CORDis EHR stands for Correspondence, Operating Records, Reports and Discharge Summary information system Electronic Health Record.

It is an electronic Clinical Documentation or Transcription System written with FileMaker Pro that has been developed by Dynamic Solutions for and with Barwon Health (The Geelong Hospital).

Barwon Health has over 40,000 inpatients each year. Each of these patients requires a Discharge Summary to be prepared for them and forwarded to their general practitioner (GP). In the past Discharge summaries were handwritten and then posted to GPs which resulted in the GP not receiving the Discharge Summary for days or even weeks after the actual discharge of the patient. Barwon Health wanted to improve this situation and contracted Dynamic Solutions to develop a system to do this CORDisEHR (CORDis) was the result.

CORDis produces electronic discharge summaries which are faxed to the patients GP with the result being a clear and legible Discharge Summary arriving at the GP's office within hours of the patient being discharged, in fact many are received by the GP before the patient has even left the hospital!

CORDis was firstly introduced into the department of surgery but within twelve months due to demand from other departments it was in use within most of the hospital.

Currently over 70% of the hospital's discharge summaries are completed in CORDis. The 30% that are still completed manually are done so due to logistical reasons such as lack of computers in some areas.

The success of CORDis with Discharge Summaries led to the expansion of it's functionality to include: Operation notes, out patient notes, surgical & trainee logs, sentinel events, various forms and PBS prescribing. All of these as well as clinical information are linked to the patient's episode of care enabling easy reference when completing discharge summaries.

In February 2002 Barwon Health/CORDis was the first hospital in Australia to implement Electronic PBS prescribing

CORDis continues to grow by increasing its capabilities, driven by the demand of it's users.