Elliot Health System

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Elliot Health System

• Information Technology
• Transforming Health Care

Denise Purington, RN Vice President Information
Technology Chief Information Officer
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Elliot Health System

• Elliot Hospital Licensed 296 Beds
• Level II Trauma Center
• Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• Regional Cancer Center
• Visiting Nurse Association
• Elliot One Day Surgery Center
• Elliot Physician Network/ Elliot Professional
  Services
• 60 Providers
• Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics,
  Geriatrics, Behavioral Health, Breast Health,
  Hospitalist, and Intensivist.

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Elliots Vision

• Fully Integrated Electronic Medical Record
• Single Patient Record
• Access across the Entire Health System
• Access across the Community
• By Providers (Physicians, Nursing Homes, Schools)
• By Patients and their families
• From Hospital, Home or Office

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Technology Advancements

• 2001-2004 Implemented EMR System from Epic
  Systems throughout Physician Network
• 2004 Implemented Medication Administration
  Solution at the Hospital
• 2004 Remote Access for All Active Medical Staff

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Technology Advancements

• 2004 2005 Conversion of Elliot Hospital
  Information System to Epic
• Registration, HIM, Patient Accounting
• Clinical Data Repository, ED, Radiology, Clerk
  Order Entry
• 2006 Implementation of Philips/Stentor PACS
  Solution and Dictaphone Speech Recognition
• Fully Integrated into EMR

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The Technology Wave Still to Come

• 2006-2007 Clinical Documentation
• Clinical Assessments and D/C Instructions
• Flowsheet Documentation and Care Plans
• 2006 Launching of Patient Portal
• 2007 Go-Live of Epics Surgery Module
• 2007 Conversion of Pharmacy System to Epic
• 2008 CPOE

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Reaching Out to The Community

• Extending Epic to Community-Based Practices
• Specialty Groups
• Primary Care
• Emergency Medicine
• Community Based Clinics Child Health Services
• Schedule Surgical Procedures Remotely Online
• Schedule CT MRI Services Remotely Online
• How do we link with other Manchester and Non-
  Manchester providers

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How Have We Improved Quality and Transformed Care?

• Physician to Physician Communications
• Improved Turnaround Times
• Lab Results to ED
• Radiology Reports to Physicians
• Reduction in Cost
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• Overall Productivity
• Access to Data