CRITICAL MEDICAL INFORMATION FROM 1 SOURCE
From online shopping and social networking to bill paying and even applying for a job, our lives are becoming increasingly digital.
Why shouldn’t health care also be convenient and efficient?
Now it is.
Introducing CHARTS – Connecting Health and Records Technology Systems – a pilot project for health providers to access and share critical patient medical records on-demand at hospital emergency departments throughout Central Florida. Patients deserve and expect timely and well-informed medical decisions, and CHARTS provides the data support to make that happen.
Accurate, timely – and secure
Health-care information collected within the CHARTS digital network is quick and easy to access by authorized users. The network is secure to ensure patient confidentiality. Similar to a data exchange among financial institutions, CHARTS is a shared database of patient medical information, such as new medications, hospital admissions, recent lab tests and other important details, submitted by the Florida Hospital and Orlando Health systems in Central Florida. Medical staff in emergency departments can instantly access and evaluate this critical information – from either hospital system – to make accurate, timely decisions on patient care.
The benefits of CHARTS:
- Access: Authorized physicians gain immediate, secure access to patient medical records, avoiding possible delays via traditional medical transcript requests.
- Cooperation: Medical staff can review treatment notes and other critical information from Florida Hospital and Orlando Health through one central data system.
- Safety: Quicker access to patients' treatment records and discharge reports from multiple hospitals can mean more timely and accurate diagnoses.
- Secure: Privacy on a trusted and secure information network.
- Efficiencies: Eliminating redundant tests saves consumers co-pays and deductibles out of their own pockets.
- Green: Electronic record keeping reduces paper use by health-care providers by decreasing the need to send hard copies of medical information.
