In the hospital setting, where patients seek life-saving emergency, critical and acute care, the need for immediate clinical information is paramount.

Hospitals typically have an adequate record system for patient clinical information collected within the walls of the hospital, but there is no efficient means to access clinical information from outside the hospital setting, other than asking the patient or family, or telephoning, faxing and mailing medical records from ambulatory offices.

Solutions to these issues are now available through the integrated clinical information provided by the Medisyn Systems health information exchange.

Hospitals will improve patient safety with the use of Medisyn Systems through:

• Integrating the formerly decentralized and fragmented records of a patient’s ambulatory clinical encounters into a cumulative health record that can be immediately accessed by the care provider inside the hospital with the click of a mouse.
  
  
• Reducing medical and medication errors with complete ambulatory health records available in all departments within the hospital (ER, nursing units, outpatient diagnostics and surgery, inpatient wards).
  
  
• Coordinating the care a patient receives in the hospital with the care plans initiated by the patient’s primary and specialty care physicians.
  
  
• Electing to integrate key hospital documents (i.e., operative and discharge notes) into the Medisyn lifetime clinical record.

Hospitals will gain improved economies with the use of
Medisyn Systems by:

• Reducing the resources expended to collect past medical and medication histories from patients and their families upon admission.
  
  
• Allowing physicians and nurses to focus on patient care rather than paper work.
  
  
• Increasing collection rates through Medisyn’s providing current insurance information to improve billing functions.
  
  
• Speeding admission processes through availability of Medisyn's demographic and medical history information.

Hospitals will reduce direct medical costs with the use of
Medisyn Systems through:

• Reduced hospital inpatient bed days and maximized DRGs.
  
  
• Faster and more accurate diagnoses in ER.
  
  
• Elimination of duplicate and unnecessary diagnostic testing.
  
  
• Expedite discharges to nursing, rehab, and home health care agencies.

Hospitals’ compliance with accreditation standards will be improved with the use of Medisyn Systems by:

• Facilitating off-site physician signatures on hospital notes to reduce the number of patient charts held as delinquent due to missing physician signature.