Ebola: Records Glitch Sent Patient Home

He told the triage nurse he had been in West Africa, where the epidemic is centered, but denied being around anyone who was ill. The nurse entered that information, but the hospital said it would not have automatically appeared when doctors accessed the system. "In our electronic health records, there are separate physician and nursing workflows," the hospital statement said. The travel history was in the nursing section, but "as designed, the travel history would not automatically appear in the physician's standard workflow," the statement said. The hospital said that's been fixed, and the system will now also have specific data about travel to the Ebola region in Africa. http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/GeneralInfectiousDisease/47930?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-10-04&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=ST&eun=g721819d0r&userid=721819&email=amydugan2%40gmail.com&mu_id=5883165&utm_term=Daily%20B