Question

You are a nurse informaticist at an inner-city hospital that functions as a Level 1 trauma center as well as providing care for a wide spectrum of the community population, including a significant indigent population. Recently, the hospital implemented a new electronic medical records system, and you have been actively involved in making it work. You have just been informed of two situations that need some intervention.Situation 1: The medical-surgical nurses are complaining that they have to re-enter the vital signs information for patients transferred from the Emergency Department, because the ED system doesn’t interface with the new EMR system.

Why is this scenario a problem?

Answer 1

EMR system has information about an individual that consulted by patient clinicians, staffs in health care organization. long stay in ED makes the patient get poor satisfaction and prognosis. EMR system improves the quality of health care and increases efficiency. the long-time needed in the ED for entering clinical data into EMR can be done only by experienced physicians and staff. EMR differs when the patient makes a long stay and medical care at triage. The low cost of the EMR system implement using the wireless wifi system makes benefits in the advanced working environment. Technology with electronic triage tags can report patient conditions and medical information. A wireless system for new EMR implementation with barcode scanners can be used in patient information. wireless internet information system for medical response used for monitoring patient vital signs rapidly. using low-cost new system technology for the standalone environment can simplify the workflow issues in the ED.