MEDITECH
Enterprise Medical Record
functionality brief

MEDITECH’s Enterprise Medical Record (EMR) represents a single source for viewing all relevant patient information — from all aspects of clinical care — throughout the health care delivery system. Complete visit histories are electronically stored for each patient over the course of an entire lifetime.

The EMR contains information from visits conducted anywhere along the continuum of care — ambulatory centers, hospitals, physicians’ offices, home health agencies, long term care facilities, and satellite laboratories. The information contained in the EMR is updated on a real-time basis. Whenever an order is placed or a test is conducted, the patient’s record of care is automatically updated.

MEDITECH’s EMR accepts data from all sources throughout the enterprise, including both the MEDITECH Health Care Information System and other vendors’ systems. This data is collected in the EMR and displayed in one consistent, easily readable format.

Highlights:
The EMR is designed with care providers and their many tasks in mind. The EMR’s efficient and intuitive functions require little or no training. Point-and-select procedures make operation as simple as possible. The EMR provides highly accessible patient data and features:
   • Current care/clinical information
   • Historical patient data
   • Outpatient information
   • Current administrative data
   • Graphical display of data
   • Electronic order placement and signature
   • Confidential records of care.

Standard Features

Current Care/Clinical Information
The EMR gives care providers instant and immediate access to a comprehensive, computerized record of current patient care and clinical procedures. This record includes:
• Test results
• Medications
• Vital signs
• Patient care (nursing) documentation
• Orders
• Reports.

This information is viewed in convenient panel displays. Panels are designed to group data into clinically meaningful display groupings where clinicians can compare all facets of patient data.

Historical Patient Data
Complete visit histories from all components of the health care delivery system are available within the EMR. Users can check off the visit(s) for which they want to see patient information, or they can request a compilation of the data from all visits. This data includes:
• Medical history and test results
• Abstracts from previous visits
• Demographics.

Outpatient Information
The EMR supports the entire continuum of patient care through integration with the health care organization’s outpatient providers. Care providers connect through local area and wide area networks based on open systems capabilities and advanced telecommunications. Information is retrieved from many care center locations including:
• Physicians’ offices
• Outpatient surgical centers
• Nursing homes
• Home health care agencies
• Satellite labs
• Rehabilitation centers
• Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs).

The EMR offers maximum accessibility, in a single inquiry, to any number of users at the same time. Users have direct, immediate access from any workstation in the health care organization. Authorized clinicians can access the EMR from their homes or offices.

Current Administrative Data
The EMR includes all patient-related administrative data in a single record. This data includes:
• Complete demographics
• Insurance information
• Diagnostic and procedure code assignments.

Graphical Display of Data
Within the EMR, results may be charted in easy-to-interpret graphs, including point, bar, and line graphs. This allows users to pinpoint abnormalities and trends, so decisions are made more quickly, enhancing a patient’s quality of care. To help with data assessment, the system features:
• Automatic plotting of results
• Color graphs
• Abnormal result flags.

Confidential Records of Care
Enterprise medical records remain secure throughout the care network, as the entire system is password-driven. Care networks can define restrictions of all users based on specific categories of information. Restrictions also can be implemented by different levels of viewing, according to the level of access the health care enterprise gives each of its users.

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