Utilized by anesthetists to document and monitor their patients in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative stages of surgical care, Picis® Anesthesia Manager automates the anesthesia record from start to finish. The system easily manages large volumes of data and assembles key information to create one contiguous patient record.
Picis Anesthesia Capabilities Include:
Integration with Picis OR Manager and other OR systems
Preoperative patient management
Preoperative clinical decision support
Intuitive preop checklist management
Web-based patient intake portal
Configurable documentation templates
Medical device connectivity
Advanced patient/case tracking
Clinical decision support
User-defined rules
Automated notifications
PACU documentation
Automation of supply and pro fee billing
Analytics to help run your practice Quality reporting
Standard AQI report extract
Mobility
Integration with HIS and financial systems
Recommended default best practices
Streamline and Automate the Preoperative Assessment
Patients scheduled for surgery can enter their medical history securely online at their convenience. Comorbidities are captured and integrated within the record, facilitating review and completion of the preoperative assessment by preop clinic staff and the anesthetist. Preoperative clinical decision support is applied to the patient’s medical history, which generates patient / case specific teaching instructions, diagnostic testing and consult recommendations for clinical review, and generates a customized set of administrative tasks that need to be completed, prior to, and on the day of surgery.
These teaching instructions, testing / consult recommendations and administrative tasks combine to create a complete preop checklist for the patient, helping to ensure all preop tasks are completed in a timely manner, and key steps are not missed or unnecessary steps / tests performed. This results in fewer day-of surgery delays and cancellations while ensuring the most efficient preop process possible.
- Optimize for quick data access making it easy to read and support multidisciplinary preoperative documentation and chart review
- Allow anesthetists to quickly build concise and completed anesthetic assessments while supporting the workflow surrounding the preoperative evaluation
- Quality measure tracking with Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI) integration and report on patient populations and postoperative results
Increase Quality of Anesthesia Record
Picis Anesthesia Manager generates structured and legible clinical documentation, reducing the risk of errors, from non-standard documentation and illegible notes. Configurable templates reflect institutional requirements, and forms are easily modified when requirements change. Comprehensive recommended documentation practices, for patient records and quality reporting, leverages a compilation of Picis customers’ best practices, accelerating compliance through updated clinical content, without compromising existing records.
- Required and recommended fields help ensure compliance with documentation guidelines
- Care Beacon prompts for SCIP compliance, scores, assessments, nursing care activities
- Templates and macros document meds, fluids and events
- Library of interfaces link to multiple medical devices
- Configurable links to other clinical systems while maintaining patient and user context
Native Connectivity
No third-party device integration needed
Increase Anesthesia Charge Capture and Professional Fee Billing
Complete, accurate and legible case documentation meets anesthesia documentation standards, captures all anesthetics and amounts used, plus tracks other supplies. Clinicians produce standard professional fee billing output for transmission to third-party billing companies.
- Increases reimbursement resulting from documentation of comorbidities
- Aids compliance with standards of care and capture of required data for billing
- Automatically abstracts and transmits billing information from the anesthetic record
- Produces output via an HL7 interface to 3rd party billing companies
- Summarizes intraoperative events to facilitate postop care and provide billing details
Support Quality Initiatives
Picis Anesthesia Manager supports various hospital and physician-required quality initiatives such as SCIP, PQRS, Medicare, and other quality reporting initiatives, such as AQI.
- Provides reporting for hospital quality assurance departments
- Tracks cases by anesthesia professional and performs concurrency checks on caregivers
- Captures and reports core measures to regulatory and accrediting agencies
- Meets Joint Commission mandates for each patient encounter
- Provides standard report extract for submission to Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI)
