Order Out of Chaos: Emergency Department Integration Software

For as long as there have been emergency departments (EDs), there has been a need to keep track of patients and their status. For most of that history, EDs have made due with racks of paper charts with a flag system, dry erase boards, chalkboards, or some combination. Although worn through overuse and often illegible, dry erase boards present a low threshold to entry, incur minimal capital expenditures, are virtually maintenance free, and are intuitively easy to operate.