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The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Digestive Disease Center (DCC) brings together diverse specialties involved in evaluating and treating digestive disease. Internationally recognized surgeons, gastroenterologists, hepatologists and others provide the latest advances in the field. This multi-disciplinary approach to the treatment of digestive disease provides a level of care that has led to the DDC being named one of the top 25 centers in America in the treatment and study of digestive disease by U.S. News and World Report.
Activities planned for the coming year will be to determine the feasibility of creating an electronic medical record for hospital use by individual departments. This group in the DCC will investigate this by modifying the existing Computerized Patient medical Record System (CPRS) developed by the Department of Veteran's Affairs (DVA). Diverse information management environments are encountered in medical institutions, even ones that are centrally managed. The focus of this research will be to study the integration of the existing CPRS system into several other independent information systems within the MUSC. Also, the project will study how a multi-disciplinary department, or specialty treatment center, will benefit from the use of such a system.
This project is a proof of the concept that CPRS can be adapted to the MUSC teaching environment. Given a favorable outcome for this project, the findings will be used to support an application for a multi-year grant. The use of Caché is a fundamental requirement for evaluating the CPRS system.
Medical University of South Carolina Caché Campus contact:
Harold A. Mackey
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