The report
describes “an especially urgent need to apply information
technology to the delivery of emergency care,” and outlines how
technology helps emergency departments (EDs) eliminate
bottlenecks, improve patient care and reduce costs, crowding and
patient wait times. In conjunction with the IOM’s Emergency Care
Dissemination Workshop being held today in Washington D.C.,
Picis is offering the report free for a limited time on its
website at http://www.picis.com/IOM/Report.asp.
According to the IOM report, the number of patients visiting EDs
increased by 23.6 million in the decade between 1993 and 2003.
At the same time, the number of facilities has declined: the
total number of hospitals in the United States decreased by 703,
the number of hospital beds dropped by 198,000, and the number
of EDs fell by 425.
The report recommends that EDs should implement information
systems that:
- Track and manage patient flow;
- Link ED physicians to patients’ records and the wider community;
- Support clinical decision making;
- Assist in clinical documentation;
- Enhance training and information retrieval;
- and Facilitate public health surveillance.
Picis ED PulseCheck® addresses each of these concerns. Designed
by and for emergency department clinicians, ED PulseCheck
combines triage, patient tracking, physician and nursing
documentation, risk management, charge documentation and
capture, integrated voice recognition, prescription writing and
integration with existing hospital information systems with its
Web-based architecture. ED PulseCheck is powerful and
easy-to-use, helping to enable hospitals to further improve
productivity and operational efficiency in the ED and helping
support the growing focus by hospitals to improve patient
safety.
“We’ve seen increased patient flow through the department and
the ability of the nurse managers to better move patients
through the department and speed processes,” said Richard
Sullivan, M.D., medical director for the Houston Medical Center
Emergency Department in Warner-Robins, Ga. “ED PulseCheck has
also helped us improve some of our interactions with other
departments in the hospital like radiology, since we could show
them how to speed some of their processes based on the
information we were getting out of the system. We nearly paid
for ED PulseCheck in under 12 months, as a result of increased
revenue from better charting, better coding, decrease in
personnel for transcription and other savings.”
“Through enhanced documentation with ED PulseCheck, Mount Sinai
Medical Center increased professional receipts by 50 percent,
completely eliminated lost charts, and raised end-of-month chart
completion from 65 to 95 percent,” said Kevin Baumlin, M.D.,
director of informatics and assistant professor, Department of
Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York
City. “Becoming a more efficient emergency department enabled
Mount Sinai Medical Center to further improve our high level of
patient care.”
More information on ED PulseCheck is available at the 11th
Annual Emergency Department Information Systems (EDIS) Symposium
(booth #101), held in Orlando, Fla. from December 10-13, and at
www.picis.com.
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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