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Emergency

NextHealth Care

Included in Care Hospitals

An emergency department cannot stop for paperwork. NextHealth Care lets staff register an unconscious or unidentified patient instantly with a temporary identity and begin care, then link the record to the real identity once known, keeping the history together. Triage categories set the order of care, structured trauma and resuscitation records capture interventions in real time, a mass casualty mode supports sudden surges, and every key timing is measured automatically.

What it covers

  • Triage category assignment with time-to-triage tracking
  • Rapid registration for unidentified and unconscious patients
  • Trauma and resuscitation documentation
  • Door-to-doctor, door-to-decision timing as measured KPIs
  • Mass casualty mode
Why it is hard to do well

Emergency care cannot wait for an identity document

Emergency department software built for speed

An ambulance brings in an unconscious man with no identification. Within seconds he is registered as an unknown patient, triaged and on the resuscitation record. When his family arrives an hour later, his record is linked to his real identity and nothing documented in that first hour is lost.

Triage categories are visible on the department board, so every clinician works to the same priorities, and time to triage, door to doctor and door to decision are measured for every patient as live figures rather than end-of-month reports.

Trauma and resuscitation documentation is structured for speed, recording medicines, procedures and timings as they happen. When the decision is to admit, the patient passes straight to inpatient care and appears on the bed board, so the handover from the department is a click, not a phone call. Required fields are kept to what safe care needs, so documentation never holds up treatment.

How emergency department software works in NextHealth Care

An emergency department information system manages triage, treatment and decisions for patients who arrive without an appointment. In NextHealth Care, the emergency module shares one patient record with the rest of the hospital, so care continues into admission or follow-up without re-entry.

  1. Register. Known patients are found by search; unidentified patients are registered at once with a temporary identity.
  2. Triage. A triage category is assigned and the time to triage recorded.
  3. Treat. Assessment, trauma and resuscitation records, orders and prescriptions are documented as care happens.
  4. Decide. The patient is admitted, discharged or transferred, with door to decision time measured.
  5. Hand over. Admitted patients appear on the bed board; discharged patients leave with their follow-up arranged.

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Questions we get asked

Emergency is included in Care Hospitals.

Yes. Unidentified and unconscious patients are registered in seconds with a temporary identity, and the record is linked to their real identity once it is confirmed.

Yes. Time to triage, door to doctor and door to decision are measured for every patient and shown as live department figures.

Yes. Mass casualty mode supports rapid registration and tracking when many patients arrive at once.

When the decision is to admit, the patient passes to inpatient care and appears on the bed board waiting for a bed.

Yes. Trauma and resuscitation records are structured to capture interventions and timings as they happen, not after the event.

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