InterSystems Corporation today announced that Sir Ganga Ram Hospital  a 675 bed multi specialty state of the art hospital in New Delhi  has deployed the electronic patient record  EPR  within the InterSystems TrakCare™ advanced Web based healthcare information system  enabling analysis to be performed on clinical data captured from 89  of inpatient visits
This significant breakthrough builds upon a TrakCare implementation already delivering a wide range of benefits  These include increased outpatient throughput  savings through better inventory and medical package control and support for pharmaceutical substitution  more rapid access to laboratory results  and reduced adverse allergy and drug interaction incidents
Further benefits enabled by the new EPR include dashboards supporting key performance indicators  KPIs  and clinical governance  analysable clinical data for enhanced quality of care and medical research  automated discharge summaries and improved data protection of medical records  Many of these benefits are designed to drive EPR adoption among clinicians  all of whom already use TrakCare to access laboratory results and medical imaging
The main incentive driving clinicians to adopt the EPR is the automated discharge summary for patients  Hospital departments previously typed discharge summaries on a word processor  This information is now entered directly into the TrakCare EPR and TrakCare automatically creates and prints out the discharge summary
 The immediate return offered by automating discharge summaries  while smaller than the returns from data retrieval at a later date  has enabled us to achieve an EPR capturing 89  of inpatient visits   said Dr  Karanvir Singh  Consultant Surgeon and Head of Medical Informatics for Sir Ganga Ram Hospital   The successful design of the discharge summary module   which takes granular ICD 10 coded data and converts it into something readable by patients   was a very important factor in the EPR s success 
According to Dr  Singh  the return on investment  ROI  from TrakCare has come from using healthcare information to define  guide and measure enterprise process improvements
 Essentially  analytics is what provides the ROI on healthcare information system investment   said Dr  Singh   Our first tangible ROI was when we analysed the various patient treatment packages offered by the hospital  Another ROI was identifying workflow bottlenecks and streamlining processes as a result  All this has been possible because decision makers are now getting data within minutes or hours  which used to take weeks or months to deliver 
The new TrakCare based EPR has enabled Sir Ganga Ram Hospital to perform analysis of clinical data to support improved quality of care and clinical governance  This includes defining key performance indicators  KPIs  and scorecards  and building dashboards to display them to hospital decision makers
According to Dr  Singh  KPIs and scorecards are a valuable clinical governance tool   A series of KPIs in a dashboard are included in the opening screen for the hospital s CEO  At any stage  the CEO can click on a displayed KPI speedometer and drill down to see details of the underlying data  More complex scorecards are ideal for displaying the ‘health of the hospital  
When designing the EPR screens in TrakCare  Sir Ganga Ram ensured all data was captured in a structured fashion so it would be suitable for data analysis  Data is entered from pre populated lists using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision  ICD 10  coding standard  Entry of unstructured text is restricted as it is of little value for subsequent data analysis or future clinical decision support systems
 The availability of analysable data was a further incentive offered to clinicians to encourage them to adopt the EPR   said Dr  Singh   India has a huge population and the volume of patient throughput is something not available in many western hospitals  If doctors can analyse this volume of data they can also obtain more research material and therefore gain more opportunities to be published 
Improved data continuity of medical records is also an important benefit  Before entry in the EPR  patient data was lost over time as it was often impossible to locate word processor files after a few months  The central EPR now backs up all clinical data  ensuring medical records remain available for years or even decades if required
 TrakCare enables us to capture  store  share and act intelligently upon patient data   said Dr  Singh   This enables us to provide better care to our patients  while improving our operations 
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