MEDITECH
Patient Care
Inquiry
product brief
MEDITECH's Patient Care Inquiry (PCI) provides care providers in a multiple or single facility organization access to an integrated display of patient information collected throughout MEDITECH's Health Care Information System (HCIS). PCI offers health care professionals a single source for viewing patient data. PCI is the building block of a patient's Electronic Medical Record.
Highlights:
•
Up-to-the-minute clinical and patient care information
• Patient-oriented displays
• Data displayed in summary to detail
format
• Color tables and graphics
• A split screen capability for comparing
information
• Multiple print features
• User-adjustable time periods for viewing
results
• Multilevel, organization-defined
security
• Automatic compilation of patient lists
for fast, accurate, and versatile patient identification
• A link between non-MEDITECH-based
databases to user-definable data sources.
Standard Features
Complete
Patient Information
PCI gathers and assembles, in a user-definable format, the
following types of patient information:
• Orders
• Administrative data
• Current medications
• Medication history
• Clinical highlights
• Patient care documentation
• Record of patients' hospital visits (with abstracts)
• Admissions information, such as demographics and insurance
• Laboratory data
• Microbiology data
• Anatomical pathology data
• Blood bank data
• Radiology exam data
• Recent clinical results
• Ancillary department orders and results
• Departmental clinical reports
• Patient care details
• Physicians’ office visits
• Image viewing capabilities
• Provider Order Management capabilities
• Ordering procedures
• Common provider orders
• Renewing orders
• Canceling and amending orders
• Electronic signature of verbal and telephone orders
• On-line managed care referrals
• Access to resource schedules
• PaperChase access
• Editing of dictated reports prior to electronic signature
• Electronic results.
Patient-Oriented
Profiles
MEDITECH's PCI is patient centered. PCI enables users to identify
a patient once and access any type of information on hand. A
user's list of patients is automatically created and immediately
available when the user logs on to the system. PCI enables users
to:
• View and compare all of a patient's results
• Compile recent activity and physician lists
• Monitor critical information on a personalized Clinical
Highlights menu
• Adjust the time frame over which results are displayed
• Conveniently access patients' data with minimal keystrokes
• View patient information from other applications on one
screen
• Print information
• Fax patient records to physicians.
Patient profiles are also complete with result flags:
• Alerting physicians of recent clinical results entered on
a patient, allowing users to view these results from a single
screen
• Highlighting abnormal results in red and indicating why
the result is considered abnormal.
An
Easy-to-Use Tool
PCI is presented in a logical, step-by-step manner.
• Summary to detail succession of patient information
• Organization-defined listing of available patient data
• A results summary for the selected information type
• Result details
• A Report/Specimen window
• Split screens to compare different types of data
• Flexible time frame adjustment, from one day to four years
• Archival storage via Optical Disk
• Electronic signature capability
Graphical
Capabilities
PCI displays all numeric result data in easy-to-comprehend
graphics, including:
• Line, bar, and value graphs
• Split screens which allow users to compare different data
types
• Patient data charted against normal values for patient age
and sex
• Multicolor screens and windows.
Trend
Analysis
Patient information such as glucose tests, vital signs, and
temperature readings are also presented in tables and graphs for
numeric trend analysis.
Printing
Features
PCI allows users to print patient summaries, tables, inquiry
screens, and graphs. Information can be printed to any device in
the care network, whether at the hospital, a reference lab, or
remotely in physicians' offices.
Ensuring
Patient Confidentiality
PCI's security features allow an organization to:
• Assign a specific password to every user
• Restrict users' access to the patient results for selected
physicians or physician groups
• Restrict users' access to results for patients at specific
locations
• Designate confidential patients whose data is accessible
only by authorized users
• Build custom menus that display only the information users
are authorized to access, and assign these menus to selected
users
• Provide a history of all users who have accessed the
patient’s record, which area of the record, for how long,
and from which location or workstation via audit trails
• Print utilization reports which describe users' access of
patient data.
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