Clinical Care Documentation / Care Planning : within Clinical Applications

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

• Supports on-line recording of medications, piggybacks, IV's, hyperal, and blood products ordered in HCS Pharmacy and Order Entry Systems.

• 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.

• Allows for entry of temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, weight, pain scale, and blood glucose.
• Provides a listing of all patient weights with a history of the last 30, 90, and 180 days noting percentage of change.
• Vital signs can be viewed in graphical format.

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.

Results Reporting : within Clinical Applications

• Allows viewing of single and composite results for each patient.
• Ability to print results on demand.

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.

Critical Pathways : within Clinical Applications

• Supports multidisciplinary critical pathway documentation.
• Automates critical pathways into an cause-and-effect grid which signifies expected patient outcomes and staff interventions for a case type.
• Individualizes critical pathway to patient needs.
• Provides outcomes reports on aggregate and concurrent variances, length of stay, causes of variances, success and variance rates compiled on daily, quarterly, annually, and year-over-year bases. Graphical printouts included.
• Captures variance on all critical pathway documentation.
• Functions throughout the continuum of care.
• Contains a variance database with sub-classifications that can be customized to the organization.
• Allows healthcare providers to view the critical pathway in three periods (hours, days, phases, etc.) at a time.
• Replaces progress notes with variance (exception) documentation.
• Provides a database for Continuous Quality Improvement, case management, utilization review, and best practice standards.

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.

Radiology : within Clinical Applications

• Provides a visual display of all patients with outstanding x-ray films.
• Provides a comprehensive film tracking system.

• Maintains on-line MTD summary by x-ray exam code.
• Integrates with payroll/human resources management for access to all demographic information for new employees.
• Provides restricted security access.
• Includes on-line daily log with MTD and YTD information.

• Radiology Registration.
• Radiology Scheduling.
• Film Tracking.

• Allows for ordering and scheduling of radiological exams for inpatients and outpatients.
• Generates charges upon entry of exam data automatically.

• Provides ability to add new patient to index.
• Allows for automatic assignment of x-ray identification numbers if desired.
• Integrated access to medical record index.

• Results can be entered on a transcription system and then stored for viewing on the HCS System.
• Allows entry of normal radiology results with one keystroke.

• Incorporates scheduling modules which assists with clerical/technical scheduling and equipment repair/maintenance.
• Resource availability can be tailored to the individual resource.
• Scheduling component allows for resource definition by department.

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.