Patient Management Workflow

A key feature of all connectivity solutions is a database that includes all of the patients associated with the system’s medical devices. This is called a “patient census” or ADT (admission, transfer and discharge), much like the way a hospital’s ADT system manages patient demographics for the hospital information system or EMR. Also referred to as patient management data, these data often include: patient name and ID number (permanent medical record number, episode of care number, or both), current assigned location of the patient, and the device associated with the patient. Depending on the application, these data can also include more operational or clinical things like assigned caregivers, admitting and/or attending physician, admitting diagnosis and service unit. It is also possible that this operational or clinical data may be stored in a different file, separate from patient management. Some workflows or systems queue up patient information prior to arrival or application of the medical device, while others capture or generate patient demographics when the medical device is first applied to the patient. In any event, the connectivity solution must capture patient demographics that are sufficient to ensure correct patient identification and possibly additional information that relates to the use of the medical device (e.g., body surface area – or the data to calculate it, weight, etc.) Common methods to capture patient demographics are an A...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Tags: connectivity Product Development Source Type: blogs