benefits to physicians
Bon Secours ConnectCare will enable the delivery of safe, effective, appropriate, and efficient care to patients with reliable, accurate, and valid clinical data available on a timely basis. The electronic format supports easier communication between physicians and patients and enables care teams to improve continuity of care regardless of location. ConnectCare can also help cut healthcare costs by reducing unnecessary and duplicative tests, procedures, and paperwork!
Better and Safer Care
- Improves patient safety by incorporating messages and alerts
- Provides most current clinical information and evidence-based leading clinical practices
- Reduces unnecessary and duplicative tests, procedures and paperwork
- Promotes earlier and better diagnosis and treatment of patient
- Information is summarized and easier to read with no need to hunt for results
Easier Care
- More comprehensive record than ever before with one patient, one record
- Chart is readily available at all times
- Can know what happened in the ED the night before
- Multiple access points
- Supports easier communication between physician and patient
- Enables care team to improve patient interaction and continuity of care
Efficiency
- Process is more streamlined with fewer necessary phone calls and better communication and information
- Rounds are easier; physicians have access to more information at the point of care
- Faster, better, and more comprehensive information allows earlier diagnosis/ treatment resulting in shorter lengths of stay
- Information accessible from home, office, or elsewhere
- Easy standard formats for various kinds of information
- Consistent clinical order sets designed by physicians for physicians
Throughout the rollout and implementation of ConnectCare, incorporating feedback from physicians has played a major role in how we have reached where we are today. More than 100 physicians from across Bon Secours (the majority being "non-employed") helped develop order sets and other aspects of the program.
The health system encourages ongoing physician input, and these efforts will be coordinated by the Physician Design Team (PDT) consisting of physicians from across the Bon Secours system.
