Minutes - 20071113 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

responsible for carpeting. The contract expires in 2008. Commissioner Jacobs said that this is the County's most expensive lease. Commissioner Jacobs suggested that in the spring, the County Commissioners can take the new UNC Chancellor to visit some County facilities as was done previously. Jessica Lee made reference to providing services at both Carr Mill Mall and Whitted and said that they try not to compromise care, and they try to work as efficiently as possible under the circumstances. Commissioner Gordon said that the county has principles with respect to space needs and they include consolidating into fewer sites and also getting out of rental spaces and into facilities owned by the county. • Technology & Equipment Ms. Chris Harlan, Vice-Chair Christina Harlan said that she is a public health nurse by profession and she has watched technology over the years. She said that the Board of Health feels an ethical obligation to make sure that quality care is provided. Technology & Equipment Orange County Health Department November 13, 2007 The development of health care technology over the past 10 years has far outstripped the ability of Orange County Health Department to keep at a basic level of adequacy. This is true for all aspects of service delivery as well as data analysis in order to form good policy development. Clinical Technology • The NC Division of Public Health will be completing the customization of a new vendor purchased statewide software for all clinical and home visiting services. This software has an individual electronic health record for each patient. While not a requirement, maximizing the effectiveness for patients and providers will require mobile PC "tablets" or a workstation in each exam and interview room. • At its fullest and highest use it will require the ability to affix and read bar codes for services that would automatically be tagged to a patient record and then billed. • The logical expansion is the purchase of avendor-supported add-on for a true electronic medical record, facilitating the transfer of referral information for patients. • The standard for most dental offices, including the UNC School of Dentistry is the provision of digital dental x-rays that are available to the dentist chair side and become an easily integrated part of the patient's dental record. This would require software purchase and equipment for each operatory. Field Based Services Home visiting staffs are restricted from taking paper patient records into the field. Mobile technology would allow access to "last progress notes" and enable the staff member to update notes in field and begin the service coordination process more quickly. Linking to appointment vacancies could improve service provision. Software that enables Environmental Health Specialists (EHS) conducting institutional inspections in the Food and Lodging Program would allow the final "grade sheet" to be printed for the establishment. It would allow more timely uploading to the state and to the