ABSTRACT
One of the system’s hospitals, a hospital-wide implementation was planned to transition to a new electronic health record (EHR) system for both the inpatient and outpatient facilities. Prior to the EHR system migration, the documentation was highly fragmented because various systems were used for admitting, discharging, billing, and documenting patient care. Prior to the system migration, documentation for mothers in the Labor and Delivery department took place in EHR A, and the documentation for the baby was done in EHR B. A new fetal monitoring system was selected because of its capability to interface with the new EHR. Documentation and vital signs from the fetal monitoring system would flow directly into the EHR, and information entered in the EHR would flow back to the fetal monitoring system. Much planning took place in anticipation of the new EHR and new fetal monitoring system.
