What is IMPACT at Placentia-Linda Hospital?

Strategic initiative to improve patient care through technology including:

 

• Hospital Electronic Medical Records (planned go-live October 2010)

–      Optimizing existing clinical functions

–      New  medication administration bar coding

–      New functions in clinical documentation, orders management, bedside medical devices, reporting

 

• Hospital Computerized Provider Order Entry (planned go-live September 2011)

 

• Community Health Information Exchange (HIE)

What IMPACT Means to our Patients

• Increased Patient Safety

–      Reduced medication errors due to illegibility and the availability of medication history

–      Access to the latest clinical practices that are made available to the physician and other care providers at point of care

–      Alerts built into the system to prevent clinical errors

–      Increased access to the medical record

–      Ability to obtain patient’s medical record in digital form