PDAccess Clinical Assistant

1. PDAccess� Clinical Assistant

2. PDAccess� Clinical Assistant Imagine accessing patient information or entering vitals on a personal digital assistant (PDA) as you make rounds. PDAccess Clinical Assistant is a suite of applications that includes PDAccess Clinical Summary and PDAccess Vitals. Now, you can access or update the electronic patient chart using a palmtop device or personal PC. There�s no sifting through multiple patient charts or searching for results. This handheld solution helps you locate patients quickly and view their current orders, medications, allergies and results. You can also enter data. Diagnoses, allergies, and CPT codes, for example.

3. PDAccess� Clinical Summary Based on your viewing preference, you can begin your rounds with information on an individual patient or your entire census. Hyperlinks provide quick access to more detail.

4. PDAccess� Clinical Summary The Group Care Provider Census lists patients in the care of your group practice and their location in the hospital.

5. PDAccess� Clinical Summary Results from virtually any department or system within the enterprise can feed data into Siemens INVISION� or LCR� repositories, which, in turn, populates the electronic patient chart. The Chart Index indicates information categories for the electronic patient chart. Once you select a patient, the index is displayed for the patient named in the top right corner of the page.

6. PDAccess� Clinical Summary The most recent results are displayed first. Scroll right to see the results history. Abnormal results are red for quick recognition. To see the reference ranges for the result, click on the hyperlink. The up/down arrows allow scrolling one line at a time.

7. PDAccess� Clinical Summary Additional information is available to show if results are within or outside the normal range.

8. PDAccess� Clinical Summary In addition to numeric results, you can view the comprehensive text of a dictated report.

9. PDAccess� Clinical Summary

10. PDAccess� Clinical Summary Patient demographic and emergency contact information is also accessible from PDAccess Clinical Summary.

11. PDAccess� Clinical Summary PDAccess Clinical Summary can even provide information about the patient�s insurance coverage.

12. PDAccess� Clinical Summary After assessing a patient, use the Rounds Tracker feature of PDAccess Clinical Summary to document patient diagnoses, CPT codes, and allergies.

13. PDAccess� Clinical Summary You can quickly and easily enter information into Rounds Tracker using predefined, customizable drop-down lists. Then, copy it to the memo pad, beam it to an IR-enabled printer, or e-mail it to another physician.

14. PDAccess� Clinical Summary You can maintain your �To Do� list on PDAccess Clinical Summary. View a list of all uncompleted �To Do� items; check off items as completed to remove them from the list.

15. PDAccess� Clinical Summary PDAccess Clinical Summary dramatically streamlines rounding. It is easy to indicate which patients you saw during rounds.

16. PDAccess� Vitals

17. PDAccess� Vitals In addition to viewing the patient�s record, you can also chart the patient�s vital signs with PDAccess Vitals. To begin, you select the patient from your unit census.

18. PDAccess� Vitals You then indicate that you want to chart vital signs.

19. PDAccess� Vitals Using either handwriting recognition with the stylus, or the numeric keypad, you can document the patient�s temperature.

20. PDAccess� Vitals You can document additional observations from predefined menu options.

21. PDAccess� Vitals The item you select from the menu displays.

22. PDAccess� Vitals Once the vital signs are complete, you touch the Save button. If on a wireless network, the patient�s record can be updated before you leave the room by touching the Send button. If you don�t have a wireless network, information can be uploaded into the patient�s record via a cradle or infrared transmission.

23. PDAccess� Clinical Assistant PDAccess Clinical Assistant runs on any PDA using Palm OS� or Microsoft� Pocket PC operating system.

24. PDAccess� Clinical Assistant PDAccess Clinical Assistant supports your natural workflow, and frees you from searching for information. Now you have the information at hand to provide both efficient and effective patient care.