Clinical Care Documentation / Care Planning : within Clinical Applications

• Automatically assigns patient into an acuity class based upon a user defined total attribute point value.

• Provides a user maintained database of standard care plans which link nursing diagnosis/problem statement and outcomes/long-term/short-term goals to interventions and education.
• Ability to have interventions populate a treatment record, specify responsible discipline, and drop charges upon completion.

• Ability to access policies and procedures by subject or policy number and view information on-line, which can be facility specific.

• Allows for entry of free-form interdisciplinary progress/narrative notes with templates available to reduce keystrokes and promote comprehensive documentation.

• On-line incident reporting capability includes tracking and reporting on falls, medication errors, and all incidents involving patients, employees and visitors.

• Can audit on-line by user or patient all the electronic medical record information accessed with the ability to scan by date range.

• Automates CMS 700/701 forms with full integration of billing and clinical applications.

• Organization can choose which orders and care plan interventions to populate the treatment record with. This can be run separately by responsible discipline.
• Ability to view online all treatments for specific date range, by shift, when treatments are given, if given and document reason when not given.

User-Defined Clinical Assessment Tools : within Clinical Applications

• Links the assessment module to the care plan module by suggesting nursing diagnoses based on answers to assessment questions.
• All assessment tools are user defined and maintained, allowing organizations to keep the assessments they are currently using.

Order Entry : within Clinical Applications

• Accommodates user defined order entry screen which allows additional data to be captured along with order requirements.
• Allows for entry of orders from multiple sites including nursing stations, selected ancillary departments, and other service areas.
• Warns user of potential duplicate order upon entry of order.
• Checks for procedure-to-procedure and procedure-to-medication conflicts and provides an alert to view the conflicting tests or medications.
• Communicates service orders/requisitions to all appropriate departments automatically.
• Accommodates entry of order sets (by doctor, provider, diagnosis, or department), exploding and high frequency orders.
• Produces work lists for ancillary departments and clinicians, based on current orders.
• Order verification/review, receive, and complete orders for each ancillary department.
• Full integration with all relevant INTERACTANT Modules.
• Full reporting capability.
• Generates display for all orders to facilitate monthly renewals.

Clinical Staffing and Scheduling : within Clinical Applications

• Automatically feeds hours worked into the payroll system.

• Integrates employee demographic information with the scheduling component.
• Provides nursing management information concerning scheduling preferences, qualifications, and other employee data.
• Maintains all demographic, payroll, license, certification, and scheduling information for each organization employee (integrated with HCS Human Resources Management Module).

• Maintains float department allowing scheduling at any place within the organization.

• Responds to employee requests, schedule restrictions, organizational policies, and unit requirements.

Pharmacy : within Clinical Applications

• System can dispense to patients as well as employees.
• Full integration with all relevant INTERACTANT Modules.
• Pharmacy on-line adjudication to third party billing providers.
• View drug utilization by order/dose and physician.
• Pharmacy universal claim form.
• Pharmacy cycle fill period defined by nursing unit and can be modified.
• Complete reporting capability.
• Provides fill list designed to meet organizational needs.

• Integrates with First Data Bank Formulary.
• Accommodates formulary creation, updates, and inquiries.

• Provides pharmacy with a separate user modified security system.

• Accommodates ordering of floor stock pharmacy items.
• Provides a pharmacy alternate drug display, which lists medications within the same American Hospital Formulary Service Classification with pricing information to assist clinicians in making cost of therapy decisions.
• Inventory control for narcotics, return medication credits/adjustments, and doctor's standing orders.

• On-line MAR (Medication Administration Record) allows for accurate documentation of medications.

• Provides inquiry into drug compatibility and interaction tables.

Wireless Hand-Held Device : within Clinical Applications

• HCS INTERACTANT Software provides for wireless, hand-held devices which can be used for point-of-care computing.
• Allows for entry of all registration and admission information, clinical care documentation, order entry, and materials inventory management.
• Enables caregivers to capture information where it happens - at the point-of-care - in a cost effective manner.
• Bar coding allows for medication verification/administration, materials management, and immediate charging of supplies and medications.
• Improves standardization of charting.
• Facilitates data collection for utilization review and outcomes management.