Hospitals

Using our datacollection tool

Medical Procedures

Which used EMPRSS as a data collection tool

Clinicians

Using EMPRSS


WWelcome to Electronic Medical Procedure Reporting Systems Inc. (Emprss) - a state of the art electronic data collection system and service team whose goal is to improve patient outcomes and generate health system efficiencies by providing real time, relevant quality metrics to clinicians.

Started as a spin off company from the University of Alberta, by Dr. Michael Kolber (Professor in Family Medicine at the University of Alberta) and Nicole Olivier (Clinical Study Coordinator at the University of Alberta) emprss uses customizable data collection tools to enable clinicians to capture, synthesize and receive reports pertaining to quality metrics on medical procedures.

The data collection tool is easily implemented into existing workflow.

Real Time

Practicing physicians and health care workers enter real time data into a secure database. Patients are not identifiable in the database. We then synthesize the data and provide user friendly and meaningful feedback.

Relevant

Emprss is relevant to all who perform medical procedures and is especially relevant to trainees and residency program directors for credentialing their graduates and programs.

Reports

Emprss report cards provide excellent information for the accreditation of your surgical or endoscopy suite. Findings are shared only with the participating proceduralist.

While we have data collection templates, our tool is customizable to meet end users specific needs. Report cards with synthesized results can be generated at regular intervals, which allow for self and program reflection on the volume and quality of procedures performed. Reports are easy to understand and quality benchmark comparisons are provided where applicable. Emprss data collection was easily implemented into existing work flow in a pilot study involving 11 Alberta sites and almost 2000 procedures. Our hope is that measuring quality metrics in procedural medicine with self-reflection and corresponding practice changes will result in improved patient outcomes and even system efficiencies.


What's in it for my Program

Local Team Based

Quality improvement endeavour

Customizable Metrics

Personal and program based quality metrics

Accreditation

Accreditation support

Global Rating Score

8 GRS items potentially captured using EMPRSS-Endo (including all 6 quality items)

Learners

Ability to track learner progress

Research

Potential research opportunities

Testimonials

Collecting the data at the time of endoscopy was easy and quick. The reconcillation of the pathology reports although time consuming, was educational. The report card was very useful as prior to this study I did not have any concrete numbers pertaining to my quality metrics in colonoscopy. The support from Nicole and Mike was outstanding. All in all, my electronic data collection was well worth the effort in providing accurate, real time data collection pertaining to colonoscopy quality metrics.
Dr. Leif Bredesen MB, BCH, BAO, DA
After participating in the AFPEE study, we are more knowledgeable on procedures, and pathology and the beginning of our endoscopy programs transformation.

The training and support from Mike and Nicole made the experience very pleasant. Once we got up and running it only took a couple of minutes to collect the data on the IPAD for each case. It was very user friendly and simple to implement into our program.
Dawn Knodel RN
The system was easy to access, the data collection is easy to use and data is collected step by step as the procedure progress. IT assistance was readily available by phone or email. Time required to detect and enter data seems less than expected.

As a nurse, I had a wonderful learning experience by doing the data collection and the pathology reconciliation because it provided me insight on adenoma detection and unexpected diagnosis.

Greita Low RN