Software Management Solutions Boost Hospital Efficiency

Integrated surgical, anesthesia, recovery room, and emergency department (ED) software solutions offer high-acuity care automation, promoting patient safety and enhancing hospital efficiency.

The Picis CareSuite family of high-acuity solutions includes, among others, the Picis ED PulseCheck, a comprehensive emergency department information system (EDIS) that allows control of virtually every aspect of the ED, including helping caregivers promote safer care delivery and decrease the risk of litigation by reminding them to document important items that ensure proper care, particularly for high-risk patients. Examples include reminders for reevaluation and vital sign range checks (when discharging a patient with abnormal vital signs) and reminders for open orders when discharging or admitting patients.

The Picis operating room (OR) Manager is a comprehensive OR documentation management system that automates patient data and caregiver workflow throughout the surgical process, including enterprise-wide patient and surgical team scheduling and tracking, preference card maintenance, nursing documentation, supply chain management, cost tracking and management, and much more.

The Picis SmarTrack is an interactive tool that speeds and simplifies the tracking of surgical patients through the perioperative process, from the patient's arrival in the perioperative suite through discharge. It tracks the status and locations of patients and resources, and compares their progress to user-defined care paths and critical checkpoints. The proactive system notifies staff when a patient is not moving predictably through the perioperative process.

The Picis Anesthesia Manager helps clinicians manage large volumes of data in the OR by assembling critical data for a complete overview of the patient's status. By automating the intraoperative and postoperative recovery anesthesia documentation, the Anesthesia Manager provides a more complete, accurate, and legible record that enhances accountability and saves both time and money.

The Picis Perioperative Dashboard helps increase OR efficiency by allowing real-time queries resulting in cross-facility visual indicators, covering key aspects of perioperative efficiency. This includes delays and turnaround time analysis, as well as quality aspects such as surgical care initiative compliance, concurrency, and patient satisfaction. Nursing staff can use this information to positively impact the day's schedule, and nursing directors can view incomplete documentation and billing completeness; surgeons can check on how a delay will impact their case start, and anesthesia care providers can check that concurrencies are appropriate and case times do not overlap.

"Within six months of implementing PulseCheck in the emergency department, we decreased patient wait time by an hour and captured $1.5 million in additional charges - paying for the system,” said Dino Rumoro, D.O. of Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, IL, USA). "We can pinpoint where patients are spending their time and improve our processes and patient throughput. Our staff has the option of transferring patients to various areas of the emergency department based on the patient's level of acuity, therefore averting long delays and maximizing staff productivity.”

The Picis CareSuite family of products, which also include a Critical Care Manager, the Extelligence OR and Anesthesia Managers, and other modules, are a product of Picis (Wakefield, MA, USA).

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