Clinical Content: The Key to A Successful EHR Implementation

Utilize Clinical Resources More Efficiently

EHR solutions often promise more efficient and effective clinical operations, and yet many EHR implementations fail. Studies have shown that clinicians have real valid concerns about EHR’s. To embrace the EHR, the clinician’s need to be engaged in its design, namely the design of the guiding and alerting content, the layout of the information in screens, and incorporation of evidence and best practice of the local environment. The effort required to participate in EHR configuration and design is staggering. Managing the logistics of getting clinical and operational experts together at the same time in the same place to review and approve content introduces risk to the release schedule. Yet no order, no field, no list of options, no alert, no content, and no EHR screen can be deployed without review and approval.

With Plexina™ 2.0, Clinical Specialists are empowered to review, build and manage a full suite of evidence-based and best-practice clinical content for the EHR, including order sets, utilizing critical ongoing physician input. Plexina streamlines all phases of input and review, without burdening doctors and nurses with unnecessarily long, iterative validation sessions. Design and validation by clinicians still happens, but much more concisely and effectively freeing clinicians up from tasks other members of the build team can do safely.

Plexina…

  • Leverages physician knowledge by importing local (or 3rd party) raw clinical content in any form as a starting point for use during order set design and review cycles.
  • Allows physicians and clinical specialists to build consensus electronically, capturing input directly onto the order sets as they are reviewed.
  • Uses patent pending analytics to automatically match clinical terminology with local proprietary controlled vocabularies and also to standardized catalogs such as ICD-9, ICD-10, and SNOMED CT.
  • Displays “configuration ready” preview of order sets as they would appear within the CPOE module of your EHR before they are fully implemented, without manual configuration, making real time iterative changes to order sets without long development cycles and delays. Changes can be done interactively in a clinical review session.
  • Monitors the Order Set build progress, identifying remaining steps & signoffs across the hospital.
  • Analyzes for order set commonalities identifying opportunities for: re-using completed order sets, eliminating duplication, creation of common order sub-sets, and optimizing the work allocation for the build process

With its intelligent analytics and time saving features, Plexina 2.0 dramatically reduces content development effort and delays for CPOE by as much as 80%, while increasing quality of content, meaningful physician adoption, and improving patient outcomes.