Cerner PowerChart offers medical facilities many advantages and opportunities. PowerChart is an electronic medical record with components that are designed to work across different facilities and departments. It streamlines the workflow process for clinicians onto one desktop platform, with a wide range of clinical and administrative functions.
By combining all of the elements of the electronic medical record into one application, PowerChart can do more than other systems. It gives users an integrated, clinical database, enabling them to examine clinical data and to enter documentation in a format that is form-based and has a structured text approach. PowerChart can be used to enter, store and access patient health information for both acute and ambulatory care.
Usage by Medical Professionals
Healthcare professionals can use the Cerner PowerChart to access test results and other clinical information to get up-to-date data from a range of different areas. Because it gives a comprehensive picture of a patient’s health background, Cerner PowerChart enables clinicians to focus on the overall health of the patient, rather than just his or her current problem. With PowerChart, clinicians can quickly and easily document results, allowing others to access current information about the patient and enabling them to make more informed decisions.
PowerChart includes all documentation that a clinician needs, including records of inpatient, outpatient, emergency department, urgent care, clinic, and some physician office visits. It also includes demographic information, insurance information, allergy information, lab reports, radiology reports (with images), and cardiology reports, with viewable wave forms. PowerChart also contains dictated and transcribed reports – which includes medical history, consults, admission and discharge summaries, emergency department notes, progress notes, operative and procedure notes, clinic notes, and discharge summaries.
With the Cerner electronic medical record, it is much easier to identify patients and coordinate their care. There is less duplicate testing because outpatient results are in the report and a file for inpatient visits. Additionally, more than one person can use the PowerChart at the same time from any location. This is especially useful if a patient is being treated by more than one department, so all personnel can see pertinent information including vital signs, intake and output, patient care notes, medication and IVs delivered, patient education documentation, and plan of care.
The electronic medical chart also records the code status, medicine reconciliation worksheets, discharge worksheets and orders. So whether there are pharmaceutical prescriptions written, or discharge orders written for outpatient therapy, the medical chart clearly documents all information.
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