The Importance of Healthcare Data Analytics
Hospitals have been mining patient data for many years. Now more than ever, reporting and analytics have become one of the most important tasks. Not only is it essential to improve the quality of patient care, the patient and practitioner experience, advance medical research, as well as identify and utilize a tool to properly plan […]
The New Picis 10
The anticipation is finally over – PICIS 10 is here!!! I am sure many of you have heard of Picis 10, but you may not have seen all the enhancements included in the beautiful, new user interface. Not only does Picis 10 have an updated look and feel, but we’ve also added in some useful […]
Windows End-of-Life Considerations and Potential Risks to Healthcare Facilities
It’s interesting how we often all can be in the same boat from a technology perspective. Advances and improvements in software generally make our lives easier and offer new and more efficient ways to run our day-to-day operations. Coming from a business operations background, I appreciate how our software can help drive results for our […]
Building the Best Practice Nursing Documentation in OR Manager
In June we discussed best practices around intraoperative documentation. Many times, documentation screens are built and fields are added when needed but are not often reviewed to make sure the documentation screens follow best practices. Several hospitals that I have visited over the last few years have had many documentation screens in the case record—one […]
A Customer Collaboration Enhances Product Development Plan: Rules Engine Helps to Mitigate Sepsis
Continuing with the previous blog post about user collaboration, in this post I want to share details about a few more of our recent collaborations with Picis customers. A couple of years ago, one of our users, Dr. Richard Barrow, sent us an article about EHRs (Electronic Health Records) using algorithms for how to detect […]
Clinical Decisions Supported by Localized Evidence in Health Management Information Systems
In my last blog, I talked about how the Picis Multi-Doc Viewer allowed the consolidation of disparate pieces of data from various sources to be consolidated into a centralized location for clinicians to view. Envision leveraging Microsoft Power BI, is another offering from Picis that allows hospitals to plug directly into their health management information […]