Surgical Management System Enhances Profitability and Compliance Efforts

A new surgery management system improves surgical workflow through automated charge-capture and enhanced deployment opportunities.

The Frontiers surgery management solution improves hospital workflow by capturing and charting clinical data throughout the entire perioperative-care process (presurgical screening, operating room, and recovery). The solution automates the clinical and business documentation requirements in the operating room, allowing clinicians and physicians to better focus on patient care. The entire charting process takes seconds to complete, while at the same time ensuring documentation-compliance with all quality, regulatory, and best practice standards of performance. By the time the record is transmitted to the hospital medical records and billing departments, the data has been clearly documented, ensuring compliance with regulations for itemized records. The system also introduces the ability to capture each surgery-related charge at the point of care (POC), as well as to transcribe physiological data at any existing Microsoft Windows-based charting station within the hospital. By using the electronic surgical record, hospital administrators have access to detailed data that can improve enterprise-wide processes. In addition, the solution offers significant enhancements that simplify materials, pharmacy, compliance, and billing case-review workflow. The Frontiers surgery management solution is a product of Merge Healthcare (Milwaukee, WI, USA)

"We are pleased to deliver these new solutions so quickly after Merge's acquisition of the Frontiers product line. We have rapidly integrated the division into our business while improving product delivery for our customers,” said Nancy Koenig, President of Merge Healthcare. "Frontiers' surgery management solution is a critical component of a patient's electronic medical record. Product enhancements that improve system deployment, interoperability and adoption are essential to the patient quality initiatives underlying the national healthcare agenda.”

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