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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WWW.KANSAN.COM News WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2008
WATKINS HEALTH CENTER
New health record system coming to center this summer
BY BRIEUN SCOTT bscott@kansan.com
Watkins Memorial Health Center will install a new electronic health record system beginning July 9.
The record system, Point and Click Solutions, will allow Watkins to have better access to student health records.
Patty Quinlan, nurse supervisor, said Watkins had been trying to purchase an electronic record keeping system for years.
"It's where medicine, as a country, is moving toward," Quinlan said.
She said the goal of Watkins was to provide better health services to
students by being more accessible and portable for staff and students. Quinlan said Watkins wanted to put the Point and Click feature on students' individual KU portals, which would allow them access to their records. In order to do that, Watkins would need on-campus resources to coordinate the program, Quinlan said.
The program would include health features such as influenza clinics and lifestyle questionnaires.
"We're hoping it will increase student participation in health," Quinlan said.
Quinlan said the self-assessments would include questions detailing social history of chemicals, alcohol.
exercise, stress and dietary concerns.
Myra Strother, staff physician, said students would take the lifestyle questionnaire and staff would suggest whether students should go into Watkins for a visit.
Quinlan said the questions would generate helpful information, but doctors and nurses would also manually send messages to students.
Jason McCandless, Lawrence junior, said he would definitely use the feature.
"I think the program would help students realize they need to look into exercising more often," McCandless said.
Edited by Jesse Temple
GREEK LIFE
Delta Tau Delta gains house back
BY MIKE NOLAN
mnolan@kansan.com
This fall, members of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, 1111 W. 11th St., will look to take their brotherhood to a new level when they re-inhabit their house after a seven-year absence.
Delta Tau Delta owned the house from 1914 to 2001 and it was the third oldest fraternity at the University. Membership declined toward the end of the 1990s and by 2001, the fraternity did not have enough members or enough money to maintain operation.
the colonization process.
Five years later the pledge class of 2006, or the Alpha class, began
A colony is a fraternity in waiting. Members organized chapter meetings and established principles they wanted to build on.
Shawn Jung, Lansing junior and Delta Tau Delta public relations director, said the fraternity wanted to establish a strong academic community.
"College is about getting an education," Jung said. "We want Delta to be a place boys turn into men and gain real life skills."
The Delta Tau Delta house will officially open Aug.1, and the members said they expected to have about 55 members living in the house.
Edited by Mandy Earles