Healthcare IT News - January 2008 - (Page 42) 42 Healthcare It News ■ January 2008 produCt spotlIGHt www.HealthcareITNews.com p r o d u C t s p ot l IG H t Surgical information systems The SIS market evolves more information at HealthcareItnews.com reCent news ➔ LiveData awarded grant ➔ Mass. General expands ORDashboard system ➔ Handling OR information ➔ PR Newswire story on Allscripts ➔ Community Health Systems overhauls technology. I By Patty Enrado, Contributing Editor N THE PAST, surgical management systems have been used for scheduling, materials management and set-up, and preference cards. The market has evolved to surgical management, said Jason Hess, director of research in clinical ancillary for KLAS. KLAS’ Surgery Management report, released in September 2007, reveals that clinical documentation modules, particularly nurse documentation for pre-, interand post-operations, are being widely used. While surgeon and anesthesia documentation are still slow on the uptake, that should change as applications evolve – becoming more robust – and match their process with clinician workflow. Vendors are also working to integrate the applications with other financial and clinical systems. resourCe Central ➔ HIMSS Analytics: The Essentials of the U.S. Hospital IT Market – 2007 ➔ HIMSS Analytics: Ancillary/Clinical Department Systems: SelfDeveloped vs. Vendor-Provided Systems A nurse uses McKesson’s Horizon Surgical Manager application to take a look at an x-ray of a patient’s hip. produCt sHowCase Cerner Corp. Cerner Millenium SurgiNet Surgery and Anesthesia Information System Provides perioperative teams with the tools to run a safe, efficient operating room and allows perioperative teams to deliver surgical and anesthesia care on a unified architecture. Allows data capture of key metrics to help improve clinical, operational and financial outcomes. Contact: Sales, 816.201.0054 extensive scheduling rules and conflictchecking functionality help improve surgeon productivity, room utilization and resource management while giving you better access to comprehensive patient information in the operating room. Contact: 608.271.9000, info@epicsystems. com Contact: 800.477.1357, www.lawson.com/ healthcare mCKesson provIder teCHnoloGIes Horizon Surgical Manager Features: Integrates surgical scheduling, perioperative charting, medication administration and anesthesia documentation with core clinical and business data, giving caregivers instant access to detailed, accurate information throughout the patient experience, helping them foster patient safety, promote financial health, and measure and analyze operating room performance. Contact: Trish Crescitelli, 413.587.6541, trish. crescitelli@mckesson.com tHree trends to watCH Jason Hess, director of research in clinical ancillary for KLAS, highlighted three positive trends in the market: 1. ImplementatIons: With anesthesia documentation being done, vendors report that the number of anesthesia modules at customer sites is increasing. 2. adaptabIlIty: The market is doing better at getting physicians to enter orders and data into the surgical information system. 3. approval: Customer satisfaction with vendor performance is going up, thanks to more robust offerings and better integration among partners. Ge HealtHCare Centricity Clinical Information System An enterprise-wide system that enables a comprehensive and integrated care delivery process. Healthcare providers can optimize workflow in each clinical care area and, via Centricity’s common architecture, disseminate information seamlessly throughout the enterprise to support a longitudinal electronic medical record on each patient. eClIpsys CorporatIon Sunrise Surgery Sunrise Surgery, powered by Surgical Information Systems (SIS), integrates the Surgery department with the rest of the healthcare organization. Providing advanced clinical support and documentation for pre-, intra- and postoperative surgical workflows, Sunrise Surgery helps prevent adverse medical events during mission-critical surgical processes. Contact: 404.847.5000, info@eclipsys.com medIware InformatIon systems pICIs, InC. CareSuite total perioperative information system Features: Helps hospitals efficiently manage the clinical, administrative and financial functions of the surgical care environment. Through a single database, the integrated system documents the entire surgical episode, sPotlIght see page 43 lawson Surgical Instrument Management Helps ensure the correct instruments and trays are available when they are needed through simplifying tray assembly and instrument tracking. SIM helps improve service to clinicians and patients, increases staff performance, and reduces instrument costs and the chance of surgery delays. epIC systems Corp. OpTime Operating Room Management System Facilitates activities in any number of hospital operating rooms and ambulatory surgical centers. Workflow efficiencies, adoption of advanced functionality Percent use by module based on provider interview by KLAS Enteprises. Resource scheduling Nurse documentation Materials/inventory management Surgeon’s operating notes Anesthesia documentation 92% 84% 53% 8% 5% SOURCE: SURgERy ManagEMEnt REpORt, SEptEMbER 2007, KLaS EntERpRiSES “We have relied on RES-Q perioperative Resource Management software since 1997 to establish surgery schedules that preclude staffing and equipment conflicts, ensure clinically appropriate staffing, save time and boost productivity. Over the past decade, the software has been dependable, and RES-Q’s support has been outstanding. We are now taking advantage of advanced features for perioperative charting and inventory control in order to capture the exact information required to document patient activity, automate the calculation of case costs and revenues, and improve supply use monitoring and inventory levels.” Katherine Carr, RN, director of surgical services, Whidbey General Hospital “We selected picis to enable our vision of end-to-end perioperative automation and workflow. as one of the fastest growing strategic service lines in our business plan, we needed a system with the potential to optimize staff efficiency and process throughput, while maintaining high quality surgical services for our patients. Having one vendor with tight product integration for the ED, OR and paCU makes good business sense and will allow us to better manage the it environment while meeting the needs of the clinician users in these areas. Our success to date with these products has met our high expectations.” Mike Rozmus, CIO, Rockingham Memorial Hospital USER REVIEWS http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8446 http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.lawson.com/
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