Ardent to expand system-wide use of SIS Anesthesia solution

Surgical Information Systems ("SIS"), a leader in perioperative information systems, announced today that Ardent Health Services of Nashville, Tenn. will expand its system-wide use of the SIS Solution to include anesthesia automation, analytics and patient tracking on a single perioperative record.  In preparation for upcoming meaningful-use criteria, Ardent will partner with SIS to be interoperable with McKesson systems in its hospitals in Albuquerque, N.M. and Tulsa, Okla. in order to improve patient safety, ease of use and functionality.

"The SIS Solution will allow us to improve our care to patients," said Steve Landgarten, M.D., chief medical officer and chief quality officer of Ardent Health Services.  "With these modules, caregivers in our hospitals can view important patient information in real-time such as which medications have been administered, when they were administered and what impact those medications have over time.  It's a much improved patient tracking, documentation and analytics process."

SIS Anesthesia is the only specialty anesthesia system featuring a shared database with a perioperative system.  This shared database enables continuity of care as any change to the perioperative record that impacts the anesthesia record is automatically reflected in the anesthesia record, optimizing the automation of the care process.  A single perioperative record is efficient, easy-to-use, cost effective and provides for consistent documentation across the perioperative continuum – supporting a higher quality of patient care.

In order to improve operational efficiencies and support continual process improvement, Ardent has also elected to implement SIS patient tracking and analytics tools.  SIS Web enables the health system's surgeons, anesthesia providers and others involved in the care process to view the entire OR schedule and patient tracking information remotely.  SIS Analytics provides role-based business intelligence to support operational improvement efforts by enabling users to drill down into perioperative information to easily identify root causes in an intuitive manner, using easy-to-understand tables and graphical displays.  "The SIS solution is an important part of our strategy to provide a higher-quality, more cost effective, perioperative care," said Landgarten.

SIS CEO Ed Daihl said that hospital-wide systems often struggle to provide the rich functionality and seamless data entry available through the SIS Solution.  "Hospitals are finding that a single integrated perioperative record has tremendous patient safety benefits, which is the entire purpose behind meaningful-use criteria," said Daihl.  "We are thrilled that our partnership with Ardent Health Services has led them to choose SIS as a central part of their meaningful-use strategy.  By leveraging the single-database SIS solution with McKesson HIS systems, Ardent will continue to provide its anesthesia providers with exceptional functionality to deliver outstanding patient care."