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St. Joseph Health System Optimizes Surgery Management Across IDN with Picis Total Perioperative Automation Solution
Picis to centralize data, integrate records and provide OR and anesthesia analytics
WAKEFIELD, Mass. — July 12, 2010 — Picis announced today that St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) in Orange, Calif., one of the largest integrated delivery networks (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,” 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.
Facilities included in this enterprise-wide agreement include: Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Napa, Calif.; St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton, Calif.; St. Joseph Hospital, Eureka, Calif.; Redwood Memorial Hospital, Fortuna, Calif.; Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Santa Rosa, Calif.; Petaluma Valley Hospital, Petaluma, Calif.; St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, Calif.; Mission Hospital, Mission Viejo, Calif.; Mission Hospital, Laguna Beach, Calif.; St. Mary Medical Center, Apple Valley, Calif.; St. Mary Outpatient Surgery Pavilion, Apple Valley, Calif.; Covenant Medical Center, Lubbock, TX; and Covenant Woman’s & Children’s Hospital, Lubbock, TX.
Picis solutions provide the flexibility to meet the needs of health systems ranging from an individual hospital or ambulatory center to large-scale healthcare enterprises and leading IDNs. Among the prestigious IDNs using Picis perioperative solutions are: Sutter Health in Northern Calif., The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.; Virtua in Southern New Jersey; and UMass Memorial Health Care in Massachusetts. For more information on Picis CareSuite, visit http://www.picis.com/products.
About Picis
Picis is a global provider of innovative information solutions that enable rapid and sustained delivery of clinical, financial and operational results in the acute care areas of the hospital. These high-acuity areas include the emergency department, operating and recovery rooms, and intensive care units. Picis offers the most advanced suite of integrated products focused on these life-critical areas of the hospital where the patients are the most vulnerable, the care process is the most complex and an increasing majority of hospital costs and potential revenue are concentrated. Headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Picis has licensed systems for use in more than 1,800 hospitals in 19 countries. For more information on Picis, please visit www.picis.com/solutions or join a discussion on healthcare information technology, RAC audits or other issues, visit healthcare-exchange.com, the Picis blog. Follow Picis on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PicisInc.
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