Transferring data securely from medical devices to EMRs

摘要

Administrators in the cardiac electrophysiology clinic at the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, struggled to keep up with the stacks of paper produced by medical devices used to monitor patients' hearts. They would spend hours upon hours scanning sheets of paper so that the results could be transferred to the hospital's electronic medical records (EMR) system. Kimberly A. Selzman, M.D., director of arrhythmia/ cardiac electrophysiology at the Salt Lake V.A. medical center, wanted to find a way to electronically transfer those records.