Digital Hospital without charts, Gangseo Jeil Hospital

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Digital Hospital without charts, Gangseo Jeil Hospital

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Healthcare » Improving Communication with Patients
Location:
Korea
Digital Hospital without charts, Gangseo Jeil Hospital

Initially Digitized General Hospital without Charts, Gangseo Jeil Hospital

It is believed that the paperless digital hospital system will lay groundwork for the remote medical service that patients will be treated at home by introducing remote medical systems when home network system will be realized.

Gangseo Jeil hospital (www.bone119.net) is the first semi-general hospital with the tradition of 25 years. Because of the aging building, the hospital was determined to close down the old building and construct a new building in 2000. The hospital specialized in joints re-opened in 2003. The hospital introduced OCS (Order Communication System) and EMR (Electronic Medical Record System) to construct a digital hospital that have never been as a (semi) general hospital in Korea. The hospital adopted Wacom's product as the solution for charts input constituting the center of these electronic systems.

It cleared away charts from all medical offices and introduced the Cintiq interactive pen display solution that enabled to directly write down from a monitor. The hospital was enabled to treat its patients faster by computerizing all processes related to patients and automatizing order communication processes. Therefore, the hospital could reduce patients' waiting time and carry out reservation for medical service. The paperless digital hospital system through a computer network will be linked with image store and transfer system via the hospital business automation in the near future. It is believed that the digital hospital system will lay groundwork for the remote medical service that patients will be treated at home by introducing remote medical systems when home network system will be realized.

What is an interactive pen display?

The interactive pen display is an input device that can freely write and erase with an electronic pen on a tablet instead of a mouse and keyboard as if one writes down on a paper. Unlike a mouse, it revives pen pressure with gradation and can draw detailed free curves. Therefore you can draw in the same manner as actual drawings. The tablet solutions are various from a tablet that consists of a common pen and a tablet board, interactive pen display that can directly input on a screen to a tablet PC that is portable like a notebook and can directly input on its LCD. The tablet solutions are input devices that are widely utilized in education, business and entertainment markets such as movie as well as the medical field. The tablet that can readily input data is expected to be highlighted as a next generation input device if the Home Network is spread to common life.

The Cintiq tablet solution is a interactive pen display that is mainly used in the medical and industrial fields. The tablet equipped with high quality TFT-LCD (SXGA supported) enables to directly write or erase on the screen with pen and its pen electromagnetically induced enabled to be perceived faster as if you write with a pen on a paper. In addition, its pressure detection system enables to support gradation.

The tablet that specialized designers who design hospital, automobile or something like that mainly used will be widely utilized for education or business briefing as well as personal business if the home networking system is spread in our common lives.


Patient-oriented Specialized System Tablet

An orthopedic surgeon, Byeong-gu Jo is working in Gangseo Jeil hospital which is "paperless digital hospital". Give ear to what he is talking about.

Dr. Jo said, "I had never known about the interactive pen display until I began to work in Gangseo Jeil hospital one year ago." "However, if I open my private school, I'd like to introduce the tablet solution." he spoke highly of the interactive pen display solution.


(Left) Dr. Jo of the chief of orthopedic surgery
(Right) Simple pictures including treatment charts help him explain the treatment processes to patients.



Q1. What is convenient with Wacom's tablet solution?

After I began to work in this hospital, I had access to the tablet initially. Above all, it is fast and convenient because I can directly input on patient's medical history a PC screen instead of a paper chart. For the follow-up for a patient, I just may input patient's name to search the patient's chart. The data entered through the tablet is quickly transferred as an order to the radiation room via the network. The tablet solution is a patient-oriented professional system and enables to provide high quality medical service with advanced medical technology by shortening patient's waiting time.


Q2. How do you think the tablet will affect in the medical field?

Since I got accustomed to paper charts, I was actually reluctant to use the interactive pen display that I had to directly input on a screen. With curiosity but also anxiety, I begun to use but I became unexpectedly accustomed immediately. Especially, it is fascinating for me to freely input medical terms that is difficult to type with a keyboard as if I write down on a paper. In addition, even though I have to input to a computer, I can input with a pen by hand looking patient's face. Therefore, I think that it is suitable for the medical field that the communications with patients are important. In addition, the tablet solution is distinguished when it is used to draw or display an affected part. It is very helpful to explain the current status or the after shape after treatment of the affected part to the patient.


Q3. What do you think leaves you something to be desired for the tablet?

It is tantalizing that the tablet only supports some functions of the OCS program notwithstanding its convenience. Therefore, I hope that the applications supporting the tablet input are extended in various softwares related to the medical field. In addition, I am not satisfied with the resolution of 15-inch interactive pen display that is adopted in this hospital. I want that the tablet is upgraded into the system with bigger size and higher resolution to readily input charts and exactly catch affected parts.


Advanced medical technology is realized through the specialized and differentiated medical service. Digitization via the interactive pen display makes hospital business efficient and contributes the expansion of medical service. The digitization through Network is the system that satisfies the necessary and sufficient condition to provide faster medical service.

In a digital age fast developing, a shift in medical industry is inevitable too. Digital hospital without charts is one of the best examples.

Advanced medical technology is realized through the specialized and differentiated medical service. Digitization via the interactive pen display makes hospital business efficient and contributes the expansion of medical service. The digitization through Network is the system that satisfies the necessary and sufficient condition to provide faster medical service.

Gangseo Jeil hospital succeeded in computerizing all medical service system related to patients by introducing the interactive pen display solution. This system connected prescription transfer system under database-based Network environment, and so the transfer of doctor's prescription became automatized and faster. Outpatient's waiting time was shortened more than 30% and an occasion to introduce the follow-up control system for patients including after-care services were made ready for overall, these convenient treatment systems improved the hospital business.

The tablets provided to all of doctor's offices are contributing to raising the quality of communication between doctors and patients. The tablet placed on a desk in doctor's office enables to manage medical histories instead of paper charts and enhances patient's reliability.

If a doctor who can directly catch a patient's status in his office makes an order or draws an affected part through the tablet, it is transferred to the radiation room immediately. The patient can go to the radiation room and take a photo for the affected part. In addition, the tablet can carry out treatment, making prescription and receipt faster. This order transfer system via the network enables to provide high quality medical service to patients and maximize the efficiency of overall medical business.