ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, Builds Bridge between Deployment, Clinician Adoption of CPOE
Wolters Kluwer Health is featuring its customizable electronic order set solution in Booth #310 at AMIA 2010
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (Nov. 15, 2010) — Access to advanced clinical decision support (CDS) tools, such as evidence-based order sets and trusted clinical content, prior to system rollout is emerging as a successful strategy for ensuring user proficiency with and adoption of CPOE. As such, a growing number of hospitals are turning to ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, the industry-leading electronic order set solution from Wolters Kluwer Health.
“By implementing ProVation Order Sets in advance of CPOE, clinicians are able to leverage its toolkit of templates, pre-built and customizable order sets and direct links to trusted clinical content to accelerate the creation and management of a comprehensive library of evidence-based order sets,” said Linda R. Peitzman, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Wolters Kluwer Health. “This allows our hospital customers to bridge the gap between CPOE and EHR and ensure that both their physicians and order sets are ready for go-live.”
Advance deployment of ProVation Order Sets also shortens the learning curve by enabling clinicians to become accustomed to electronic order sets and integrate them into standard care processes prior to full CPOE implementation. That, in turn, minimizes the workflow disruptions and productivity losses generally experienced when CPOE and other clinical information systems are deployed.
“Most important, enabling clinicians to use ProVation Order Sets in advance of CPOE ensures that a hospital’s library contains those order sets they consider to be most crucial for enhancing the quality and safety of patient care,” said Dr. Peitzman. “It creates a sense of ownership over these important clinical tools, lessening frustrations and increasing overall satisfaction with both CDS and CPOE.”
A leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, Wolters Kluwer Health is featuring ProVation Order Sets in Booth #310 at American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2010, taking place Nov. 13-17 in Washington, D.C. It is also featuring Medi-Span® Clinical, a robust CDS platform that integrates with EHR/EMR applications to deliver comprehensive medication-related CDS at the point of care.
An easily customizable order set authoring and management solution, ProVation Order Sets provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardized care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical’s award-winning, clinician-designed technology platform, one of ProVation Order Sets’ primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 360,000 clinicians.
Central to this capability is the One Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate’s Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.
UpToDate covers more than 8,300 topics in 16 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text and graphics, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 385,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.
In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.
“When it comes to CPOE, hospitals are quickly discovering that success requires more than simply turning systems on and requiring their use,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “By implementing ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, prior to CPOE, hospitals and clinicians can more quickly realize the positive outcomes associated with making this kind of advanced CDS tool available at the point of care before and after deployment.”
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