Electronic Health Records Project

EHR Components

No.	Electronic Health Record Component	Priority
		Required	Highly Desired	Desired
A. Patient Management / Patient Accounting Systems
1	Admission/Discharge/Transfer Registration System (including bed management)	x
2	Patient Tracking System		x
3	Enterprise Master Patient Index	x
4	Patient Accounting	x
5	Physician Billing	x
6	Payor Verification/Eligibility		x
7	Document Imaging (Business Office and Clinical)		x
8	Medical Records Management (coding, abstracting, chart management, release of info.)		x
9	Transcription		x
10	Enterprise Patient and Resource Scheduling	x
11	Integrated Physician Consult Management (notification and scheduling)		x
B. Clinical Information Systems
12	Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)	x
13	Order Entry	x
14	Results Management	x
15	Clinical Data Repository	x
16	Clinical Decision Support	x
17	Device integration (monitors, pumps, POC testing – with automated data capture features)		x
18	Real-time Clinical Alerts	x
19	Critical Results Notification		x
20	Clinical Messaging	x
21	Multi-disciplinary Clinical Documentation	x
22	Clinical Content		x
23	Clinical Trials Management (including compliance management)		x
24	Patient / Consumer Portal		x
25	Physician Portal	x
26	Patient Acuity			x
27	Medication Administration Record (with bar coding)	x
C. Ancillary Systems
28	Pharmacy Management(including e-prescribing, Pyxis interface)	x
29	Outpatient Pharmacy			x
30	Laboratory / Pathology Information Systems (general, microbiology, blood bank, anatomic pathology with PACS interface, reference lab, instrument interfaces)			x
D. Enterprise Resource Management Systems
31	Materials Management (surgical, clinical)			x
E. Specialty Services
32	Peri-operative System (pre-op, surgical, post-op, anesthesia)			x
33	Emergency Department		x
34	Cardiology Information system (with PACS interface)			x
35	Oncology Information System			x
36	Infection Control Reporting			x
37	Allied Health System (Occupational, Physical, Speech & Respiratory Therapy)			x
38	Hemodynamic Monitoring			x
39	NICU			x
40	ICU			x
41	Labor & Delivery (bedside charting, monitoring)			x
F. Decision Support System or Functions
42	Outcomes Management / Performance Improvement	x
43	Risk Management / Quality Assurance		x
44	Case Management & Utilization Review		x
45	Clinical and Financial Data Warehouse	x
46	Expert analytics and reporting	x
47	User reporting tools	x
48	Medical Staff Credentialing			x
G. Ambulatory Information Systems
49	Ambulatory EMR (e-prescribing, clinical content, clinician documentation, etc.)	x
50	Ambulatory clinic and practice management (administrative tools)		x
H. Technical
51	Biometrics			x
52	Workflow		x
53	Rules Engine	x
54	Interface Engine		x
55	Data Dictionary	x
56	Communication tools (especially between clinical providers)	x
57	Phone Call Management		x
58	Integrated Voice Response		x
59	Single Sign-on Integrated with Microsoft Active Directory			x
60	High Availability	x
61	Disaster Recovery	x
62	Operating Software	x
63	System Tools (including strong user access security features)	x
64	HIPAA Compliance Support (auditing, security and patient confidentiality features)	x