[General information system through whole hospital and electronic medical record system]

A new system has been introduced and implemented at the Nagoya City University Hospital since January 2004 in order to improve services for patients and general operation for management of the hospital. General Information System has been consisted with Electronic Medical Record System (EMRS), which is the core of all system and divisional system such as Clinical Laboratory Tests, Images, Medical Accounting and so on. A new system has been built and operated to work with the EMRS at the Department of Central Clinical Laboratory (CCL). To cooperate with the new system, we have constructed and operated directly the EMRS such as automatic registration the latest information on infectious diseases and blood transfusions, clinical reports on laboratory test through the hospital news and/or e-mail, introducing laboratory pre test before the consultation, rapid reports of panic values to the doctor in charge of the patients directly, the new system build up a closer cooperation between division of blood transfusion division and that of immuno-chemistry in CCL through EMRS. The new system has been brought not only efficiency and strengthen of function in CCL but also strengthen the service to patients in the hospital.