CareAware Infusion Management™ Efficiently deliver and document multiple infusions
Nurses may spend more time walking room to room monitoring patient device data than they devote to bedside patient care. According to a 2008 study of nursing time and motion patterns, nurses overall traveled between one and five miles per 10-hour work shift. The average daytime traveling distance for nurses was higher at 2.4 and 3.4 miles per 10-hour shift. Monitoring infusion pump data can be an especially time consuming activity for nurses in acute care venues. These nurses must act as technology integrators, manually entering the information they read from infusion pumps into the hospital’s electronic medical record (EHR). This manual documentation can contribute to a variety of medical errors and take time away from patient care. These time consuming processes can be especially problematic in high-acuity situations in which clinicians often make multiple adjustments to infusions as a patient’s condition changes. Cerner’s CareAware Infusion Management™ helps alleviate these pain points by automating the infusion process.
• Links the patient’s infusion order and device to the hospital’s EHR, making clinical workflow more efficient. • Improves patient safety by removing the nurse from the role of data integrator • Allows nurses to spend more time focusing on direct patient care.
Time Savings By automating the entire infusion process from administration to documentation, nurses are able to save valuable time. For example, it can take up to two hours to document the infusion activity during a code situation. With CareAware Infusion Management the time taken to document a code can be reduced to 5 minutes. “Documentation that would have taken hours previously, takes minutes now and is much more accurate.” Sharon Muller, RN, MSN Director of Clinical Informatics WellSpan Health
In a venue where code situations are more common, this becomes a valuable time saver and gives nurses more time to dedicate to direct patient care.
Proven Efficiencies • Reduce time spent documenting a code from 120 minutes to 5 minutes • Reduce Time to Titrate and Document by 50%
Enhanced Decision Making CareAware Infusion Management offers immediate access to view cohesive patient information by associating the patient, device and medication orders. This information is then sent to the EHR for viewing, verification and interpretation. Gadgets within Infusion Management provide a graphic and relational representation of patient’s response to treatment which enables more rapid clinical decision making.
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Patient to Device Association gadget: Allows clinicians to associate a specific patient precisely to a particular infusion order and infusion device, as well as other devices such as a cardiac monitor. Unit View of Infusion Status gadget: Provides a comprehensive, filterable view of all patients on a unit and their infusions. Also clearly displays alerts and alarms making it easier to quickly recognize which device is alerting. “Infusion Management is the way technology is supposed to work. It’s doing those audacious and breakthrough things that are really going to bring value and are exciting.” R. Hal Baker, MD Vice President and CIO Wellspan Health Pharmacy Infusion Status gadget: Displays a filterable list of all patients for the facility and their infusion status enabling planning and prioritization of dispensing. This saves time and closes the communication loop between the bedside clinician, physician and pharmacy. Patient Infusion Status gadget: Provides a patient specific view of associated infusions and their status. This view can be utilized in correlation with other patient specific information. Infusion Graphing gadget: Gives users a near real-time, comprehensive, trended graphical view of hemodynamic and physiologic data in correlation with infusion data. Infusion Documentation gadget: Allows for contextual viewing and documentation of device data in relation to infusions.
At a Glance: • Information flows seamlessly from the infusion pump for viewing and documentation to the patient’s medical record. • Provides near real-time graphical and relational representations of the impact of an infusion on other clinical parameters such as lab results and vital signs. • Single-patient, Unit and Pharmacy views of associated infusions enable proactive management and betterinformed decisions • Documentation automatically populates the appropriate areas within your hospitals EHR.
Multidisciplinary Efficiencies Infusion Management can be utilized to gain efficiencies across the broader multi-disciplinary team. • Near real-time information display views can be personalized for each clinician. • Supports the workflow for physicians, pharmacists and nurses to allow for proactive patient care.
CareAware Infusion Suite™ “From an EMR perspective, Cerner has been a catalyst for integration and is the clear smart pump/EMR integration leader.”1 Cerner’s CareAware Infusion Suite which includes CareAware Infusion Management, CareAware Smart Pump Programming and CareAware Critical Care, seamlessly connects infusion pumps to the electronic health record (EHR) as a by-product of a more efficient workflow creating a centralized view for all medication infusion information. It eliminates potential programming errors and the need for clinicians to manually enter infusion information into to the hospital’s EHR, saving time to redirect towards patient care. 1. “Smart Pump/EMR Integration 2013: Not Easy, but Worth the Effort,” July, 2013. ©2013 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com 2. “Smart Pump/EMR Integration 2013: Not Easy, but Worth the Effort,” July, 2013. ©2013 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com
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