Knowledge Center

A 54-year old female presents with acute upper left quadrant abdominal pain, radiating to her back and is worse immediately after eating. Initial physical examination reveals the patient has a fever, low blood pressure, rapid heart and has been nauseated for 12 hours. The patient has been on a tapering dose of prednisone over the last two weeks for treatment of asthma.

What kind of clinical decision support can you offer the doctor who will perform CPOE for this patient? In the past, perhaps a link to a website with reference materials, but physicians have told us that trying to do research during CPOE is too time-consuming to be of any real use. Now we spend lots of time building standard order sets that are certainly a big step above online reference materials.

But wouldn’t it be nice to present a doctor with an evidence-based order set that’s generated real-time and takes into account a patient’s actual circumstances? For example, an order set that considers the patient’s:

• Existing problems and diagnoses
• Current medications
• Recent clinical results
• Demographics, such as age and gender

If you’re an Old Faithful MAGIC User, you may be happy to hear that Iatric Systems’ latest development, Clinical Decision Support Services (CDSS), does just that. It presents your physician with an order set that takes into consideration the patient’s actual problems, diagnoses, medications, clinical results and demographics. CDSS is a new feature of OrderEase, a CPOE solution that was designed by physicians to fit their workflow. Together, OrderEase and CDSS help physicians practice evidence-based medicine and provide quality care to patients in less time.

So, clinical decision support during CPOE isn’t just a dream; with OrderEase and CDSS, it’s a reality today. OrderEase with CDSS is currently available only to Old Faithful MAGIC Users. If you would like to learn more about CPOE with evidence-based clinical decision support or see OrderEase with CDSS in action, please join us via webcast demonstration at 2:00pm Eastern on Thursday 5/3, Thursday 5/10 or Tuesday 5/15/2012.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced that the organization is removing language establishing a uniform, 30-minute window before or after the scheduled time for all scheduled medication administration. According to the official CMS statement, the regulatory body has recognized that it is no longer the standard of practice in the current hospital environment to follow a “30-minute rule” for this.

Read more at HCPro.com.

Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS) will share some of their lessons learned regarding technology and support.

Cloud Computing
We have all heard this term many times recently but what does it mean for healthcare?

The Security Landscape in Healthcare
Pulling the Plug – How HIPAA protected your patients but forgot to protect your patients’ lives.

Improving Clinician Mobility and Productivity
This session will provide information about leveraging technology to deliver data anywhere, anytime, to any device.

Help Desk – Achieving Customer Satisfaction
End User Confidence is difficult to win, very easy to lose, and critical in any effort to achieve customer satisfaction. The primary building blocks of customer service excellence must be met to win the hearts and minds of your customers. This session will describe how administrators can elevate the mindset of their entire end user population through the efforts of an effective and consistent Help Desk.

Paperless Hospital, Not Just the EMR Anymore
Even with CPOE, hospitals are finding that the paper is still in abundance. How do you cope with patients arriving with documents that are needed for patient care? Physicians sending orders who are not on your Health Information System? In this session, we will be discussing the Electronic Medical Record, the Electronic Legal Record, What to Collect, When to Collect it and how you can save Time and significant $ using workflow and ECM, Enterprise Content Management.

Plus:

• Wireless Devices – iPad, iPhone, and more!
• MEDITECH Disaster Recovery and Archiving for High Availability and Controlling Storage Sprawl within MEDITECH Environments

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David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health information technology at the Department of Health and Human Services, wrote an excellent article summarizing meaningful use for electronic health records for the New England Journal of Medicine.

Read the article at http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1006114?ssource=hcrc

Or download the PDF.

Overview of the HITECH Programs Created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Read the complete final rule at http://www.medi-talk.com/unz