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Implementing an emergency department information system--how complicated can we make this?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | DeWoody, S. Loadman, G. P. Walsh, Bob |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | The development and installation of an information system, whether it is departmentor hospital-based, is sometimes a daunting challenge. When dealing with two separate campuses of a recently merged hospital with two different hospital information systems (HIS), two busy emergency departments (EDs), and two separate ED physician groups, implementing an emergency department information system (EDIS) is definitely a challenge. The two campuses of our Midwest hospital, located only seven miles apart, are very different in terms of their histories and cultures. The smaller of the two campuses, located downtown, has been a verified Level I trauma center for many years and sees approximately forty-eight thousand ED patients per year. The ED physicians on this smaller campus were employed by a large national corporation. The larger campus, located in the suburbs, was only recently verified as a Level II trauma center and sees approximately sixty-seven thousand ED patients per year. The ED physicians on the larger campus were employed by a small, locally owned firm. The smaller campus had a very limited EDIS and the larger campus had an ED module of an HIS that was unsatisfactory in meeting the department’s needs. This article describes the hospital’s experience in implementing an EDIS using the framework of the system development life cycle as described by M. A. Jaworski.1 The entire process took less than two years. |
| Starting Page | 19 |
| Ending Page | 29 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 10787597 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 13 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://s3.amazonaws.com/rdcms-himss/files/production/public/HIMSSorg/Content/files/jhim/13-3/him13303.pdf |
| Journal | Journal of healthcare information management : JHIM |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
