Automated Charting and Systems Integration: For Patients' Safety and Our Sanity

Gilman B Allen¹, Karen Rounds, Peter J Pronovost

• ¹Gilman B. Allen is Director of Adult Critical Care Services and Medical ICU, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center, HSRF 220, 149 Beaumont Ave, Burlington, VT 05405 (gil.allen@med.uvm.edu). Karen Rounds is Nurse Manager, Medical Intensive Care Unit, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington. Peter J. Pronovost is Director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality; The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Departments of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine and Surgery; The Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy & Management; and The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Carey Business School, Baltimore, Maryland.