The Intelligent Perioperative Suite
SOFTWARE FOR THE PATIENT SURGICAL JOURNEY
Perioperative care is critical to the health of today’s hospitals. One of the fastest-growing and most resource-intensive areas of the hospital, the operating room typically accounts for more than:
of hospital margins and costs
of all inpatient admissions
1/3
of all hospital supply costs
Picis® Clinical Solutions (Picis) brings all perioperative business and clinical applications together in one system. This single documentation solution streamlines processes and helps clinicians deliver better patient care.
A continuous patient record keeps care flowing smoothly, aligns clinical teams, and keeps administration informed while reducing costs.
Perioperative Software for the Patient Surgical Journey
Delivering Results Throughout the Perioperative Process
SCHEDULING
The power of Picis begins with a systematic, efficient approach to surgical scheduling that supports multiple facilities with ease. While patients are still in the physician’s office, surgeries can be scheduled remotely, saving time and improving satisfaction for both physicians and patients.
The scheduling system uses actual surgeon and procedure case times to estimate the duration of each surgery. This approach optimizes operating room use, improves scheduling accuracy, and ensures better utilization of valuable hospital resources.
Physician Office Link
Within OR Manager, the Physician Office Link allows physician offices to directly reserve surgical appointments and request time outside of assigned blocks.
If your facility uses block scheduling, reservations appear on the schedule as a “reserve” until the booking agent confirms or rejects the request.
Patient Tracking
Communication and patient flow are streamlined throughout the perioperative process with intelligent tracking of patients and resources in one continuous patient record.
Our solutions send proactive notifications to help patients move efficiently through the operating room. Staff are empowered with the information they need to provide better patient care.
SmarTrack Next
The next generation of the original SmartTrack product, SmarTrack Next is a communication tool designed for use throughout the facility.
It replaces whiteboards and paper-based information walls, providing a digital solution for faster, more efficient updates. Surgeons, nurses, operations teams, families, and other staff use SmarTrack Next to stay informed and connected.
- Communication with staff about assignments, schedules, delays and statuses
- Notifications to staff and to families informing them of the status of the patient’s journey
- Communication with other areas and departments (Pre-op, PACU, Housekeeping, Labs, Imaging, etc.)
Incision Decision
Scheduling
NEXT
PREOP
Picis Clinical Solutions improves the efficiency of the Pre-Admission Testing (PAT) process, and helps avoid delays and unnecessary costs, by ensuring the patient is ready for surgery. Patient history, evaluation and initial anesthesia plan can be completed online with configured forms, drop-down lists and checkboxes to help dramatically reduce documentation time and increase accuracy.
Preop Manager
Picis Preop Manager is a clinical decision support solution that automates the preop process and in conjunction with the patient portal, allows the patient to enter the pre-admission assessment data. It facilitates 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 costly surgery delays or cancellations, saving clinical staff time and providing potential cost savings for the hospital. Preop Manager includes:
Preoperative clinical decision support
- Patient-specific testing recommendations
- Patient-specific consult recommendations
- Patient-specific teaching instructions
Intuitive preop patient checklist management
- Automated surgical authorization
- Web-based patient intake portal
MANAGER
OPERATING SUITE
In the next stage of the patient journey, scheduling OR time, managing supplies, documenting intraoperative care, and maintaining accurate patient records are all critical for safety and billing.
In many facilities, multiple systems are used to capture, manage, and share this information.
OR Manager
Picis’ flagship product, OR Manager, is the foundation of electronic perioperative documentation. It provides seamless interoperability and maintains a complete, real-time patient record.
When integrated with your hospital’s materials management system, OR Manager’s preference cards help ensure each operating room is fully prepared for every procedure. This proactive supply management approach improves accuracy for supplies, charges, and inventory control.
OR Manager also helps reduce lost charges and speeds up billing by automatically capturing supply usage, OR time, and additional charges. These details are sent directly to your billing system for faster, more accurate submissions.
Picis OR Manager automates your key operating room applications, including:
- Physician Office Link for comprehensive patient scheduling
- Nurses Notes / via online nursing documentation
- Preference cards / supply chain management
- Tissue / Implant Tracking
- Materials Management Interface
- Integrated billing
- Bar Coding
Case Documentation
ANESTHESIA
On the day of surgery, patient care is the top priority. Reminders and prompts help clinicians follow standards of care, capture billing information, and maintain accurate documentation. Automated anesthesia records also improve legibility and consistency.
Picis supports the anesthesia team with direct connectivity to more than 400 unique medical devices. With no third-party systems involved, the platform automatically displays and records real-time physiologic patient data.
Anesthesia Manager
Picis Anesthesia Manager automates the anesthesia record from start to finish. Used by anesthetists to document and monitor patients during and after surgery, it helps manage large volumes of data while ensuring records are complete, accurate, and easy to read. Capabilities include:
- Intraoperative anesthesia care documentation
- Connectivity to medical devices
- Charge capture and streamlined professional fee billing interface
- Wave Forms *Add-on feature: must be a user of OR Manager 8.6 MR3 or higher
- Decision Support *Add-on module that requires prerequisites
MANAGER
PACU
Picis extends automation from the OR to the PACU, helping nurses and anesthesia teams document and manage complex post-surgical care more efficiently.
Hospitals can create procedure-based recovery protocols that guide staff through required assessments, interventions, and documentation steps. This approach improves compliance with regulations and reduces liability risk.
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
- Provides data correlation and visibility to fluids and medications
- Automatically captures physiologic data from medical devices
- Wave Forms *Add-on feature: must be a user of OR Manager 8.6 MR3 or higher
- Decision Support *Add-on module that requires prerequisites
REAL-TIME BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS AND REPORTING
Reporting is a critical part of every facility, yet data is often difficult to access quickly. In many cases, reports may be delayed by several days or more.
Picis Envision delivers powerful reporting and business activity monitoring tools that provide near real-time insights. Visual indicators display up-to-date information on case delays, turnaround times, patient satisfaction, and other key performance metrics.
These tools give your team the precise data needed to improve daily operations and maintain compliance with regulatory standards.
Envision
Envision is a tool that is changing the way leadership views and takes action on information that is critical to their resource management. You gain insight from macro trends and patterns at a glance, then are able to dive in to review, process, and share granular metrics. Insightful analytics help you make informed business decisions and measure the incremental progress of those decisions to achieve desired results. 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, revenue generating operating room.
Patient
Discharge
The Smart Choice
The Intelligent Perioperative Suite from Picis is designed to help hospitals manage the challenges of their most critical and resource-intensive departments.
Picis continues to focus on life-critical areas where patients are most vulnerable, care is most complex, and the majority of hospital costs and revenue are concentrated.
Our integrated software suite enables fast, consistent clinical documentation along with measurable financial and operational results. From department performance to patient case costing, hospitals gain access to real-time data that supports better patient care, stronger engagement, and improved revenue outcomes.
Picis Clinical Solutions (Picis), a wholly owned subsidiary of N. Harris Computer Corporation, is headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, with licensed systems in more than 400 hospitals worldwide.
