Helping to streamline electronic documentation processes for
perioperative care, CSC (NYSE: CSC) and the Association of
periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) announced today that Cerner
(Nasdaq: CERN), a global supplier of healthcare solutions, will be the
first to provide AORN SYNTEGRITY™ Standardized Perioperative Framework
(SPF) within a surgery and anesthesia management clinical information
system. With AORN SYNTEGRITYTM, the amount of
clinical staff time needed to configure and support electronic health
record (EHR) perioperative documentation can be reduced by as much as 80
percent.
“The
combination of AORN SYNTEGRITY™ Standardized Perioperative
Framework and the Cerner Millennium SurgiNet
solution further improves the safety and efficiency of hospital
operating rooms.”
Currently, there are no standardized guidelines for recording patient
data in perioperative systems. Hospitals invest valuable clinical
resources in the development and management of their own guidelines,
workflow processes and training documents required for electronic
documentation. AORN SYNTEGRITYTM is designed to complement
EHR programs. By incorporating the AORN SYNTEGRITYTM
guidelines into the Cerner SurgiNet® solution,
hospitals can reduce the time spent developing individual processes and
guidelines and can ensure that perioperative care documentation is
aligned with AORN recommendations.
“By bringing AORN SYNTEGRITYTM to Cerner’s clients, we can
provide reliable documentation options for many operational and clinical
evaluations, and help hospitals gather information for benchmarking that
can be used to proactively determine changes needed to improve patient
care,” said Deward Watts, president of CSC’s Healthcare Group. “The
combination of AORN SYNTEGRITYTM Standardized Perioperative
Framework and the Cerner Millennium SurgiNet
solution further improves the safety and efficiency of hospital
operating rooms.”
Developed by CSC and AORN, SYNTEGRITYTM helps streamline the
capture of critical patient data for perioperative care in hospitals,
outpatient facilities and ambulatory surgery centers. The framework
enables health practitioners to quickly identify and document patient
care elements across the continuum of perioperative care, including
preadmission, preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases.
AORN SYNTEGRITYTM also includes data fields necessary for
reporting relevant operational, quality and regulatory information.
“Creating an electronic health record for every patient by 2014 is a big
part of President Obama’s agenda, and AORN SYNTEGRITY™ Standardized
Perioperative Framework provides a template for how electronic and
standardized documentation can become widespread in not only surgical
departments but across the healthcare continuum,” said AORN executive
director Linda Groah, RN, MSN, CNOR, FAAN. “With today’s announcement,
Cerner is helping hospitals come closer to fulfilling this federal
requirement and guiding perioperative care professionals into the future
of healthcare.”