Picis Quality Manager

Automated indicator tracking for perioperative documentation and processes

Unlike other ORMS on the market that simply produce a report of patients at risk, Picis Quality Manager, part of the CareSuite® family of high-acuity solutions, helps healthcare providers pinpoint perioperative conditions that may put a patient at risk, and then prompts healthcare staff to take action to prevent them from occurring in the future. Quality Manager also reduces manual chart review by automatically checking patient charts, pulling forward information onto one interactive review screen and then allowing users to do a review and follow-up online in one easy step.

For more than a decade, Picis has successfully automated the documentation of quality management, infection control and incident reporting in hundreds of healthcare facilities worldwide. By tying this expertise into the perioperative process, Quality Manager enables healthcare organizations to capture critical information about patient care issues in order to help improve patient satisfaction, streamline communications and reduce liability.

Key benefits:

• Reduces chart review
  Quality Manager reduces the need for manual medical record review. The system automatically gathers information throughout the surgical process, identifies cases that meet critical criteria and presents this information on one data entry screen. Nurses no longer have to look through massive amounts of data to find critical data elements tied to patient care issues. The system also provides paperless incident reporting with data integrated from other areas of the hospital information system.
• Provides accurate & timely reporting
  Quality Manager eliminates the lengthy paper trail and poor communication between departments that cause delayed incident reporting or tracking of quality of care issues. By allowing nurses to complete a simple worksheet online where staff from different departments document their follow up concurrently, Quality Manager improves accuracy and helps promote the timely reporting of incidents. Plus, the system can integrate patient or perioperative data from other information systems within the organization (including the HIS, OR Manager, Anesthesia Manager and PACU Manager) defaulting data onto worksheets automatically and eliminating duplicate data entry of information.