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Here are responses to my ER Criteria posting. Thanks to everyone that answered! Julie Julie, Here is my site visit evaluation tool. The ED started this project before I joined the organization. We narrowed down the vendors to 3; Amelior, A4 and Picis. Our clinicians did not put EDM in the top 3. Good luck, feel free to contact me if you need more info. Cheryl Toomey MHA, RN BC Clinical Informatics Specialist Milford Regional Medical Center Milford, MA 01757 vm (508) 422-2449 [EMAIL PROTECTED] We had two major criteria.....customer definablitly and integration....only logical choice for us was EDM. Lovelace, Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] We looked at several vendors but it really came down to integration and ability to customize so it was EDM. Alos, a big factor for us was being able to charge when you did procedure or gave drug and since we do not have automated dispensing the only easy way to get pharmacy charges across was EDM. We wnet for dictionary training this week and will be going live with EDM and the physician documentaiton piece in August. Susan Susan Netherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Julie, Greetings from Great Falls! I saw your message re:EDM and need to respond. We use EDM and have since April 2004 and we are happy with it. We did not "shop around" for vendors because we felt the integration with the rest of the hospital was very important. If you would like to come "up north" for a site visit, I would be happy to show you what we have done! Julie Bibler, RN Nurse Analyst Benefis Healthcare Great Falls, MT (406) 455-5073 We went with Medhost - staff seem to really like it and basically everything is automated. Orders for lab and rad go through the interfaces along with billing and charges. Thanks, Jen The critical path for us has been the integration. Our ED has been struggling for the last 5-7 years with lack of automation. We have investigated paper templates, automated templates and a host of Automated systems. Meditech has finally fleshed out their product enough that the search team felt comfortable in selecting it!! The Cadillac of windows based systems is actually up in a Meditech hospital, but it requires 15-17 Interfaces (some of them have to be bi-directional) and that scares the heck out of me. As we all go down this eMAR/BMV and CPOE/PCM/POM path, medications are one of the biggest bangs for bucks, along with historical medications and allergies. The amount of time (read $$$) of analyst time to get all this flowing back and forth is HUGE. I can not imagine maintaining 2 sets of Formularies and 2 sets of medication rules. Our other goal is to have the patient's history default into the ED so that staff does not ask redundant questions and has historical information available to assist in care and decision making. Our goal is to have the information and vitals collected in the ED flow into the Assessment screens used by the staff, again, cutting down on redundant questions for the patients and duplicate charting for all. We want clinicians to be able to see the information flow from one area to the next. We are also really hot on allergies.. having them come over in ASCII text won't cut it. Janice B Lisee, RNC BSN Senior Systems Analyst Frederick Memorial Hospital Frederick, Maryland 21701 240-566-3437 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Quinn, Judy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:54 AM To: Julie Kindred Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Criteria for picking ER documentation sytems I would also be interested. Would you please post the responses to the L? Thanks. Judith Quinn, MSN, RN Senior Clinical Informatics Specialist Cape Cod Healthcare -----Original Message----- From: Julie Kindred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Criteria for picking ER documentation sytems Would anyone be willing to share criteria they used to evaluate ER on-line documentation software. We are magic 5.4 and starting to look at different vendors. EDM is one. (If you have any suggestions for vendors, I'd love to hear.) Thanks Julie Kindred Clinical Coordinator Bozeman Deaconess Hospital 915 Highland Blvd Bozeman,Mt 59715 406-585-5047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This communication is confidential to Bozeman Deaconess Hospital and is intended solely for the use of the individual or organization to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the originator immediately. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not use, copy, alter, or disclose the contents of this message. All information or opinions expressed in this message and/or any attachments are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Bozeman Deaconess Hospital. Bozeman Deaconess Hospital accepts no responsibility for loss or damage arising from its use.
ED site visit checklist.xls
Description: ED site visit checklist.xls
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