[MT-L] Bed Board?

[Lisa Rodger]

Hi everyone,
Is anyone successfully (or unsuccessfully) using the Bed Board function in Meditech? We are Magic 5.6.4 and are considering an implementation.

I'm interested in knowing your thoughts with the functionality. Hurdles you had to overcome during the implementation. Lessons learned. Also ... did you have to clean up/reorganize your locations at all?

Thanks for any feedback!

~Lisa

Lisa Rodger

Clinical Project Manager
Saints Medical Center
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[LANG, GAIL]

We did minimal location clean up. Our rooms sort well by Service as
they are. We are implementing in stages. 1)Admissions Staff: Used a
manual bed board that users updated with cards & handwritten pt names.
Admissions LOVES the new bed board. We use specifically designed detail
fields to meet needs of user groups, i.e. Case Mgmt restricted to
occupied beds only, Observation Hrs so far, language, etc. Ins Pre-Cert
users see LOS, primary/secondary ins.etc. 2) Housekeeping: We are
purchasing Forward Advantage "Telephony" system so Hskp Staff can use
the phone to dial a code indicating the room/bed is "CLNG In Process"
or "Clean". 3)Nursing: Unit Secretaries on a trial floor manage their
own bed swaps & xfers. Next week they will begin doing the discharges.
I am working on D/C's auto-paging the housekeeper. I am challenged
trying to convince Nursing Administration of how efficient bed
management could be if using Reservations, Bed Requests, auto paging,
etc. They are reluctant to give up their manual process and (multiple)
phone calls.

Gail M Lang
gl...@milreg.org

[Smith, Joan]

At a previous place of employment I deployed the Meditech Magic 5.61 Bed Board in the Spring of 2008. We later upgraded to version 5.63.

1. Nursing uses the Bed Board to discharge patients. This triggers a page to EVS and prints a notice to Bed Control.

2. Charge nurses are responsible for verifying once a shift that the Bed Board is accurate and reflects the correct census, isolation patients are designated correctly, and blocked beds are also correctly identified.

3. We also set up devices on the nursing stations with dual screens and capable of running 2 Meditech sessions. One screen was used to log in to the Meditech Bed Board using a generic unit specific log in and password that was actually posted on the screen. That log in had only one menu option, to run / display the Bed Board for just that unit. That log in did not allow you to process any ADT transactions. The intention was to replace the white board list of patients that was posted on each nursing unit prior to the renovation of the nursing units. All it did was:
a) display the bed board for that unit
b) refresh every 30 seconds
c) if it was a large unit you could scroll up and down the list of beds/patients.
If nursing staff wanted to log on to that device, they did so by logging in as themselves and using the other screen (opposite from the one running the Bed Board) to view their system session, process patient orders, document care or discharge the patient.

4. The Bed Board is configured to page EVS (sends an OA message via the internet to the internet address of alpha-numeric pagers) when the patient vacates the bed because the patient has either been transferred out of the bed or because the patient has been discharged.

5. We purchased and implemented the Bed Stat interface from Forward Advantage in 2008 too. EVS calls in when they start cleaning the bed and then again when they finished cleaning the bed. These calls update the bed status on the Bed Board in real time.

7. We purchased from Meditech a custom enhancement so that the bed displays green on the Bed Board when EVS is in the process of cleaning it.

8. We outsourced our EVS productivity (NPR) report to Iatric so that it captures the turn around times between the first call from EVS and the second call from EVS sorted by the EVS technician.

9. We were working on using the Bed Board Transport features for transporting patients to and from Radiology when I left that job.

I did a presentation on the Meditech Magic Bed Board at the November 2008 Muse Eastern Conference. If you want to chat please negotiate an appointment date and time via email and submit a list of questions to me 24 hours before the call.

Joan M. Smith MSN, RN-BC
Senior Clinical Analyst
Ascension Health Information Services
Providence Hospital
1150 Varnum Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017
202-534-4232

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Thanks for any feedback!

~Lisa

Lisa Rodger

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[Harry Rianto]

Any facility with Magic using PatientOrderSets.com? How is it integrated with Meditech OE and other Modules?

Any feedback appreciated.

Thanks,

Harry Rianto
Systems Analyst
Information Technology & Services
Consolidated Health Information Services
 
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