SmarTrack automatically notifies the family members in the waiting room when their loved one has moved to another area in their surgical journey. Updating the family members as the surgery is progressing is a family and patient satisfier
Government Suite
At Picis, we are constantly evaluating how our software can help put the Veteran patient first. Our development is focused on how to better support the enhancement of patient care while streamlining the workflow of the clinician. We accomplish this by providing a contiguous patient record to keep care flowing, practitioners in sync, and administration in the know.
Picis in the VA by the Numbers
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Federal Medical Centers
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Outpatient Clinics
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VISNs
Picis® offers our customers a federally-focused sales and professional services team, dedicated contract management, strong program management, and industry experts that specialize in delivering leading edge perioperative solutions for all federal healthcare initiatives.
Surgical Workflow Solution for the Patient Journey
Patient Safety
Picis OR Manager and Anesthesia Manager help to support patient safety
The OR Manager system can make the site and side fields mandatory during the booking process and are available on SmarTrack® (any screen) and in ALL documentation screens
With conditional preference cards, the correct supplies are automatically selected on the pick list to pull. For example, if a patient has a latex allergy, the system will pull non-latex supplies; such as catheters. The latex allergy and all precautions are on every SmarTrack board for all clinicians and staff to review when caring for the patient
OR Manager documents the “Electronic Time Out” to ensure patient safety while providing notifications to ensure completion
An electronic check list in Preop Manager is available to all perioperative staff to ensure all pre-surgical tests are completed, current history and physical is available and proper consents have been signed
Picis helps to improve the accuracy of the OR Surgical Record
Conflict checking equipment and/or instruments during the scheduling process to ensure availability on the day of surgery; as well as conflict checking to rearrange the schedule when an emergent case is added on
Scheduling cases by average case times allows the operating room the flexibility to accommodate any urgent or emergent cases appropriately
SmarTrack provides notifications of patient readiness in Preop for surgical staff to retrieve the patient (elimination of phone calls)
Implant documentation on the patient record with serial and lot number associated to the patient in case of recall – with standard reports to pull for recalled implants
Patient Tracking
SmarTrack
SmarTrack is an interactive tool, which speeds and simplifies the tracking of surgical patients throughout the entire perioperative process. An intelligent tracking system, SmarTrack promotes a smooth flow of patients through surgery, resulting in increased productivity and improved patient, family and staff satisfaction.
SmarTrack:
Reduces phone calls between departments
Proactively notifies staff when a patient is behind schedule
Offers customized big-board displays to reflect your preferred method of display
Preop
Preop Manager
Picis Preop Manager is a clinical decision support solution that automates the preop process. This system helps to facilitate better adherence to evidence and consensus based preoperative protocols while helping to improve surgery readiness by providing a centralized tracking board that manages patient checklists. The result is a preop workflow that can be optimized at the point of care, enabling more timely and complete assessments, avoiding surgery delays or cancellations, saving clinical staff time.
Preop Manager:
Provides preoperative clinical decision support, including providing clinicians with patient-specific testing recommendations, consult recommendations, and teaching instructions to review
Operating Suite
OR Manager
Picis’ flagship product, OR Manager is the cornerstone of electronic perioperative documentation,with seamless interoperability with VistA/CPRS and CIS/ARK systems, is paramount to providing high-quality veteran patient care.
OR Manager’s preference/pick cards help ensure the OR is properly supplied for each surgery. This proactive supply management system increases the accuracy of supplies, charges and inventory control. The system also helps facilities analyze and report on surgical blocks, track quality measures to reduce errors, and manage all aspects of the patient surgical journey with continuous patient data.
Picis OR Manager automates your key operating room applications, including:
Physician Office Link for comprehensive patient scheduling
Nurses Notes / via online nursing documentation
Preference / pick cards
Supply chain management
Built-in tissue and implant tracking for regulatory compliance
Materials management interface
Anesthesia
Anesthesia Manager
Picis Anesthesia Manager automates the anesthesia record from start to finish. Utilized by anesthesiologists to document and monitor their patients during and post-surgery, it helps clinicians easily manage large volumes of data while providing more complete, accurate and legible records.
Anesthesia Manager:
Streamlines intraoperative anesthesia care documentation
PACU
PACU Manager
Picis PACU Manager manages post anesthesia documentation. Our recovery module gives PACU nurses a tool that assists with patient care, automatically connecting to devices and streaming device data. Staff can focus more on patient care and less on documentation as the system’s powerful capabilities reduce charting time, improve record accuracy, legibility and availability.
PACU Manager:
Automates postoperative clinical documentation
Collects medical device data automatically
Visibly correlates physiologic data to fluids and medications
Captures physiologic data from medical devices, automatically
Critical Care
Critical Care Manager
The Critical Care Manager enables seamless information sharing across the continuum of care within the clinical team. This automated solution organizes high-volume device data, lab results, calculations, orders, medications and clinical documentation for physicians, nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary team. With boosted interoperability, collect data from your devices from the vitals monitor to the ventilator and automatically share even the most discrete patient data with the overall CIS record.
Critical Care Manager:
Automatically collects data through connectivity to medical devices and intravenous pumps
Real-Time Business Intelligence and Retrospective Analysis and Reporting
Envision
Gain insight from macro trends and patterns at a glance, then dive in to review, process, and share granular metrics. From department performance to patient case costing, interact with the metrics you need to improve your practices on any screen, including tablets and mobile devices. Envision provides the insights to help drive your vision by providing OR focused metrics that are vital to running a successful, highly efficient operating room.
Envision:
Connects to the CIS to provide an up-to-date view of your performance
Manages by exception with business activity monitoring
Delivers high-value information via role-based reporting
Near real-time operational analysis
Add-Ons
Waveforms
To help hospitals and clinicians document their patient records in an easier and more effective way, Picis has a feature for clinicians to add waveform snapshots to a patient’s chart and to printouts.
* To add-on Waveforms, must be a user of Anesthesia Manager 8.6 MR6 or higher.
Waveforms:
Sepsis Screening via Rule Based Notifications
With the potential for sepsis syndromes to be fatal for patients, early detection of symptoms is vital. Through our rule-based notification system, Picis solutions provide hospitals and clinicians with tools to implement their own Sepsis screening protocols.
* To add-on Sepsis Screening, must be a user of Anesthesia Manager 8.6 MR6 or higher.
Sepsis Screening:
Capabilities Statement
Picis is a provider of clinical software solutions to over 70 Federal Medical Centers and Clinics to optimize their perioperative, anesthesia, and critical care environments in workflows. Picis offers our customers and vendor partners dedicated contract management, strong program management, and a federally-focused sales and professional services team that specializes in delivering leading-edge perioperative solutions for all federal healthcare initiatives.
Picis’ entire perioperative suite of products is approved by US Department of Veterans Affairs and are listed on its official Technical Reference Model (TRM) for approved products.
Picis Corporate Snapshot
Business Type: Large Business
NAICS:
Primary – 511210 Software Publishers
Secondary – 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services
Cage Code: 3V2V3
DUNS: 105505866
GSA Contract Holder: GS-35F-0589X
VA Contract Holder: VA Enterprise Maintenance
Benefits of Picis Partnership
Professional Services That Maximize Value
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