On June 5, 2007, the Emergency Department at Spalding Regional Medical Center launched a new paperless tracking and charting system that streamlines the patient experience including registration, triage, order entries, clinical documentation, discharge instructions and billing.
The automated process keeps a patient’s record together in one computerized file and eliminates the need to input the same data multiple times. This improves the efficiency of Spalding Regional’s Emergency Department and reduces the time physicians and staff has to spend entering patient information and tracking patient care. With the use of laptops and computers on wheels, physicians and staff members can enter patient information and orders into the computerized file throughout the department and at patient bedside.