EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE PATIENT INFORMATION SYSTEM Loretta Cook, Systems Analyst Saint Elizabeths Hosoital BCGON AKRUD The Emergency Psychiatric Service is the entry point for a l l patients Hospital entering with or receiving treatment at Saint Elizabeth EPS staff the exception of forensic evaluation, patients. referral, perform patient screening, treatment, and admissions for the hospital 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Documentation maintained of patient contacts by the EPS staff was This manually for o v e r 6000 contacts each year. process was so labor-intensive and time-consuming that and interpretation of the d a t a collected was analysis A minimal. computerized objective system was implemented to enable E S to meet t h e i r P of a detailed patient tracking system for internal and patient information management and reporting hospital-wide requirements. M N OPTIONS E U The the entry to the Patient Information Computer System is through Menu Main Menu, where the operator can choose several options. options are l i s t e d in Exhib}ts 9 through 12. DATA COLLECTION (i) Admission/Non-Admission Lo..~ Data A log sheet (Exhibit staff. service, 13) is log maintained contains data for by the E
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