New FL hospital opens as paperless facility
Patient Safety Monitor Alert
June 15, 2005
Baptist Medical Center South in Jacksonville has opened its doors, and patients are walking into a completely paperless setting. All medical records, forms, reports and orders are transmitted electronically through computers, PDAs and other devices, according to Computerworld.The new center succeeded where others have failed by working closely with medical staff and programmers. Tech-savvy clinical workers were used as intermediaries between programmers and medical staff, explaining hospital worker needs to the tech side and describing what the programmers could do to the medical side.
Every process was considered and streamlined for the electronic system. New, customizable "care sets" are available for physicians to treat specific conditions. Instead of ordering blood tests, X-rays, and any number of other procedures associated with a condition, physicians can instead order up a care set for the condition, and all the tests are automatically ordered.
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