Epiccare EMR System

Information Systems in Healthcare
HIT120: Introduction to Health Services and Information Systems
Eva-Ellen Mandler
Devry University
Course Project
August 25, 2013

The healthcare system I choose to research was the EpicCare EMR System it is used by all of the Aurora Medical Centers personnel and including the sexual assault nurse examiner (S.A.N.E.) program. This system is used to help all the professionals in the building whether it be the hospital, clinic, or outside of the hospital for example the visiting nurses and hospice. You will read about the Healthcare facility, who exactly uses the information stored in the Epic system, whom that can access the medical health information, about the system,
program is very sensitive information and is therefore made so that only a very few can access this information. Medical records can be retrieved if the patients request it in writing and if it’s subpoenaed by the court or an attorney for a trial. Any S.A.N.E. may pull up the record to add something to her own charting or to review a chart that she has to testify in court on or for peer review by another S.A.N.E. nurse. Admitting can only pull up the part of the EPIC chart that allows them to admit the patient and discharge them in the system they are unable to see anything else to do with these types of patients. There is also a page in the EPIC record for billing that the billing people may pull up but like admitting they cannot open any other part of these EPIC records. The system is made with safe guards so only S.A.N.E. nurses can open these records regularly.
How is information access? All but a few consents are on the electronic EPIC system at Aurora for the S.A.N.E. program. Meanwhile the few paper consents that are still on paper are signed by the patient and then sent to medical records where they are scanned into the EPIC system, so they can be seen along with all other records when needed. The electronic system of EPIC is on the desktop stations, handheld tablets, laptops, and on workstations on wheels (WOW).
Donna felt that it had cut their exam times by an hour and a half to two hours due to the fact that they didn’t have to write out all of their paperwork. It has also been a great help to the law enforcement and the District Attorney to not have to try to read and figure out what the nurses written on their reports due to different hand writing skills. With EPIC print outs on the computer it is easy to read and helps the process of going to court and making it so much