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Utah Valley Regional Medical Center and American Fork Hospital are part of the Intermountain Health Care (Inc.) hospital system. Both hospitals have installed the HELP system in the last two years. The HELP system is a clinical hospital information system which integrates and manages patient data throughout the hospital. Modules exist within the HELP system for each clinical discipline. For example, the respiratory therapy module provides the respiratory therapist a means to chart care given to the patient as well as print reports on patients. Similarly, the pharmacy module allows for the scheduling and charting of medications. As we move towards a multi-disciplinary care team approach, we find that the modules within the HELP system do not lend themselves well to a multi-disciplinary approach to documenting care. In the pre-viously used traditional paper-based system, a multidisciplinary flow sheetwas usedby …