Information system, patient record

Intended purpose

The Centricity Perinatal System is intended for automatic patient management. It does this by: 1. Providing the user the ability to create and use electronic forms for entering, viewing, and storing patient and facility related data (e.g. charts, forms, graphs, chalkboards, care plans, user reference manual) 2. Interfacing with other hospital information systems and medical devices for automatic data acquisition, viewing and storage with the electronic patient record 3. Providing visual notification of when acquired fetal monitor heart rate values exceed the user defined limits for high and low fetal heart rate and poor signal quality. 4. Providing Spectra Alerts capabilities for fetal monitoring (surveillance) 5. Providing automatic computations of physiologic indexes (e.g. nutrition). 6. Providing calculations from user defined formulas (i.e. index calculator). 7. Providing the ability to record, with the patient record, fluid input and output information that is defined by the user. 8. Providing the ability to export patient data to relational databases for research and Quality Assurance purposes. 9. Providing the ability to archive files to a secondary or tertiary storage medium (for example: CD-R or SAN). 10. Providing the ability to print (locally or remotely) patient records and CPN database definition (that is - item names). 11. Providing the ability to review fetal monitor data (OB-Link) remotely over the internet