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PVH and EMMC Share Information
July 8, 2009
Doctors, nurses, and other care providers at Penobscot Valley Hospital and Eastern Maine Medical Center are sharing confidential information through secure, remote access. PVH was the first hospital in the region to benefit from EMMC’s plan to improve the safety, quality, and continuity of health care. It’s also a key component of EMMC’s Outreach program, which links EMMC physicians with patients’ primary care providers.
PVH has “read-only” access to the information recorded by nursing care managers and attending or primary care providers who work through EMMC. The Lincoln hospital can only access information on mutual patients.
This system streamlines the care management process and allows for better communication, as well as minimizing the chances of errors and duplication of care. As the Clinical Coordinator of Information Services for PVH, Kathy Schneider, RN says, “The program ensures that providers have the opportunity to review all the results, medications, and procedures performed for a patient under the other facility’s care.”
“Although this is a pilot project, the initial results are encouraging, and additional facilities are requesting the electronic medical record (EMR) access for their licensed providers,” says Eric Hartz, MD, EMMC’s Chief Medical Information Officer. “In a new generation of EMR, this interconnectivity is instrumental in meeting the changing needs of the people served by the hospitals of our region.”
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