{"id":37418,"date":"2018-05-31T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T13:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=37418"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:15:43","slug":"new-follow-me-computing-system-lets-doctors-spend-more-quality-time-with-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/healthy-tomorrows\/new-follow-me-computing-system-lets-doctors-spend-more-quality-time-with-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018follow-me computing\u2019 system lets doctors spend more quality time with patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medical oncologist Dr. Neil Reaume (right) is now able to easily show patients, such as John Richichi, the results of their medical imaging tests right in the exam room, leading to better discussions during appointments.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Neil Reaume walked into the exam room, greeted patient John Richichi, and tapped his ID badge against a small black box near the computer screen. Up popped the lung CAT scan results that he was just reviewing on the core clinic computer before coming into the clinic room to see the patient.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour scan shows this spot, which might be pneumonia,\u201d said Dr. Reaume, a medical oncologist.<\/p>\n

Thanks to this innovative new \u2018follow-me computing\u2019 system, doctors in The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s Cancer Centre can spend more quality time with patients during their visits and can easily show and discuss medical imaging test results, bloodwork results, and their complete medical history right in the clinic room. Paper charts are no longer required to view recent results.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s neat,\u201d said Richichi, who has been a Cancer Centre patient since 2009 when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer, which has since spread to his brain and lungs. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to see visual pictures of what I have inside of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the new system was installed, each time doctors moved from one computer to another, they had to log in to multiple systems, which ate up the valuable patient appointment time. With nearly 100,000 visits a year, oncologists don\u2019t have time to log into computers in each exam room and then log into vOacis, WebPacs, Mosaiq, Opis and other clinical computer systems they need.<\/p>\n

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Doctors review patient charts and test results on a computer in the core area of the clinic before seeing the patient. When Dr. Neil Reaume walks into the clinic room with the patient, he taps his badge against a small black box and up pops whatever he was just viewing on the core computer. \u201cI was a hero when my patient asked about test results and, boom, I tapped in and there they were,\u201d said Dr. Reaume.  <\/em><\/p>\n

After reviewing the patient\u2019s symptoms, Dr. Reaume quickly opened the bloodwork results from that morning (showing no signs of infection) and checked to see if Richichi had seen a respirologist at the hospital. Before this new system, Dr. Reaume would have had to leave the clinic room to get that information.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re more likely to show test results to patients now because it\u2019s so much easier. A picture is worth a thousand words,\u201d said Dr. Reaume.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstant access to the most up-to-date patient information isn\u2019t just a \u2018nice to have\u2019 for our health-care providers,\u201d said Paula Doering, Vice-President of the Regional Cancer Program. \u201cWe need it to achieve our vision of providing the world-class, high-quality, timely care we would want for our own loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other staff members are also seeing the benefits of the new system:<\/p>\n

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  • \u201cHaving the bone scan images easily available in the exam room made deciding what needed to be treated easier for both myself and the patient,\u201d said Dr. Robert MacRae.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cI can order prescriptions while in the room with the patient discussing their symptoms,\u201d said Dr. Michael Vickers.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cHaving this technology in the exam rooms allows nurses to document vital signs, assessments, and interventions in real time,\u201d said Clinical Manager Kate Duke. \u201cOur nurses are excited to be part of leading the technology change in health care.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    \"MedicalThe technology is called Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with Single-Sign-On (SSO) and has been around in the industry for some time. The system is a taste of what\u2019s to come when The Ottawa Hospital launches the Epic digital health system in June 2019.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThe Cancer Centre had an urgent need to access patient records in the exam room, so we became an early adopter,\u201d said Dr. Michael Fung-Kee-Fung, who is leading Cancer Transformation. \u201cTransformation is driven by enabling people, processes, and technology. So, it was natural for us to get involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cIt also eliminates the need for portable devices like iPads, which are hard to keep clean in exam rooms, often don\u2019t have keyboards and may not have reliable wireless connections,\u201d said Bill Davies, Quality Process Engineer, who has been managing the change. \u201cA VDI computer terminal can now be used by anyone with a hospital ID badge. They just tap and whatever they were working on elsewhere, displays where they are now, hence the nickname \u2018follow-me computing\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Dr. Neil Reaume walked into the exam room, greeted patient John Richichi, tapped his ID badge against a small black box near the computer screen and up popped the latest CAT scan. Thanks to this innovative new \u2018follow-me computing\u2019 system, doctors in The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s Cancer Centre can spend more quality time with patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":37419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[67,381,121],"class_list":["post-37418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-tomorrows","tag-innovation","tag-patient-experience","tag-quality"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}