Utah's WebKIDS Software Saves Clinic Time

Intermountain Health Care (IHC) has recently implemented The Utah Statewide Immunization Information System's (USIIS) web based immunization tool (WebKIDS) in a pilot pediatric clinic. IHC did a time study to assess the effectiveness of this tool. During this evaluation IHC did a pre-implementation study where they tracked the staff's activities in the clinic with a stopwatch and logged the time necessary to complete the tasks for an immunization encounter. They then implemented WebKIDS in the pilot clinic. After a short period of training they repeated the same time study and logged the findings. These finding were very favorable to using WebKIDS, indicating that the use of WebKIDS not only was a preferred tool, but that it was a more effective tool in a clinical setting.

Here is a sample of the findings from the study:

Process	Pre-WebKIDS	Post-WebKIDS	Time Saved
Vaccine administration per patient	11:21	8:04	3:17
Determine patient's need for immunization	1:38	0:10	1:28
Create new Individual Immunization Record	10:02	1:29	8:33
Create new School Report	5:47	2:22	3:25
Look-up/edit history of contraindications/exemptions	3:33	1:01	2:32
Record reaction to immunization	1:46	0:49	0:57

Time Comparisons of Pre- and Post-WebKIDS Immunization Process and Sub-processes

IHC has submitted this study for publication in AMIA.

Reference:  Richards, D.J., Heermann Langford, L.K., Bowes, W.A., Repko, K., Lewis, T., Nay, J., Pare, N.L. (2002). Implementation of Utah Statewide Immunization Registry. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Source: Joe Nay, Utah SIIS

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