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Chapter 15 - Sepsis
from Section II: - Systemic disorders and management
- By Yasser Tolba, David Thickett
Edited by Fang Gao Smith, University of Warwick
Edited in association with Joyce Yeung
Book:

Core Topics in Critical Care Medicine

Published online:

06 July 2010

Print publication:

22 April 2010, pp 99-107
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Summary

The different functions of an information system in critical care are: bedside charting, clinical record keeping, electronic prescribing (physician order entry), integration with other hospital systems, decision support, remote access, and multi-site communication. The information system generates an enormous amount of data. Attempting to keep all of it inevitably creates storage issues even in the age of the multilayer DVD and the terabyte hard drive. A good archiving system performs a form of triage on the data that is generated based on the duration of usefulness for that data. In order for the huge amount of data generated by the information system to continue to be useful it has to be converted to a database format. A successful implementation of the critical care information system requires an examination of every aspect of the workflow of the critical care unit and how the system will impact (and improve) on it.