MEDITECH
Emergency Department
Management
product
brief
MEDITECH’s Emergency Department Management application assists Emergency Department clinicians and staff in the critical task of managing patients quickly and efficiently.
Highlights:
•
Integrated desktop and patient tracking system
• Documentation
• Reception
• Discharge Management
• Registration
• Comprehensive medical record
• Patient documentation and triage
• Security
• Quick order entry, prescriptions, and medications
• Follow-up and call management.
Standard Features
Integrated
Desktop and Patient Tracking System
The Patient Tracker
Integrated Desktop allows the Emergency Department staff to
document the daily functions performed in their care/treatment of
patients and manage patient flow from a central point of entry.
Reception
During periods of peak
activity, patients often enter the Emergency Department
simultaneously. When this occurs, a triage nurse needs to quickly
create a worklist so patients are triaged in proper order.
Our Reception routine allows triage nurses to record the small number of data fields necessary to get Emergency patients into the system quickly. Patients are then able to have orders placed, assessments performed, and documentation filed (even before patients are fully registered).
Registration
The Registration routine
collects demographic and biographic information, as well as
insurance, next of kin, and incident information.
Patient
Documentation and Triage
Documentation is an important part of health care. Our assessment
functionality provides access to neatly organized nursing
assessments through routines specifically designed for the
Emergency Department's workflow. The assessment data flows
seamlessly into the MEDITECH Nursing application, providing a
superior level of medical record continuity.
Efficient
Management of Ambulatory Orders
MEDITECH's Ambulatory Order
Management routine provides a health care network with the
ability to track a patient's complete ambulatory profile. This
can include prescriptions that were generated from the MEDITECH
system in outpatient settings, from the provider's office,
discharge from inpatient visits, or upon departure from the
Emergency Department. Diagnostic procedures can also be generated
to and communicated to appropriate ancillary services to ensure
the proper follow-up care is provided to patients. Clinical staff
can even identify prescriptions that are from outside of their
network, so that they can be accounted for and incorporated into
the patient's accurate ambulatory profile.
Ambulatory Order Management utilizes a wide range of patient safety measures to ensure the safe and effective distribution of prescriptions. The high level dynamic integration between Ambulatory Order Management and Provider Order Management allows Emergency Department staff to quickly and safely convert ambulatory prescriptions into current medication orders and vice versa. This inherent integration allows Emergency Department clinicians to effectively reconcile a patient's "at home" medications and gives them a greater understanding of a patient's chronic and acute medical conditions.
Documentation
The application's
Documentation routine allows clinicians to enter free text notes
and reports into the system. The routine provides quick and easy
means to complete documentation, while at the same time,
providing many of the same features found in our Departmental
application. Users are able to enter fields and load canned text
entries.
Additionally, users can customize the Emergency Department Tracker which allows for quick and efficient clinical documentation. With the Emergency Department Tracker documentation routine, users can arrange documentation screens and fields to appear on a single template or on specific choices of templates. Users navigate through the documentation process by clicking on questions and responding either with hard coded data or by using the MEDITECH text editor.
Users also have the ability to retrieve specified results, such as Laboratory results, medication orders, and vital signs, to incorporate into the documentation.The documentation entered in the Emergency Department appears in PCI or EMR for the attending physician to review.
Discharge
We provide an Advanced
Discharge/Departure routine to help staff complete required paper
work when patients are ready to leave. This feature includes the
ability to automatically provide patient care instructions. When
a clinician files the discharge screen, the system automatically
departs the patient while discharge instructions, follow-up
reminders, referrals, forms, and prescriptions are printing.
Comprehensive
Medical Record
The Emergency Department
Management application feeds data to our Patient Care Inquiry
application to produce an integrated medical record throughout
the Health Care Information System. A patient’s Emergency
Department visit data is available online from any client or
terminal within the HCIS, for any user with access to view this
information.
Security
Control of information and
confidentiality of patient data are common concerns among health
care organizations. The Emergency Department Management
application provides user- and group-controlled access to
information. A double key password system and custom menus
supplied by the MIS application helps prevent unauthorized access.
Dictionary controlled settings and audit trails provided by the
application further help your IS staff control authorized access
and potentially reduce security breaches.
Follow-Up
and Call Management
We anticipate that clinical
staff might elect to electronically mark selected patients for
follow-up (F/U) calls, revisits, or other types of intervention
by placing reminders. A reminder queue within the application
allows users to document the follow-up management. The system can
be used to log incoming calls and record them on patients’
records.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative.
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com