• Aerial View: Patients can now be tracked and managed throughout their stay using ED PulseCheck's aerial view tracking board, which provides a central control view at a glance. This innovative tool provides a customizable floor plan "snapshot" of all patients in the ED, and a detailed patient bar that reveals the most important information for each patient. With management tools such as aerial view, ED PulseCheck helps improve efficiency, increase patient throughput and decrease overall disposition time.
• Automated Barcode Medication Administration: ED PulseCheck's new barcode medication administration feature leverages barcode technology to provide additional information aimed at enhancing patient safety. Medical personnel can scan the wristband of the patient and then scan the packaging of the medication that is about to be delivered. Barcode medication administration allows emergency department clinicians to confirm then document that the right dose of the right medication was delivered to the right patient at the right time. If a conflict is found, ED PulseCheck will generate an error message that is recorded for quality assurance reporting.
• Department Rules: A new administrative rules engine allows hospitals to define parameters for real-time decision making, in order to positively impact throughput and efficiency. For example, a rule can be established that when the number of patients in the waiting room exceeds a defined number, an administrator will be paged to manage the issue; or, if the nurse-to-patient ratio exceeds a defined limit, an instant message will be generated to alert the charge nurse.

"Department rules will allow hospitals to define and automate monitoring so managers can actively and effectively allocate resources to improve patient care," said Kevin M. Baumlin, M.D., director of informatics and assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and a Picis ED PulseCheck user since 2003. "Becoming a more efficient emergency department will enable Mount Sinai Medical Center to further improve our high level of patient care."

"According to the recent Institute of Medicine report, many of the nation's emergency departments are overwhelmed with patients, contributing to long wait times and hospital diversions," said Mark D. Crockett, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., president of Picis Emergency Care Division. "Today, approximately 200 medical centers are using ED PulseCheck to help increase efficiency, and many customers cite reduced patient length of stays and increased patient capacity, revenues and patient satisfaction scores since implementing ED PulseCheck."

About Picis
Picis is an established provider of innovative healthcare information technology solutions designed to transform the delivery of patient care in the high-acuity areas of the hospital, including the emergency department, operating and recovery rooms and intensive care units. Picis offers the most advanced suite of integrated products focused on these life-critical areas of the hospital where the patients are the most vulnerable, the care process is the most complex and an increasing majority of hospital costs are incurred. Headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Picis has licensed systems for use in more than 1,000 hospitals in 19 countries. More information is available at www.picis.com.

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