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ADVANCING SUPERIOR HEALTH CARE
BEACON is BayCare's electronic medical record

Welcome to BayCare's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Web site, designed to provide physicians with a one-stop resource for information on this massive clinical transformation currently underway throughout our health system. An EMR is a secure, digital records center that will replace our current, paper-based medical files and provide physicians and nursing staff with real-time, electronic access to all aspects of patient information.

Log in to BayCare's Physicians' Portal at http://dr.baycare.org.

Phase II's required training for physicians.

BEACON Phase II

BEACON is the name of BayCare's system-wide EMR project. BayCare currently is implementing Phase II of BEACON. View slideshow of BEACON's new tools.

In this phase, all orders, medication administration, and clinical and ancillary documentation will be processed through BEACON. Entering patient information on the computer will be the only way to perform many of the daily functions that nurses currently document on paper. Physicians also will use the BEACON messaging Inbox to sign all verbal and telephone orders.

Morton Plant North Bay will be the first hospital in BayCare to advance to BEACON's Phase II functionality on Oct. 14, followed by St. Joseph's Hospital-North in February.

Click here for more on Phase II.

 LATEST NEWS

  New Rounds Report View on BEACON

Starting Aug. 17, Physicians now have access to a new online report that provides a centralized view of important patient information, such as demographics, recent laboratory results, medications, relevant clinical notes and orders. All in one screen.

BayCare designed the new report after receiving feedback from physicians about the need to decrease the amount of "mouse clicks" to view the information they needed. The new report is known as Physician Rounds.

Physicians can access this new report by logging in to BEACON, selecting a patient's name and clicking on the Physician Rounds tab on the screen. Additional clinical information will be available in this summary view as each facility goes live with BEACON's Phase II. 

   Outpatient Imaging Results Now Available

BEACON now features radiology results from the following BayCare outpatient imaging centers:

  • Bardmoor Imaging Center
  • MEDSpecialists Imaging Center
  • Trinity Imaging Center
  • St. Anthony's/Gulfcoast Cancer Institute PET CT
  • St. Anthony's Imaging Center - Carillon
  • St. Anthony's Imaging Center - Tyrone
  • St. Joseph's Imaging Center - Carrollwood
  • St. Joseph's Imaging Center - MLK
  • St. Joseph's Imaging Center - Van Dyke
  • St. Joseph's Imaging Center - Westchase

Physicians can access outpatient imaging results the same way as their inpatient results on BEACON by going to the RAD tab in PowerChart, looking up the patient's name and selecting the appropriate outpatient encounter. Historical information for outpatient imaging results is available starting March 12.

  "Smooth Roaming" Now Available

With "Smooth Roaming," physicians can float from one workstation to another with greater efficiency because their BEACON session will follow them to their next BayCare workstation, making logins quicker at subsequent workstations. To use smooth roaming, use Alt-Q when you leave your initial workstation, but do not log out of BEACON. At the next BayCare workstation, enter your credentials at the Imprivata login screen to re-establish your previous session.

Physicians also will be able to print their information to the appropriate printer based on their new location. Please note: PowerChart application location will not roam, only the printer will roam.


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