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.

Quick Order Entry, Prescriptions, and Medications
The Emergency Department Management application is closely integrated with MEDITECH’s Physician Order Management and Prescription Management applications so Emergency Department staff can place orders quickly.

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 provide many of the same features found in our Departmental application. Users are able to enter fields and load canned text entries.

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.

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MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com