The Electronic Forms module replaces paper-based patient data and care forms
with user-defined electronic ones. Displayed and completed on-line using
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the module's forms are easy to use and can be
customized to meet such needs as emergency department triage, trauma, and
assessments, modality worksheets, consent for treatment, information release
requests, transfers, etc. The possibilities are limitless. Completed forms
become a permanent part of the patient's electronic medical record with
access provided to patient care forms from within the clinical record. In
addition to their convenience, electronic forms are also a more efficient
use of system resources with each form requiring significantly less storage space than a comparable scanned document.
The module's form creation function allows the hospital to define the
layout, questions, response, and ad hoc query options of each form.
Multiple color, line, font, and image options create the final
onscreen/printed look of the form and allow the highlighting of critical
data. The result is on-screen forms that actually look like the paper forms
they replace. Custom on-line help can be integrated into each form to
provide instructions and visual guides to support form completion. The
module also includes an image markup tool for use with anatomic or diagram
images to document patient conditions or injury circumstances. |