Automatic data collection of important patient information
- Collect patient information from PACU monitors, ventilators, laboratory systems, VistA/CPRS and other medical devices
- Spend less time charting and more time on direct patient care
Contiguous data throughout the perioperative environment
- Share a single comprehensive patient record and handoff report amongst nurses and physicians while permitting unique, intuitive views appropriate for each discipline
- Improve the transfer of communications and support quality assurance efforts through enhanced data integration in the PACU record
Best practice perioperative standard content
- Utilize standard pre-configured content
- Optimized best practice workflows that can dramatically reduce utilization of a hospital's clinical and IT resources during implementation timeframe
Support for documentation standards
- Access to standard care protocols—including key assessments, treatments, scores, laboratory results and medications
- Establish procedure-based recovery protocols that prompt staff to document necessary assessments, interventions, and requirements throughout the PACU stay
- Increase compliance with regulatory requirements and minimize liability exposure with problem-oriented charting, nursing practice guideline or nursing diagnosis format and opt to chart by exception
Clear visibility to fluids and medications
- Automatically records and displays fluids and medications documentation
- Integrates with intravenous pumps helping to provide near real time information for informed decision making
- Quickly and easily calculates and displays a fluid balance summary, at the touch of a button
- Correlate hemodynamic parameters with narcotics administration and the pain score
Configurable views support specialized care delivery
- Modify screen layouts, data presentation and reports to meet the needs of any specialized care delivery requirement
- Supports patient type documentation templates and views that can be organized to recover a simple or complex case over an extended period of time
Enhanced communication promotes multidisciplinary patient care
- Enable clinicians to view patient information simultaneously from different locations.
- Help enhance patient surveillance, avoid unnecessary delays and promote the multidisciplinary approach to patient care
- Transfer important information seamlessly to the Picis SmarTrack patient tracking module—allowing family members, care providers and administrators to proactively and automatically receive updates about patient status and location
