Background

The emergency clinic at Södra Älvsborgs Sjukhus (Swedish government regional hospital) in Borås gets about 56,000 patients each year. All of these patients goes through a triage process which means that they get prioritised systematically based on their level of needed care. During a patients visit at the clinic they may be re-prioritised based on vital parameters like saturation, blood pressure, GCS-value and other factors. This emergency process was previously administrated relatively analog.

As a step forward in the evolution of the hospital buisness, a development project was started by a team formed for this specific purpose consisting of the emergency central and the IT-strategic department at Södra Älvsborgs Sjukhus (Swedish government regional hospital) and the systems development team Weltgeist. The project has been domain driven with a high degree of participation from both end-users and health care visionaries, as well as other domain experts. The goal for this project has been to develop an emergency system that increases the patients' safety, cuts down on unnecessary document handling and gives better access to information.

Features

• Digital "emergency journal" accessible and editable by many users simultaneously
• Triage function with an integrated decision support based on a fully configurable logic for vital signs, symptom related flows and non-specific flows
• Real-time overview of all registered patients on the specific department with priority, team association, action reminders and positioning using RFID-technology
• Prescription function for tests and medication
• Statistics and diagrams

Feel free to read more about decision support and EDM on http://smartenoughsystems.com/.

Extracted from "Smart Enough Systems"

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