New health record system coming to Watkins this summer

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Watkins Memorial Health Center will install a new electronic health record system beginning July 9.

The record system, Point and Click Solutions, will allow Watkins to have better access to student health records.

Patty Quinlan, nurse supervisor, said Watkins had been trying to purchase an electronic record keeping system for years.

“It’s where medicine, as a country is moving toward,” Quinlan said.

She said the goal of Watkins was to provide better health services to students by being more accessible and portable for staff and students. Quinlan said Watkins wanted to put the Point and Click feature on students’ individual KU portals, which would allow them access to their records. In order to do that, Watkins would need on-campus resources to coordinate the program, Quinlan said.

The program would include health features such as influenza clinics and lifestyle questionnaires.

“We’re hoping it will increase student participation in health,” Quinlan said.

Quinlan said the self-assessments would include questions detailing social history of chemicals, alcohol, exercise, stress and dietary concerns.

Myra Strother, staff physician, said students would take the lifestyle questionnaire and staff would suggest whether students should go into Watkins for a visit.

Quinlan said the questions would generate helpful information, but doctors and nurses would also manually send messages to students.

Jason McCandless, Lawrence junior, said he would definitely use the feature.

“I think the program would help students realize they need to look into exercising more often,” McCandless said.

— Edited by Jesse Temple

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