FORT WOOD, MO – The General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital in Fort Wood, Mo., has deployed an enterprise-wide clinical documentation solution.

The Essentris electronic medical record, developed by San Diego-based Clinicomp, was rolled out at GLWACH to provide clinicians with up-to-date patient data at the bedside, said hospital officials.

“CliniComp’s processes from project management to training to launch were flawless, enabling us to install the Essentris EMR throughout our facility in just four months,” said Veronica Robinson, chief of the cinical systems branch at GLWACH. “The company has been and continues to be extremely responsive to our needs. We look forward to using the system to give clinicians access to the up-to-date patient data they need to make better treatment decisions, coordinate care and improve quality.”

The deployment of the Essentris EMR at GLWACH was part of a Department of Defense contract awarded to CliniComp to provide clinical documentation solutions to 36 military treatment facilities over the next two years. The Essentris system is being deployed at GLWACH as well as David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., and Naval Hospital Bremerton in Washington.

As part of the deployment, GLWACH is using Essentris' computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and global data repository (GDR), a patient encounter reporting tool, to help manage clinical workflows, said hospital officials.

“The enterprise-wide deployment demonstrates the effectiveness of our implementation methodology and our commitment to delivering outstanding service and support to clients,” said Alan Portela, CliniComp’s president.

GLWACH officials said physicians are looking to leverage the technology to streamline clinical workflows, simplify access to unified patient data and build a longitudinal patient health record.