Lansing-based Sparrow Health System released its wireless
Emergency Department Information System (EDIS), the healthcare industry’s most
advanced and comprehensive wireless communications system. The EDIS allows
doctors, nurses and administrators manage a patient’s care through one
interconnected system.
According to excerpts from the article:
The system, built on The T SystemEV® EDIS platform,
debuted January 20, 2008 at the hospital’s new 90,000 square foot Adult and
Children’s ED, part of the system’s just completed, 10-story Sparrow Tower.
According to Ronald Swenson, M.D., Vice President and
Chief Information Officer for the Sparrow Health System, T SystemEV was the
evaluation team’s unanimous choice among the various EDISs reviewed. “Other
applications can function in a mobile environment, but T SystemEV is designed
from the ground up for fast and efficient use of mobile devices at the point of
care,” Dr. Swenson noted. “Its functionality, interoperability and security are
ideal for our new mobile device strategy.”
T SystemEV brings to the bedside integrated charting,
patient and process tracking, clinical decision support, prescription writing,
statistical reporting, ICD9 coding, order results, discharge instructions and
much more. Its Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) feature allows Sparrow
Hospital’s physicians and ED coordinators, known as HUCs (Health Unit
Coordinators), to seamlessly move between documentation, order entry, lab
results, medications and care protocols using a single software interface.
“T SystemEV lets our doctors and nurses complete their
preliminary exams rapidly, using best practice protocols for rapid data entry
on the tablet PCs,” Dr. Swenson states. “Minutes make a difference in an
emergency department, especially with critical patients. Legibility of
handwritten notes has historically been a problem for many organizations. T
SystemEV solved this problem by automatically generating a typewritten narrative
report as soon as the ED physician completes his or her work with the record.”
Dr. Swenson said the hospital anticipated that
implementation of the new mobile EDIS system would be a challenge. Instead, the
staff was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly the process went.
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