Workflow IT System Enhances Care Delivery

As the need to improve healthcare quality while reducing costs through the adoption of information technology (IT) system remains vital to the healthcare industry, a next-generation health information system is providing tangible clinical and financial outcomes at healthcare institutions.

Siemens Medical Solutions (Erlangen, Germany) recently presented the Soarian IT system's major feature as its workflow engine that facilitates and tracks technology-driven "workflows” created to help users increase efficiency, improve patient safety, and achieve desired clinical and financial outcomes, while supporting key quality and regulatory initiatives.

Through Soarian, early identification of patients with infections that require isolation and fast implementation of a precautions/isolation protocol has proven to prevent additional patient and staff exposure, decrease inappropriate patient bed assignment, and improve detection of negative screens to expedite removal of a patient from a high-cost isolation bed.

Other live workflows within the Siemens Soarian customer base include bed management, admission assessments, 23-hour observation, patient factors, intravenous (IV) restart, nothing by mouth (NPO), and more. These workflows highlight the need for increased quality and efficiency that an advanced healthcare IT system such as this one can deliver.

This IT system integrates clinical, financial, diagnostic, and administrative processes to support patient-centered care. The system is distinguished by three innovative characteristics: it manages processes and best practices across the enterprise through workflow management tools; increased ease of use and faster training is enabled via a smart user interface; and an integrated decision support tool helps to manage and measure the events and activities of the organization through embedded analytics. Additionally, by bringing together images and data from a variety of medical modalities in one location, Soarian helps facilitate more informed decision-making--leading to improved care delivery, increased staff satisfaction, and more efficient business practices.



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