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Reporting

The common events register forms the backbone of the patient record in Mericle. It supports summary reporting across all event types. Accordingly, for example, the existence of a given document can be reported on as well as the actual document itself. Statistical counting and analyses are supported by event specific registers which hold data for operational and performance reporting, such as monthly admissions by diagnosis.

Rapid and Concise Analyses

All built in reports come with powerful content selection tools which carry out the querying and collating automatically. For example, a performance analysis of operations deploys the staff framework model to offer options at hospital, specialist in charge or operator level. At the patient end, comprehensive episodic histories can be printed and their content specified with a single button click.

Mericle makes available all the raw data tables for business data in a consistent and user friendly tool. Query support is independent of report generation, allowing the raw data to be quickly and flexibly audited.

Printed and electronic output from Mericle falls into five distinct categories:

• Documents (Correspondence, Discharge, Procedure Reports etc.)
• Operational Reporting (Patient record, treatment histories, episodic event reports)
• Performance Reporting (Admission, Consultation and Procedure statistics)
• Analytical Reporting (clinical data sets)
• User-defined raw data based reporting

Consistent with Mericle’s tiered record keeping approach, more highly developed reporting facilities are available for handling detailed clinical data sets. These tools are independent of specialty and are used for compiling statistical analyses from pre-configured clinical data sets or ‘classes’. They are particularly targeted at supporting clinical audits, where a more formal process of data definition, capture and reporting is required. They can also, however, be applied to incidental data capture such as clinical notes.