Introduction of the inter-professional clinical recording incorporated into the electronic critical path

Abstract

In Kagawa Rosai hospital, continuous improvement is given to the electronic medical record and electronic critical path systems configuration to make for easier and more staff-considerate use since the introduction of the order-entry system in 2004, and the electronic medical record in 2007.

Recently, execution of “team health care” had become indispensable in improvement of the medical quality． This time, "team clinical record" to enable inter-professional recording was added as a new function to the path. Nutrition support team, skin and excretion care team, infection control team, palliative care team, respiration support team, post-hospital discharge adjustment team, and the medical safety control team were added to the vertical item of the basic format of an electronic critical path as an item relevant to “team health care”,

We report of our findings of this new function.