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UMass Memorial Health Care implements Picis CareSuite perioperative and anesthesia solutions

Published on March 16, 2010 at 1:46 AM · No Comments

Picis today announced that UMass Memorial Health Care, the largest healthcare system in Central and Western Massachusetts, has selected Picis CareSuite® perioperative and anesthesia solutions for more than 60 operating rooms in its five hospitals. UMass Memorial chose Picis integrated technology to deliver clinical documentation and financial information more quickly and accurately across the UMass Memorial Health Care system, thereby promoting quality patient care. Picis will demonstrate this technology at the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) 57th Annual Congress this week in Denver, CO in booth #1739.

“The benefits to UMass Memorial patients include better coordination of care between clinicians, and consistency of patient information”

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Using Picis’ total perioperative automation solution, UMass Memorial plans to implement a single integrated operating room management system (ORMS) across the five hospitals, helping to streamline clinician workflow through the entire surgical process from pre-admission testing (PAT) through the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) and recovery. The Picis solution will help unify and centralize documentation on one perioperative platform, while capturing data from medical devices directly in the patient record. The Picis solution is designed to automatically update the patient’s electronic health record (EHR) and make the information readily available for clinicians’ use in treatment and management reporting.

Picis’ solution eliminates redundancies and improves the accuracy of information, allowing clinicians to spend more time on direct patient care and less time charting, searching for information or transcribing data from other systems. As a result, clinicians and families are better able to track the progress of a patient across the surgical pathway, recognize milestones and prepare for each step in the process.

“We expect the Picis perioperative solution to be an important building block in our multi-year, multi-entity corporate initiative to implement common patient clinical documentation and financial systems,” says John O’Brien, President and CEO, UMass Memorial Health Care. “The goal of this initiative is to reduce variability in our processes and workflows across the UMass Memorial Health Care enterprise, thereby increasing the quality of patient care. We believe the Picis solution will help us in this initiative by providing improved communication and customer satisfaction.”

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