Integration Does Not Need To Be Expensive Or Complicated

St John’s Medical Center in West Lake, OH successfully went live with TrackCore in June 2010. They are using TrackCore to track all their cellular and synthetic implants from the loading dock all the way through final disposition. One of the challenges for the clinical staff was the completion of the patient information in TrackCore. Due to IT department constraints they were not able to provide an HL7 or webservices integration between Meditech and TrackCore at the time of go live. To help ease the charting demands on nursing, the IT team generated a report out of Meditech, like this one http://www.lpitsolutions.com/resourcedocuments/MeditechBarcodeSheet.pdf, for all patients booked for surgery. The report is placed in the patient’s chart in the holding area, and contains individual barcodes for Medical Record Number, Account/Visit Number, Patient Name, and Date of Birth. This allows the Circulating Nurse to scan the patient information directly into the implant screen in TrackCore thus dramatically reducing both the number of keystrokes and the time to complete the implant record.