The module shall include information on patient registration, visit details, treatment details, referral source, patient follow up;
(admitted, discharged or referred to outpatient clinics ).
The Accident and Emergency (A&E) module should allow the Hospital to record data accurately and quickly for patient treatment. The A&E module should allow users to record casualty details , and `discharge status’. It should also register patients and integrate to the Inpatients module for admitting patients. The module should produce casualty statistics i.e. types of injury, clinic usage, discharge status.
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| Accident and Emergency |
| | Description | Accident and Emergency
The module shall include information on patient registration, visit details, treatment details, referral source, patient follow up;
(admitted, discharged or referred to outpatient clinics ).
The Accident and Emergency (A&E) module should allow the Hospital to record data accurately and quickly for patient treatment. The A&E module should allow users to record casualty details , and `discharge status’. It should also register patients and integrate to the Inpatients module for admitting patients. The module should produce casualty statistics i.e. types of injury, clinic usage, discharge status. |
| 1 | | Support concurrent electronic charting of nursing assessments, physician charting and other clinical documentation of patient visit | | 2 | | Support online charting of assessments , of admission notes | | 3 | | Support online charting of allergies | | 4 | | Support physician entry of discharge disposition | | 5 | | Support physician entry of prescriptions | | 6 | | Automatically record and track date , time and ID of clinicians with each electronic chart note or entry | | 7 | | Support bi-directional interface to hospital information system admissions ( ADT ) module to communicate registration transactions and demographic data between systems. | | 8 | | Support bi-directional interface to hospital medical system to retrieve medical record number for Emergency Department patient registrations | | 9 | | Support charge interface to hospital billing system to transmit Emergency Department patient charges | | 10 | | Support bi-directional interface to hospital order and result communication ( reporting ) system to send orders to and receive results from ancillary department information systems . | | 11 | | Support interface to hospital pharmacy system to transmit prescriptions generated in Emergency Department for discharged patients |
| 12 | | Support order entry for lab tests | | 13 | | Provide ability to order ‘panels’ of lab tests | | 14 | | Support order entry for diagnostic imaging services including detail for exam , view , urgency , ordering physician and relevant patient history | | 15 | | Support order entry for EKG | | 16 | | Provide ability to limit ordering privileges by user and / or user class | | 17 | | Support entry of reason for test | | 18 | | Support entry of free text ( ex: comments ) with an order | | 19 | | Automatically display allergy information when ordering medications | | 20 | | Support ordering procedures for hospital teaching environments (ex: attending order verification for medical students ) | | 21 | | Automatically flag or alert clinician of abnormal or critical lab values on result screens | | 22 | | Support entry of multiple orders without the need to re-select patient from list, re-enter patient ID , etc.. | | 23 | | Provide ability to assign same nurse to multiple patients in a single step | | 24 | | Provide ability to assign multiple physicians to a patient | | 25 | | Ability to hold a room for a patient before arrival ( ex: ambulance, doctor’s office ) | | 26 | | Support definition of ‘hall beds’ in the system and ability to assign a patient to a hall bed | | 27 | | Allow more than one user to access the same patient record at the same time ( ex: no record lock out ) |
| >>> Status Tracking ( by Laps of Time ) | | | | 28 | | Allow to define triage codes with the corresponding descriptions | | 29 | | Capture code and time of triage | | 30 | | Capture time patient is in treatment room | | 31 | | Track all patients in all phases of care | | 32 | | Capture time patient is seen by RN | | 33 | | Capture time medications are administered to patient | | 34 | | Capture time admitting department is called for bed assignment | | 35 | | Provide ability to configure user-defined , emergency department specific patient care events to capture time for tracking purposes | | 36 | | Automatically alert clinicians (ex: visually on tracking screen ) when patient test results are back and available for review | | 37 | | Provide ability to view status of all patients with x-ray orders | | 38 | | Provide ability to view status of all patient with bed request | | 39 | | Provide support and functions for handling a disaster with massive casualties | | 40 | | Maintain database of all patient demographic information and prior ED visit records to access and carry forward into new registrations | | 41 | | Support online retrieval and display of historical emergency department charts for prior patient visits to ED | | 42 | | Automatically generate a unique ED encounter number for each ED patient registration | | 43 | | Support entry of patient’s chief complaint from a pick list ( ex: drop-down box) or using free text entry | | 44 | | Provide ability to enter accident information | | 45 | | Provide ability to enter an expected length of stay | | 46 | | Include specific latex allergy field in registration screen and store in patient’s permanent history for retrieval in future registrations | | 47 | | Provide ‘quick registration’ function to register ‘patient x ’ patient when identity is unknown | | 48 | | Provide ability to merge ‘patient x ‘ charts with final patient chart later | | 49 | | Support pre-registration of a patient if patient is en-route ( ex: ambulance , doctor’s office ) | | 50 | | Provide ability to bypass triage function in registration process, if necessary | | 51 | | Support the production of bar-coded patient labels | | 53 | | Account for police notification and Medico Legal Cases |
| 54 | | Allow to print the patient attendance register | | 55 | | Produce end of shift reports | | 56 | | Produce statistical reports on casualties , attendance , admission from A&E |
| 59 | | Admissions, Transfers & Discharges | | 60 | | Order Results Management | | 61 | | Financials and Billing |
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