Cost of Electronic Health Records

 

 

Step 1: System Requirements


This is the first step in conducting a rapid policy analysis concerning cost of Electronic Health Record within your organization.   Answer the questions on this page to define extent of services covered by your electronic health record.   

1. Enter the access code:                  

 
This is a 6 character long text or number that you selected to link your data together.  You must enter exactly same access code, otherwise your responses will not be linked together.  If you have forgotten the code, please start with a new code and re-enter your data under this new code. 

2.  Is this electronic health record provided as an application service by an outside organization?

2. Describe the components of Electronic Health Records that was implemented (use the list below to select specific components available in your setting):   

Please specify using complete sentences:

 

List of Common Components

Here is a list of components recommended by Medsphere:

  • Patient Information Management
    • Admission, Discharge, and Transfer
    • Patient Registration
    • Enterprise Master Patient Index
    • Patient Scheduling
  • Health Information Management
    • Document Management
    • Record Management
    • Electronic Signature
    • Transcribed Documents
  • Clinical Information System
    • Clinical Alerts and Reminders
    • Clinical Rules Engine
    • Consults Tracking
    • Order Management
    • Results Reporting
    • Clinical Documentation
    • Computerized Provider Order Entry
    • Intake/Output
    • Patient Education
    • Vitals/Measurements
  • Laboratory
    • Anatomic Pathology
    • Microbiology
    • Chemistry
  • Pharmacy
    • Adverse Reaction Tracking
    • Electronic Medication Administration Record
    • Bar Code Medication Administration
    • Inpatient/Outpatient Pharmacy
  • Radiology
    • General Radiology
    • Nuclear Medicine
  • Imaging
    • Clinical Image Viewer
    • Document Imaging
  • Nutrition and Food Service
    • Clinical Nutrition
    • Food Service Management

Components of VistA

Here is a list of common components of VistA that might be used to describe element of EHR within your setting: 

  • Automated Medical Information Exchange (AMIE)
  • Incident Reporting
  • Lexicon Utility
  • Occurrence Screen
  • Patient Representative
  • Registration, Enrollment, and Eligibility Systems
  • Admission, Discharge, Transfer (ADT) /Registration
  • Clinical Monitoring System
  • Enrollment Application System (EAS)
  • Hospital Inquiry (HINQ)
  • Income Verification Match (IVM)
  • Record Tracking
  • Resident Assessment Instrument/Minimum Data Set (RAI/MDS)
  • Veteran Identification Card (VIC)
  • Health Provider Systems
  • Care Management
  • Clinical Procedures
  • Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS)
  • CPRS: Adverse Reaction Tracking
  • CPRS: Authorization/Subscription Utility (ASU)
  • CPRS: Clinical Reminders
  • CPRS: Consult/Request Tracking
  • CPRS: Health Summary
  • CPRS: Problem List
  • CPRS: Text Integration Utilities (TIU)
  • Dentistry
  • Hepatitis C Case Registry
  • Home Based Primary Care (HBPC)
  • Immunology Case Registry (ICR)
  • Intake and Output
  • Laboratory
  • Laboratory: Anatomic Pathology
  • Laboratory: Blood Bank
  • Laboratory: Electronic Data Interchange (LEDI)
  • Medicine
  • Mental Health
  • Nursing
  • Nutrition and Food Service (N&FS)
  • Oncology
  • Pharmacy: Automatic Replenishment/Ward Stock (AR/WS)
  • Pharmacy: Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA)
  • Pharmacy: Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP)
  • Pharmacy: Controlled Substances
  • Pharmacy: Drug Accountability/Inventory Interface
  • Pharmacy: Electronic Claims Management Engine (ECME)
  • Pharmacy: Inpatient Medications
  • Pharmacy: Inpatient Medications - Intravenous (IV)
  • Pharmacy: Inpatient Medications - Unit Dose (UD)
  • Pharmacy: National Drug File (NDF)
  • Pharmacy: Outpatient Pharmacy
  • Pharmacy: Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM)
  • Pharmacy: Pharmacy Data Management (PDM)
  • Pharmacy: Pharmacy Prescription Practices (PPP)
  • Primary Care Management Module (PCMM)
  • Prosthetics
  • Quality: Audiology And Speech Analysis And Reporting (QUASAR)
  • Radiology/Nuclear Medicine
  • Remote Order Entry System (ROES)
  • Scheduling
  • Social Work
  • Spinal Cord Dysfunction
  • Surgery
  • Surgery: Risk Assessment
  • VistA Imaging System
  • VistA Imaging: Core Infrastructure
  • VistA Imaging: Document Imaging
  • VistA Imaging: Filmless Radiology
  • VistA Imaging: Imaging Ancillary Systems
  • Visual Impairment Service Team (VIST)
  • Vitals/Measurements
  • Women’s Health
  • Management and Financial Systems
  • Accounts Receivable (AR)
  • Automated Information Collection System (AICS)
  • Beneficiary Travel
  • Compensation and Pension Records Interchange (CAPRI)
  • Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
  • Decision Support System (DSS) Extracts
  • Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) Grouper
  • Engineering
  • Equipment/Turn-In Request
  • Event Capture
  • Fee Basis
  • Generic Code Sheet
  • Incomplete Records Tracking (IRT)
  • Integrated Funds Distribution, Control Point Activity, Accounting and Procurement (IFCAP)
  • Integrated Patient Funds
  • Integrated Billing (IB)
  • Patient Care Encounter (PCE)
  • Personnel and Accounting Integrated Data (PAID)
  • Voluntary Service System (VSS)
  • Information and Education Systems
  • Automated Safety Incident Surveillance Tracking System (ASISTS)
  • Library
  • Police and Security
  • Cross-Cutting Monographs
  • Duplicate Record Merge
  • Health Level Seven (HL7)
  • Kernel
  • Kernel ToolKit
  • List Manager
  • MailMan
  • Master Patient Index (MPI) and Master Patient Index/Patient Demographics (MPI/PD)
  • My HealtheVet
  • Network Health Exchange (NHE)
  • Patient Data Exchange (PDX)
  • Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Broker
  • VA FileMan
  • VistALink

This page is part of the Rapid Analysis for Electronic Health records.   This page was last edited on 03/10/2006 by Farrokh Alemi, Ph.D.  Please report any problems with the page to Farrokh Alemi, Ph.D.