TrakCare Solution Guide
Overview
InterSystems TrakCare™ software is a Web-based, patient-centric healthcare information system used by leading healthcare organisations around the world. It is comprised of a comprehensive portfolio of application modules, including patient administration, clinicals, departmental, and community solutions. Any of these modules may be quickly implemented to solve immediate, pressing problems, or modules can be adopted as an integrated portfolio to serve more expansive needs.
At the heart of TrakCare sits the electronic Patient Record (EPR), which captures the continuum of clinical and administrative information about a patient, and the Patient Master Index (PMI). The PMI can be run as a standalone product within a hospital or may be part of a larger state or national system.
All TrakCare modules include the FastTrak to EPR architecture, technology, and methodologies, so rich EPR benefits are available from the very first TrakCare module implemented.
What sets TrakCare apart from other hospital information systems (HIS) is its unique design, advanced underlying technologies, and “FastTrak to EPR” architecture and methodologies. This combination ensures that TrakCare offers unparalleled flexibility and speed-to-results, with rich EPR benefits available from the very first TrakCare module implemented. TrakCare can effortlessly encompass EPR information from a variety of systems, including legacy systems and non-TrakCare systems.
TrakCare is built on InterSystems Ensemble®, an innovative rapid integration platform. InterSystems Ensemble® shares core technology with InterSystems Caché®, which is the leading database for clinical applications worldwide. Because TrakCare is uniquely built on a powerful integration platform rather than on a traditional rigid database and the fixed technologies of the past, TrakCare modules easily and seamlessly connect to a broad array of patient information from across departments, institutions, regions, nations, and the world.
From its inception, TrakCare was built to meet the needs of the international marketplace. The TrakCare system provides multi-language support, and customers can readily customise layouts to support local language text. Unlike many hospital information systems that have evolved to become Web-enabled, TrakCare was designed from the ground up as a Web-based solution that allows ubiquitous and secure access to patient information, regardless of the healthcare professional’s location. Since it is Web-based, TrakCare also offers the hardware cost-benefits of a thin client while minimising the IT and administrative overhead costs associated with software upgrades in the traditional client/server environment.
The rigidity of most HIS systems requires healthcare professionals to either adapt processes to mirror their system, or face a lengthy and costly custom implementation project. Laborious specifications detailing phases notoriously delay HIS implementations. If everything is not defined perfectly, or when specifications change, these systems are frustratingly difficult to modify. At InterSystems, we understand your desire for a hospital information system that works the way you do.
With TrakCare, customers can be up and running quickly, armed with powerful tools to readily tailor the solution as and when they choose – a future-proof solution that can rapidly address changes in technology, administration, and healthcare policies without expensive, lengthy recoding.
Our Workflow Manager tool facilitates business process flow in an automatic way. It establishes a desired sequence for tasks to be performed depending upon conditions and functions required by the user as well as secondary processes such as print jobs, alerts, and messages.
At InterSystems, we understand your desire for a hospital information system that works the way you do.
The built-in Layout Editor allows users to configure all screens to suit not only the function being performed, but also the unique needs of individuals and groups performing those functions. Menus, driven by workflows, can be defined for an individual user or for groups of users. Every module includes a variety of easy-to-identify icons and colours to highlight patient conditions. All icons are interactive and selectable, and provide an overview of the patient at a glance as well as the ability to drill down into the data.
TrakCare is Synonymous with Interoperability
With TrakCare’s FastTrak to EPR you can quickly achieve the benefits of a patient-centric EPR by integrating current applications with TrakCare and then implementing new functionality or replacing existing functionality over time. Installation of discrete modules streamlines the implementation period. Since TrakCare modules are preconfigured with automated installation routines and supporting installation/ setup and training documentation, these modules can be deployed in achievable stages. TrakCare’s FastTrak to EPR is a proven path to exceptionally fast, successful project outcomes. Perhaps the best example of fast results was when TrakCare was chosen to run the Olympic Polyclinic at the 2004 Athens Games. In just nine days, the team installed TrakCare, transferred demographic and medical data on thousands of athletes to its database, trained volunteer personnel, and went live on schedule.
FastTrak to EPR
TrakCare Solution Guide
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