The ED Dashboard:

·       Is built using InterSystems post-relational technology, utilizing both Cache' and Ensemble in its architecture. This provides a technical base that makes it easy to integrate with existing hospital applications from vendors such as EPIC, Meditech, McKesson, GE, and many others.   

·       Uses secure web connections for remote monitoring of the emergency department from anywhere in the ED or in the hospital.

·       Resides on a central server that integrates with the Hospital Information System (HIS).

Features include the following:

·       A “department view” screen provides information on the status of the entire ED, helping to improve patient flow and department management. 

·       A “patient view” screen  provides clinicians with quick access to patient information — such as history, laboratory and radiology results — and offers communications with existing hospital information systems.

·       A clinical “alerts and reminders” engine is continuously running in the background of the system, analyzing and flagging concerns during each patient’s visit.   

·       An administrative department rules engine allows ED managers to address departmental problems in a timely manner (e.g. bottlenecks, diversions) and report on pay for performance core measures and quality indicators.