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Supporting the EMR Transition
Access’s Patient Flow System (PFS) is supporting Coffee Regional Medical Center’s (CRMC) electronic medical records (EMR) project and patient safety initiative in the admissions department. When a staff member registers a patient in the McKesson Paragon system, the information goes into Access’s e-Forms Repository (EFR) and is merged into the face sheet, consent forms and the other parts of the registration packet. These are then printed with barcodes that help ensure positive patient identification. CRMC also used EFR to electronically register patients when it converted HIS systems.
In addition to providing efficiency in the patient registration department, PFS and EFR are simplifying processes on clinical floors at CRMC. Nurses can immediately access the forms they need directly from a printer at any of the facility’s nursing stations, rather than wasting time searching for paper forms in file cabinets.
Implementing Access’s EFR has enabled CRMC to consolidate its forms library, and to produce new forms more quickly and efficiently than if relying on a third party forms vendor. A further advantage is that there is no longer the potential problem of illegible forms.