The registration of the patients in the Major Incident Hospital runs via the Patient Barcode Registration System (PBRS). By a network of computers the organization knows about the number of patients, the location and the weight of care.
The UMC Utrecht reserved 300 patient numbers for the Major Incident Hospital in the Hospital Information System (ZIS). These numbers are translated in a bar code. As soon as the patient is admitted, this patient receives a wrist band with such a number. The patient also reveives a medical file, a so-called ZIBO-file (Hospital in Particular Circumstances) with the same number. At every location where the patient arrives this number, translated in a barcode, is scanned.Is is also possible to connect several data such as type of injury, performed radiological exemination. In the family relief ward the relatives is registrated in the system and later on as contact person joined to the concerned patient.
During patient discharge an automated patient discharge system is used. The physician is able to generate patint discharge letters quickly. The physician is able to view data from the ZIS, for example laboratory data and data of the PBRS, such as name, address, residence, type of the mass casulaty incident, diagnosis, etc.