Client News Coverage

An integral part of any hospital's care processes, order sets have long provided clinicians with a standardized set of evidence-based treatment guidelines to assist with the patient encounter. They bring together established clinical protocols, proven best practices and medical content for a number of clinical scenarios and treatment plans, and provide clinicians with the information they need to make educated care decisions at the point of care.

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Physician adoption and leveraging healthcare IT (HIT) to comply with changing regulatory and accreditation mandates were among the top priorities identified by the clinicians and healthcare executives who gathered in Chicago for the Wolters Kluwer Health Client Advisory Board.

Health Management Technology»

Wolters Kluwer Health, a provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Sibley Memorial Hospital has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution. The hospital will implement the latest version of the software, which includes the unique One Click Updates tool, enabling easy and automatic updating to keep order sets current with the latest medical evidence.

Health Management Technology»

Computerized order entry has popped up in a lot of recent conversations I’ve had about HITECH incentives. Not surprisingly, hospitals ramping up order entry systems are having a devil of a time avoiding programming alert fatigue into their CPOEs. Following is a Q&A session on the topic with Linda Peitzman, M.D., who heads the clinical solutions group at Wolters Kluwer Health.

HealthData Management »

Although the order set, a standardized set of evidence-based treatment guidelines for a certain medical condition, has been around for decades, regulatory issues surrounding the performance of core measure and government funding for healthcare information technology through meaningful use guidelines have created an impetus for organizations to more rapidly expand their use of electronic versions of this tool.

Becker’s Hospital Review »

HealthEast Care System has nearly 600 order sets in its computerized provider order entry system. Nearly 250 of those are evidence-based and contain some form of clinical decision support.

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