CPSI: System Overview

CPSI
6600 Wall St.
Mobile, AL 36695
(800) 711-CPSI
Fax: (251) 639-8214

CPSI's ChartLink is a true web-enabled application that provides secure and interactive access to patient information on the CPSI system that is intuitive, functional, and available in real-time from across the street or across the world. Utilizing ISP connections and/or the hospitals internal network, ChartLink provides physicians with secure, HIPAA compliant access to patient information.

ChartLink access is easy and requires no special training. Each physician is assigned his or her own login and password. Once logged on, physicians are able to search for patients with customized access to their patients. Information for a selected patient is provided in a user-friendly virtual chart format that mimics a physical chart. The displayed chart has "tabs" for Vital Signs, Medical Records Transcriptions, Physician Order Entry, Laboratory Results, Patient Medications, Radiology Transcriptions, Multi-disciplinary Notes, Nursing Notes, Patient Education Documents, Cardiopulmonary, Rehabilitation Services, Dietary, Diabetic Information, Miscellaneous Information including access to scanned images, and a Registration Patient Face Sheet. Accessing the patient's information is as simple as selecting the desired "tab". For example, a physician wishing to review a patient's laboratory results would place the cursor on the virtual chart's Laboratory tab. The physician would then be presented with a drop down menu of the contents of that section and for selection of the desired report. Reports are displayed as finished documents in a separate browser window in Adobe PDF format.

The application is designed to function using Windows-based PCs and requires no additional client software other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, version 5.5 or later, and Adobe's Acrobat Reader, version 7.0 or later. Both Internet Explorer and Actobat Reader are available for download at no cost from the Microsoft and Adobe websites respectively.

ChartLink also features an optional and completely integrated Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) solution that provides physicians with real time order entry functions. ChartLink CPOE utilizes all of the safeguards built into the clinical applications to provide interactive alerts allowing physicians to treat their patients with improved patient safety.

ChartLink also features an integrated Computer Physician Order Enter (CPOE) functionality to allow physicians not only to review patient information, but to immediately act upon that information with orders entered in real time.

As reported in "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System", medical errors account for between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths annually in the United States. The costs of these preventable adverse events is estimated at between 17 and 29 billion dollars annually. The Leap Frog Group has studied the issue of patient safety and their number one suggested method to improve patient safety is Computerized Physician Order Entry.

ChartLink Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) expands the functionality of CPSI's Internet-based virtual chart - ChartLink - and provides physicians with a new level of convenience in providing care for their patients. The CPOE feature complements ChartLink?s up-to-the-minute availability of patient information with a real-time order placement function that immediately communicates care orders to the proper clinical department. The combination of complete patient information and CPOE in one convenient application lets physicians work more efficiently, greatly reduces the need for handwritten and telephone-placed orders and increases patient safety by eliminating errors due to misinterpretation or transcription. Full integration with the CPSI clinical modules further enhances patient safety by providing physicians with the same alerts and verifications that are included in the hospital order entry process. Designed for ease of use, CPOE utilizes point-and-click functionality with drop-down menus. The resulting CPOE process is user-friendly and requires very little training time for implementation.

Medication Order Entry: Medication Order Entry allows physicians to easily order medications and set administration frequency and duration parameters. To further support patient safety, the application is fully integrated with a selected patient?s demographics, laboratory values, electronic Medication Administration Record and the Pharmacy Drug Therapy Monitoring application to provide immediate alerts to the ordering physician of patient allergies, duplicate therapies, and/or possible drug interactions. If a medication returning an alert is ordered, the physician?s response to the warning is included in the patient?s record and available for review by other clinicians. With CPOE, potential drug problems can be identified and corrected at the beginning of the order process - long before a potentially life threatening adverse drug event.

Ancillary Order Entry: Ancillary Order Entry allows physicians to order ancillary tests and therapies for their patients and includes the efficient entry of start time and date, frequency, duration, priority, and any necessary notes. The order process flags duplicate therapies and also includes access to the hospital?s medical necessity profiles to allow the physician to verify that a desired test is consistent with the patient?s diagnosis and in compliance with any applicable local intermediary-based medical policies.