am happy I found this rather good simple innovation in this news item, a homemade creation entitled “Our Just In Case Book.” This book is a simple binder of information that the next of kin or others need, and know where it is located, if either spouse is incapacitated.
Examples of crisis situations can be :
The notebook could contain the basics :
Abridged, from an original article by KATHY MARTIN, newsroom@wcfcourier.com wcfcourier.com | Posted: Friday, May 18, 2012
American military officers say, the amassed information on combatants over the last 10 years amounts to the most detailed data ever assembled on battlefield trauma and its care. But the records are scattered, as the Defense Department’s trauma registry has information on roughly 66,000 patients largely – of those who survived, and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner’s Office maintains separate sets of records.
So far these disparate storehouses of information have not been joined in a permanent place, much less made widely available for cross-disciplinary study.
Col. Jeffrey A. Bailey, a surgeon who directs the Joint Trauma System at the Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, confirmed there as yet is no standardized medical database that enables researchers to look back comprehensively on the experiences of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Against this background, Col. Michael D. Wirt, a doctor (a neuroradiologist ) volunteered for duty in an infantry brigade, set out in 2010 to make his own record of one brief but bloody chapter of the Afghan war.
Col. Wirt created a database which could be read like a catalog of horrors. His database is part of a vast store of information recorded about the experiences of American combatants. In it, more than 500 American soldiers are subjected to characteristic forms of violence of the Afghan war. Colonel Wirt was a brigade surgeon from the 101st Airborne Division during the American-led effort in 2010 and 2011 to dislodge the Taliban from their rural stronghold along the Arghandab River. His database was one part official record and one part personal research project.
He was intent on documenting how soldiers were wounded or sickened, how they were treated and how they fared. For those seeking to understand war and how best to survive it, the doctor on his own initiative created an evidence-based tool and a possible model.
“If you don’t take data and analyze it and try to find ways to improve, then what are you doing?” Colonel Wirt asked in an interview at Fort Campbell, where he is a deputy commander at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital. “In my humble opinion, a consolidated database with standardized input consisting of mechanism of injury and resulting wounds, classified by battle and nonbattle injuries, would be something you could actually use.”
Abridged, from an original article by C.J. Chivers, The New York Times, 17/05/2012
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