HIStalk Interviews Beth Raucher MD

-Beth Raucher, MD is executive vice president and chief medical officer of Lutheran HealthCare, Brooklyn, NY.

...My role in the electronic health record was the lead physician on the project. I helped make some of the design decisions and work flow decisions, things that would work best for the hospital. I had previous experience doing that in another job before I came to Lutheran four and half years ago.

Yours is the largest hospital I’ve heard of that has implemented Medsphere’s OpenVista. You’re a teaching hospital, too. What parts of the system are you live on and how has it gone?

The part that we are on live now is order entry. All the providers — the doctors, the nurse practitioners, the PAs, the CRNAs, and anyone that’s allowed to write an order — put the order electronically into the system. The nurses pick up the order and the pharmacies pick up the orders through the system. Orders also go to the laboratory, radiology, dietary, and other ancillary services.