Coverage List: a provider-patient database supporting advanced hospital information services.

摘要: We have developed a provider-patient database system, known as Coverage List, which maintains the associations between house staff and inpatients in teaching hospital. List automatically links each patient to proper resident when is admitted, updates linkage whenever coverage changes due night or weekend coverage, physician illness, clinical rotations, other factors. Using this association, decision-support applications that detect significant events can transmit them directly responsible resident. Sign-out patient-review systems, collect information on all of physician's patients, always know patients for whom responsible. Nurses who need contact about issue covering patient. also manages schedule entry display physicians, any members. A enter individual changes, sign out her service pager day, page consultants without going through an operator. These functions support practice enhance value programs.