ED PulseCheck Helps to Promote Excellence in Patient Care

A Picis customer since 2004, Alegent Health uses ED PulseCheck in five acute care hospitals to automate nursing and physician documentation, and risk management, while sustaining the healthcare system’s top quality scores and promoting excellence in Core Measures compliance.

Dr. Westcott’s experience captures the essence of the EHR Incentive Program: HITECH’s goal is not adoption alone but the “meaningful use” of electronic health records – that is, their use by providers to help achieve significant improvements in care.Alegent Health System, the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa, recently hosted Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, to demonstrate their use of innovative medical technologies including Picis ED PulseCheck™, A Picis customer since 2004, Alegent Health uses ED PulseCheck in five acute care hospitals to automate nursing and physician documentation, and risk management, while sustaining the healthcare system’s top quality scores and promoting excellence in Core Measures compliance.

“The main thing is that we can share information and that we can report on information because the only way that you know if you’re getting better is if you can run a report and see, okay this doctor takes twice as long as this doctor, this doctor missed more appendix presentations than another doctor. And we can do that with the power of the data that we can get from ED PulseCheck.”

Michael Westcott, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer, Alegent Health

View a video of Secretary Sebelius, HHS Secretary, touring the nation’s first paperless hospital, including her reaction to ED PulseCheck*.
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Alegent Health received a Picis Customer Recognition Award for ARRA HITECH Preparedness
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Dr. Michael Westcott discusses the benefits of the Risk Mitigation tools at Alegent Health. 
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_{*Picis ED PulseCheck data is accessed and viewed in near real-time}