Does anyone here use an electronic "Birth Book" at their hospital?

[StarrySkies]

I am trying to move my hospital away from the big paper Birth Book to log births. I do the statistics for our OBT and it seems that both the triage book and the Birth Book in LAD can be moved to an online format as long as HIPPAA is not violated and all of the information is secured. Am I crazy here? Writing everything down on paper seems so archaic and prone to error.

Does anyone have an electronic program at their hospital or even just use Excel for this? We use OBTracevue for our central monitoring, but it doesn't have a Birth Book feature where you can just print out all of your births for the month with all of the pertinent information.

[ducknurse]

We do an Excel spreadsheet, but it gets transcribed from a Birth Log book. I use the spreadsheet formulas to collect monthly, quarterly, and yearly data in conjunction with Quality Mgmt. The girls just cannot seem to get away from the book, but they know it must in the computer even it is double charting?!?!

[StarrySkies]

I have been looking at the excel worksheet instead of the book, but I am having a hard time figuring out how to protect the information that is entered from being changed and still allow new information to be entered on the next line. How do you manage that or does only one person input information vs a variety of secretaries?

Of course the birth book is double charting- everything is already in our central monitoring program (OB Tracevue) and we still write it all down!

[ducknurse]

No, all our secretaries have access to it. But they do have to sign who got the data and entered it, so we have some accountability for accuracy. I am the only one who runs reports and submits those.