McKesson, a provider of healthcare technology, has announced that Saint Vincent Health System has selected its Horizon Clinicals Care Team Release to upgrade and extend its current clinical systems.
According to the company, Horizon Clinicals Care Team Release is a solution that unifies the medical and interdisciplinary care plans. Saint Vincent Health System plans an electronic health record (EHR) that will be used to facilitate communication among the entire care team and provide access to patient information, helping clinicians provide safer patient care.
According to the company, both hospitals in the system, Saint Vincent Health Center and Westfield Hospital, will upgrade their electronic patient record storage technology to McKesson’s Horizon Patient Folder document imaging solution.
Plans also call for the implementation of Horizon Patient Folder Analytics. This business intelligence tool is claimed to provide a dashboard illustrating business process optimization goals and efficiencies in the health information management (HIM) department.
Saint Vincent Health Center will deploy several other solutions in the Horizon Clinicals product suite. Nursing documentation will transition from a previous electronic system to McKesson’s workflow-based computerized nursing documentation solution. It will also deploy McKesson’s web-based physician portal. Using the portal, physicians can review patient test results, orders and diagnostic results regardless of location.
The deployment plan calls for Saint Vincent Health Center to implement McKesson’s emergency department information system (EDIS) and tracking board to help support patient safety. Additionally, plans call for the implementation of Horizon Meds Manager in the pharmacy with bar-coded patient identification facilitating continued medication safety initiatives, including advanced tools to support the medication reconciliation process.
Duncan James, group president of health systems solutions at McKesson Provider Technologies, said: “We’re excited to partner with Saint Vincent as it works toward creating a more connected and collaborative care environment that will benefit both clinicians and patients.”
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