The Physician Portal: Referral, Results and Clinical Management at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

Edward A. Gardner, Director, IT Technology Services, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) at Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA. MD Portal enhances communications with referring physicians and greatly increases patient safety and satisfaction. After registration, physicians refer patients on-line and access LPCH clinical information for their patients including lab results, radiology results, transcriptions, census lists, and pharmacy information ……… anytime, anywhere, in real-time. Other capabilities include requests for consultations and the ability to track the status of the referrals from pending to scheduled to attended. Physicians may also view other information about LPCH such as a Physicians Directory, as well as register for continuing education courses (CME). There is currently a Meditech version in production with over 110 community physicians users, with a Cerner version scheduled for go-live September 10, 2005