US Veterans Affairs Hospitals Select Picis CareSuite

Picis, a healthcare solutions provider, has announced that New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System has selected Picis CareSuite for perioperative automation, adding to the rapid adoption of Picis solutions by government medical centers for their increasingly busy and demanding surgical environments.

CareSuite’s Total Perioperative Automation product suite documents the entire surgical episode – from preoperative scheduling and evaluation of patients, through surgery, anesthesia care and recovery – facilitating the seamless flow of data across the perioperative continuum of care. In addition to CareSuite’s cross-product integration, CareSuite has proven integration with a wide variety of medical devices and robust interoperability with the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), which helps eliminate silos of data, reduces redundant documentation and facilitates clinicians’ access to clinical data.

The New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System includes the VA Medical Center in Albuquerque, a Level 1 tertiary referral center. The hospital selected CareSuite OR Manager to automate its administrative and clinical functions including surgical scheduling, perioperative documentation, supply chain management, billing and more. OR Manager provides the critical data needed to help reduce costs, maximize resources and analyze the costs of delivering care. The system also offers enterprise-wide Web access to authorized personnel using an Internet browser.

OR Manager enables nurses and staff at the VA Medical Center in Albuquerque to utilize a Windows-based documentation tool that is easy to use, consistent, and provides outcome reports for the organization. These include physician statistics for the scheduling of complex cases that optimize the use of busy VA operating rooms. In addition, the system automates surgeon preference cards, time utilization reports, implant logs and cost analysis to help the organization better utilize supplies and resources.