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Hunterdon Medical Center to Standardize Care Delivery With Thomson Healthcare

Posted on: Thursday, 1 February 2007, 09:01 CST

New Jersey's Hunterdon Medical Center has begun implementing Thomson Healthcare's Order Set Solution, which is designed to improve hospitals' performance management in the medication care delivery and disease management process by providing evidence-based recommendations.

The Order Set Solution is an evidence-based library of order sets covering the most frequent hospital and emergency department diagnoses and procedures. The order set templates link to clinically consistent disease, lab and drug referential information from Thomson Healthcare, updated with the latest evidence by a team of practicing physicians and pharmacists.

Hunterdon Medical Center is implementing the Order Set Solution across its 178-bed facility. Additionally, Hunterdon will receive the Thomson Knowledge Management Tool, which manages, customizes and exports the order sets and the order item catalog to a variety of platforms: paper, clinician web portal, intranet, internet, or health information system with computerized physician order entry.

"The Thomson Healthcare Order Set Solution will provide our physicians with customizable order sets written with the best available medical evidence in compliance with national quality and regulatory standards, clinical practice guidelines and evidence ratings for each disease state," said Glenn Mamary, chief information officer at Hunterdon Medical Center. "We chose this Order Set Solution to help our clinicians standardize the continuity of care to achieve our community hospital's goal of delivering safer healthcare services to our patients."

Source: Datamonitor

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