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At the EDIS Symposium each year, a big question for attendees is “should we install the ED module of our hospital-wide information system (HIS), or should we install a ‘niche’ system that’s designed specifically for the ED?” Traditional wisdom has it that the “niche” systems, also known as “best-of-breed,” will work better than the ED-specific […]

Most users (myself included) spend most of their time in front of a computer in a kind of fuzzy autopilot mode, and anything that creates ripples on that placid lake of unawareness is going to be noticed as a disproportionately significant problem. –David Harris, creator of Pegasus Mail In Icons, Pegagogic Vectors, Forms Design and […]

There are many websites and blogs devoted to emergency medicine, and to medical informatics. There are a few devoted to emergency informatics. One of the oldest and most well-respected is ncemi.org, founded by Dr. Craig Feied and friends. Craig is longtime member of the Informatics Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians, formerly of […]

God is in the details –Mies van der Rohe The primary function of an ED tracking system – at least if you look at it from the right direction – is to display relevant, timely data to the user. A tracking system may do other things, but this function of data display is arguably its […]

Where is the Chart!?!? If you visit different EDs, one of the most common tracking-type refrains you hear is “Where is Room 5’s chart? I’ve been looking for it for fifteen minutes!” Such problems delay ED patient care, and are one of the great motivators for moving to an all-electronic chart, one that can be […]