Clinical
Units
The design of the Emerging
Health Solutions CIS is founded on the understanding
that Healthcare services are most commonly provided
by teams of clinicians organised in clinical units.
Co-ordination, both within and between clinical units,
is a key factor affecting the quality and effectiveness
of their service delivery, irrespective of
the clinical units’ size, location and the range of services
they deliver
Key Concerns for Clinical Units
Practicing clinicians working with colleagues in a clinical
unit are focused on three key areas
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Patient
care and service delivery processes. |
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Clinical
records. |
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Management
and administration of the clinical
unit. |
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It is these very central
concerns that the Emerging Health Solutions
CIS directly addresses
Patient Care
and Service Delivery
The support of patient
care and service delivery begins in Emerging
Health Solutions by providing clinicians
with access to comprehensive patient
information, which is complied and presented
electronically and at the point of care,
in a clinically useful way. The clinicians’ patient
care activity is supported by automating
many of the tasks clinicians undertake
and providing a significant level of
decision support. In addition to making
it easier and much quicker for clinicians
to complete tasks, the automation and
decision support ensures clinicians are
appropriately prompted to complete tasks
and helps to ensure that interventions
are appropriate and that unnecessary
duplication is avoided.
The Emerging Health
Solutions CIS also provides a means
of managing staff and clinical communications
using a built-in messaging capability.
Important clinical messages are captured
in Emerging Health Solutions, delivered
to all the relevant parties and remain
a permanent part of the patients’ medical
records.
Using Emerging Health Solutions clinicians can:
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Map
the actual progress of patients
against an expected progress pattern
based on best clinical practice,
during any episode of care. |
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Integrate
any clinical protocol into the
care process. |
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Systematically
identify, analyse and address variances
from best practice. |
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Improve
standards of care by continually
evaluating the quality of care
delivered and making evidence based
changes to care delivery. |
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Conduct
research using the built-in facility
to collect additional information
as needed in conjunction with existing
electronic medical record information. |
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Coordinate
the patient care activity of the
whole multi-disciplinary team. |
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Have
complete control over the way clinical
practice is reflected in Emerging
Health Solutions. |
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All this can be done
at the point of care.
Electronic Medical
Record
Using the clinical
toolset provided by Emerging Health Solutions
to complete clinical tasks results in
the automatic documentation of the tasks.
The clinical recording captured in Emerging
Health Solutions is structured, systematic
and consistent. When clinicians use Emerging
Health Solutions as their toolset they
actually create the patient’s electronic
medical record as a by-product of providing
care.
Management Support
The detailed recording
of clinical activity in Emerging Health
Solutions makes it possible to automatically
generate:
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Casemix
information. |
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Clinical
activity reports. |
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Reports
on outcomes of care. |
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This information
is useful for:
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Management
of the clinical unit |
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Meeting
regulatory reporting requirements |
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Maintaining
and improving the quality of
service delivery |
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The electronic automation
of clinical tasks reduces the need for
clinicians to complete administrative
tasks and provides information necessary
for the management and administration
of the clinical unit. |
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