VA’s ED Situational Awareness Software Begets Process Improvement Tool

Healthcare Informatics: Starting in 2007, emergency departments in the Department of Veterans Affairs began adopting a system called Emergency Department Integration Software (EDIS). An extension of the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), EDIS was designed to help manage the delivery of care to patients in an emergency department (ED). The system, easily visible to clinicians on screens throughout the ED, tracks and records information about the status of each patient in the ED, how long they have been there, and the clinicians assigned to their care. The idea was to improve patient flow.

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