The implementation and use of Emergisoft’s patient tracking and clinical documentation technologies has created an electronic medical record environment in Putnam Hospital’s emergency department, which sees over 25,000 patients a year.
Emergisoft says that, while it has generated more than six million emergency department electronic medical records, less than 10% of US emergency rooms have one.
By implementing EmergisoftED, Putnam Hospital will be able to conduct automated syndromic surveillance reporting to local and state health departments, including the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The vendor says its system eliminates the issues of medical errors surrounding
illegible handwriting, and reduces patient wait times by allowing hospital administrators to find and immediately address bottlenecks that may exist in the workflow process. This ability is managed by an electronic time stamp at each and every step of the patient encounter.
In addition, patients will be tracked electronically by a large plasma screen monitor that enables clinicians to immediately view total patient wait time and also be alerted when lab orders, x-rays and beds are available.
