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ADVANCING SUPERIOR HEALTH CARE
 Welcome to BayCare's BEACON Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Web site. We designed these pages 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.
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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 was the first hospital in BayCare to advance to BEACON's Phase II functionality in October 2009. St. Joseph's Hospital-North was the next facility to activate with Phase II in February, followed by South Florida Baptist in May. St. Joseph's, St. Joseph's Children's and St. Joseph's Women's hospitals are scheduled to go-live with Phase II on Aug. 17.
Click here for more on Phase II.
LATEST NEWS
Changes to Progress Notes
Based on physician feedback, we have made the following changes to the Rounds Report and Progress Notes for all BayCare hospitals. Please know that we value your suggestions, and whenever possible, we try to put your input to action.
Here are the changes:
1) Expanded the Progress Notes timeframe definition. Also, the top heading now reflects the start times of various sections.
2) In Phase II, 12 hours of vital signs will autopopulate in the Vitals section.
3) Set I/O time range to 24 hours (Phase II only).
4) Modified the Micro Results to an easier-to-read format. It now will always print the full text of the most recent result. Also, the time of order is now displayed next to the test, and the result date/time is displayed after the result.
5) Removed 2-report limitation for radiology results, which now display since midnight.
6) Removed page numbers.
 Patient/Head-in-Bed List
- Now available in BEACON
- Accurately matches the Invision patient list
- Shows all of your assigned patients who are admitted to a bed at the hospital (known as the "Head in a Bed Provider Group List" or "Head in a Bed Relationship List"
- Includes Length of State (LOS) information
To help you create these lists on your BEACON account, ask one of the physician support staff rounding the floors or available at the physician lounge. Job aids also will be available in the lounge with step-by-step instructions.
Discharge Patient List
- Now available in BEACON
- Can be filtered by patient status and by hospital
To help you create these lists on your BEACON account, ask one of the physician support staff rounding the floors or available at the physician lounge. Job aids also will be available in the lounge with step-by-step instructions.
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.
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