Landstuhl to use electronic medical records

Landstuhl to use electronic medical records
By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Jan 16, 2008 16:04:55 EST

After decades of doctors treating brain injuries, heart problems and complex war wounds at Landstuhl Army Medical Center in Germany, hospital administrators there have also belatedly leaped the technological divide to create electronic records.

CliniComp International has been awarded a contract to create and track electronic medical records at the Defense Department’s largest hospital outside the continental U.S. The company provides the service for 18 other military hospitals, which together comprise 45 percent of inpatient beds in the military system.

Most troops evacuated from Iraq or Afghanistan spend time at Landstuhl before being transported to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.; the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.; or Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.

But in the past, those service members often arrived hand-carrying their medical records, and doctors on the ground often did not know the immediate medical histories of the patients they would soon be treating.

Doug Masiel, vice president of sales at CliniComp, said the system — Essentris clinical suite — will keep track of every procedure or test done on service members admitted to the hospital on a minute-by-minute basis. As such, the system will not capture outpatient records.


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