Designing the Care-Planning Process to Guide Evidence-Based Practice
April 03 2009 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
CentraState and Pinnacle health systems already achieving positive
results following their successful implementation of Siemens' Plan
of Care CHICAGO, April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CentraState and
Pinnacle health systems will demonstrate and discuss how to
leverage information technology to improve nursing practice as part
of the Siemens Healthcare (http://www.siemens.com/healthcare)
experience at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Society (HIMSS) 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago.
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Siemens' Plan of Care (POC) technology, on display in Siemens'
booth (#2036), generates information to promote best-practice and
goal-oriented care among healthcare organizations'
interdisciplinary teams. The POC technology facilitates a
collaborative care-planning approach by allowing nurses to quickly
and easily implement a patient-specific collective care plan that
is derived from best-evidence content. Subsequently, the team's
efforts to continually update their plan of care becomes a natural
part of the workflow, creating efficiencies for all responsible
clinical team members who are evaluating a patient's progress
throughout the course of care. By utilizing Siemens' Plan of Care
tools, healthcare organizations have the opportunity and
flexibility to implement coded terminologies and evidence-based
content that can be modified to match the natural dialogue of
clinicians, while also adhering to industry terminology standards.
Plan of Care, combined with Siemens' premiere Health Information
System (HIS) Soarian, enables organizations to conduct
cross-patient analysis of interventions and outcomes, thereby
helping clinicians and executives make adjustments to treatment
protocols and thus supporting continuous improvements in quality,
process, and more informed decisions at the point of care. Two
Siemens' Soarian Clinicals customers were part of the Plan of Care
beta program launched in 2008. The 271-bed CentraState Health
System in Freehold, NJ, which in December 2005 became only the
187th hospital out of more than 5,700 throughout the U.S. to be
awarded the prestigious Magnet designation by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center (ANCC) of the American Nurses Association,
mapped out a clear vision and a unified effort to ensure clinician
and interdisciplinary care team buy-in was achieved early in the
process. CentraState's roadmap included five critical capabilities
they deemed essential in determining a successful implementation:
-- Provide a highly patient-centered customized plan of care that
can be a current relevant reference throughout the patient stay --
Develop valid, actionable plans of care with as few keystrokes and
clicks as possible -- Offer important data to support continuing
patient care upon discharge -- Enable shared data and observations
in near real-time -- Promote staff confidence in the technology
that presents analytical data which helps clinicians enable
adjustments in treatment protocol And, to ensure further adoption,
CentraState embarked on a multi-disciplinary approach that
incorporated input and expertise from nurses, clinicians, social
workers, and physicians. Its 30-member Plan of Care team
represented every nursing unit and discipline in the facility and
served as the joint decision-makers for executing its
interdisciplinary plan. To date, the results have been encouraging.
In a relatively short time frame, CentraState has already
documented improvements in its nursing productivity and
admission/assessment times. "CentraState has already developed 142
care plans with Soarian by using standardized nursing terminology
such as NANDA/NIC/NOC, "said Linda Geisler, RN, MNEd, NEA-BC Vice
President, Patient Care Services. "Since the first week that the
POC initiative was implemented, CentraState has maintained close to
100 percent compliance with ensuring that every patient admitted to
the hospital has a plan of care assigned to them within the first
24 hours of their admission. This will help us improve the quality
of our care delivery and will lead to increased positive outcomes
for our patients." Pinnacle Health System, a 500-bed health system
in Harrisburg, PA, that became the 10th hospital in Pennsylvania to
become Magnet-certified in 2006, partnered with Siemens and Zynx
Health to integrate evidence-based content into their Soarian Plans
of Care. When Plans of Care went live at Pinnacle in June 2008, it
was implemented in over 20 different workflow channels within the
organization and helped hospital staff and clinicians identify and
overcome specific workflow-related challenges based on the data
findings. "As a nurse executive I look for innovative tools and
strategies that will support my nurses in their day to day work,
making them more efficient and able to deliver safe and quality
patient care, "said Sherri Mater, RN, BSN, MS, Chief Nursing
Officer. "Siemens has given us these tools. Information technology
is a key tool in healthcare today and provides the support
necessary to ensure that things are not missed or fall through the
cracks. It is essential to our nurses' work." The Siemens
Healthcare Sector is one of the world's largest suppliers to the
healthcare industry. The company is a renowned medical solutions
provider with core competence and innovative strength in diagnostic
and therapeutic technologies as well as in knowledge engineering,
including information technology and system integration. With its
laboratory diagnostics acquisitions, Siemens Healthcare is the
first integrated healthcare company, bringing together imaging and
lab diagnostics, therapy, and healthcare information technology
solutions, supplemented by consulting and support services. Siemens
Healthcare delivers solutions across the entire continuum of care -
from prevention and early detection, to diagnosis, therapy and
care. Additionally, Siemens Healthcare is the global market leader
in innovative hearing instruments. The company employs around
49,000 people worldwide and operates in 130 countries. In the
fiscal year 2008 (Sept. 30), Siemens Healthcare reported sales of
euro 11.2 billion, orders of euro 11.8 billion, and Sector profit
of euro 1.2 billion. Further information can be found by visiting
http://www.siemens.com/healthcare.
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