The new system was designed to enable physicians and nurses to reduce charting errors, eliminate wasteful and inefficient manual work and ultimately improve patient care. The majority of hospitals in the United States today manually create medical records and the myriad associated forms required to track patient care and generate billings. Charge items or forms that are lost or incomplete result in reduced accuracy and loss of revenue. Using Sun's Jini technology, Frontiers was designed to allow medical devices like heart monitors to configure themselves onto a clinical network and begin feeding data into an electronic medical record. Incorporating data entered by the physician through a customized Java-enabled workstation, a completed medical record is generated providing billing information for both hospitals and physicians.
Frontiers represents a sophisticated architecture for capturing data in the clinical environment.
This system is designed to be easy to deploy, easy for clinicians and administrators to use, requires a minimum of effort to maintain, and can be remotely supported. The majority of hospitals in the United States today manually create medical records and the myriad associated forms required to track patient care and generate billings. Charge items or forms that are lost or incomplete result in reduced accuracy and loss of revenue. The healthcare industry is now turning to information technology, like ours, to provide competitive advantage by reducing process overhead and increasing charge capture. Using Sun's Jini technology, Frontiers was designed to allow medical devices like heart monitors to configure themselves onto a clinical network and begin feeding data into an electronic medical record.