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MedRec, the online legal and archival record of patient care, is expected to become available to physicians and other caregivers in April, announced Peter Gregory, chief medical officer at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
MedRec complements LastWord, Stanford's recently implemented electronic physician order entry system, Gregory said. The two information sources will be available at any Stanford clinical workstation using a single user ID, said D'Arcy Myjer, director of Health Information Management Systems (Medical Records).
Tests of LastWord have been ongoing for more than a year with active input from a physician advisory committee. Meanwhile, MedRec was being tested on 100 workstations throughout the hospital in February.
MedRec is a Web-based, intranet program that will enable physicians and other clinical personnel to:
- View the
complete, archived medical chart health information of any patient seen
at SHC since Jan. 30, 1997.
- Have
immediate access to each patient's current chart material.
- Review a patient's chart simultaneously with someone else viewing the same record.
The LastWord application and MedRec differ in several ways. MedRec is the legal and archival record that contains the clinical results and transcribed reports available in LastWord, as well as all scanned documents, such as outside records, reference labs and handwritten notes.
LastWord continues as the primary "real-time" clinical resource, with MedRec as the comprehensive, legal repository of all patient health information, Myjer explained.
Caregivers will receive letters with a user ID, initial password and training guide. Additional training sessions will be held at the time of activation.
For information about MedRec, call Tess Martin at 723-5880. Information about web access to MedRec will be available in access/information packets supplied to physicians in late March or early April.
For questions about LastWord, contact Suzanne Taylor at 725-0249 or by e-mail at suzanne.taylor@medcenter.stanford.edu.
