SJHS selects Picis perioperative and anesthesia information management solutions

Picis announced today that St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) in Orange, Calif., one of the largest integrated delivery network (IDNs) in the United States, has selected Picis perioperative and anesthesia information management solutions for 13 facilities and an estimated 81 operating rooms (ORs) as the standard across the IDN. This enables SJHS to consolidate six different databases into a single integrated total perioperative automation solution using Picis technology to capture, compare, benchmark, and share meaningful data across the enterprise. SJHS anticipates significant operational improvements and a return on investment of millions of dollars from improved OR management, billing and reimbursement, improved clinician and patient satisfaction and standardization of the patient record.

“By selecting Picis for all of our hospitals' operating rooms, we can drive process improvements, combine resources, use analytics to optimize cost savings, and efficiencies and drive best practices in the quality of care we provide throughout the enterprise”

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"By selecting Picis for all of our hospitals' operating rooms, we can drive process improvements, combine resources, use analytics to optimize cost savings, and efficiencies and drive best practices in the quality of care we provide throughout the enterprise," says Jim McManus, Vice President of Finance, St. Joseph Health System. "Interoperability is critical and Picis is helping us bring together information in meaningful ways across care areas, such as OR and anesthesia management, as well as across the enterprise."

SJHS previously deployed Picis solutions in several of its ministries with great success, including St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, Calif. Beginning in 2005, St. Jude automated its perioperative suite from surgical scheduling through surgery and anesthesia to PACU, providing a streamlined process, enhanced communication and quality reporting. St. Jude was honored with a Picis 2010 Customer Recognition Award in June for its achievements in clinical excellence, including its improved coordination of care, analytics and documentation. Building on this successful deployment, SJHS decided to centralize and standardize with Picis in the operating room and anesthesia care areas across the organization.

"As health care organizations such as St Joseph Health System adopt advanced transformation initiatives, such as Lean IT, they need advanced software solutions like Picis total perioperative automation to provide rich data, advanced analytics and reporting to help drive improved quality and productivity of its surgical services, the largest service area by revenue in a hospital," said Todd Cozzens, CEO of Picis.

SJHS plans to implement Picis solutions on a consolidated database and go live sequentially across its ministries with OR Manager, SmarTrack^®, Picis Perioperative Dashboard, Anesthesia Manager, PACU Manager, Extelligence^® OR and Extelligence Anesthesia, all part of the CareSuite family of high-acuity solutions. This end-to-end information management solution supports easy access and retrieval of patient electronic health records (EHR) and data for improved accuracy and efficiency to help in clinician decision making. By interoperating with major hospital information systems and medical devices, Picis minimizes redundancies and allows clinicians to spend less time charting and searching for information, and spend more time on delivering quality patient care.