NMH

NMH | 2024 172 Quality & Safety Services Apart from patient documentation, MN- CMS enables medication prescribing and administration, ordering and viewing laboratory investigations and electronic communication with general practitioners. It also interfaces with other specialist systems such as Fetal Cardiotochograms (Fetalink), Theatre (Periop Doc) and Anaesthetic records (SN Anesthesia), Ultrasound (Viewpoint), Colposcopy (Mediscan) and the Patient Management System (IPMS). The MN-CMS Department, along with Oracle Cerner Application Managed Services (AMS), supports the 24-hour availability and usage of the system and T he Maternal and Newborn Clinical Management System (MN-CMS) is the Electronic Health Record (EHR) in use in the National Maternity Hospital. It is a national EHR covering maternity, newborn and neonatology, gynaecology and colposcopy services thereby providing a paperless EHR for the whole Hospital. The ethos of MN- CMS is 'patient centred, clinically led' and the NMH MN-CMS team work closely with the HSE National MN-CMS Team, HSE Technology and Transformation Team and the other participating maternity hospitals to support, manage and upgrade the system. The Maternal and Newborn Clinical Management System Sive Cassidy, MN-CMS CMM3 with Sofia Danos, Student Midwife. ensures the most efficient use of the electronic chart so both the patient and healthcare providers get the maximum benefit from the system. Creating and maintaining user access as well as user training are essential functions of the Local Back Office (LBO) in NMH. MN-CMS training is provided in our state-of-the-art computer training facility. All new and returning users require training and in 2024 the team has trained 370 staff, including doctors, midwives, nurses, health and social care professionals, medical scientists, students, healthcare assistants, ICT and administration staff to use MN-CMS.

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