SEATTLE, May 8 /PRNewswire/ — More than a thousand leading payors, hospitals and providers are updating their clinical decision support resources with the 11th Edition of the evidence-based Milliman Care Guidelines(R).
The annually updated Care Guidelines, released in February, include new and expanded clinical content, new healthcare management tools for busy doctors and nurses, and new and improved software, including the interactive CareWebQI(SM) software for users without extensive in-house IT support. Healthcare professionals use Milliman’s clinical guidelines and interactive software to support the care of one in three Americans.
To prepare the 11th Edition, Milliman Care Guidelines clinical editorial staff reviewed more than 100,000 articles and research reports from medical journals and publications worldwide. Information from some 13,000 of these references is included in the current six-product Care Guidelines series, which includes: Ambulatory Care, Inpatient and Surgical Care, General Recovery Guidelines, Recovery Facility Care, Home Care and Chronic Care Guidelines.
Expanded Clinical Coverage
While every product has been updated, some changes will significantly increase the Care Guidelines impact on patient outcomes and usability in a clinical setting:
-- To serve growing Spanish-speaking populations, patient educational materials on each of the 24 chronic conditions covered in the Chronic Care Guidelines product are available in Spanish for the 11th Edition. Both English and Spanish patient education materials are written at a fourth-grade level and designed to be given to the patient as part of an intervention. -- The Ambulatory Care product includes updated evidence summaries, incorporating the latest research about emerging technologies. For example, the 11th Edition significantly expands information on Imaging and Injectables. -- The Chronic Care Guidelines product is expanded to provide clinical tools to manage 24 chronic, complex, or multi-diagnosis conditions, including new guidelines on Chemical Dependency, Parkinson Disease and Solid Organ Transplantation. -- The Recovery Facility Care product incorporates and flags 2007 Joint Commission Long Term Care Goals, while the Home Care product now includes flagged Joint Commission Home Care National Patient Safety Goals. The Home Care product also adds information designed to help clinicians and care managers provide culturally and linguistically appropriate healthcare. -- The Inpatient and Surgical Care product adds new Patient Education and Information content and Care Management Tools, and also expands coverage of Common Complications and Conditions. -- Recovery Facility Care now features problem-oriented guidelines that can be used for patients without a specific diagnosis. New guidelines include Delirium Management, Pain Management, Wound and Skin Management, Neurologic Rehabilitation, Orthopedic Rehabilitation, and End-of-Life Care. New Software, Improved Interactivity and Access
For healthcare facilities without extensive IT support, the Care Guidelines products now are available in easy-to-use, web-based CareWebQI interactive workflow software. The new software documents users’ interactions with the Care Guidelines. It also reports on resulting real-time clinical data, including variances from evidence-based best practice; physician, facility and resource delays; national quality measures, and more. This hosted solution requires no installation or integration at the customer site, thus minimizing demand for in-house IT resources.
For clinicians using PDAs, key Ambulatory Care content now is available for easy reference in both Pocket PC and Palm OS software. This is in addition to the most widely used Inpatient and Surgical Care and General Recovery Guidelines content that was already available through Handheld software.
The powerful, customizable CareGuideQI(R) interactive workflow software also has been upgraded with the latest Care Guidelines content, several new content-access features, an enhanced reporting dashboard, new reports for the Ambulatory Care and Chronic Care Guidelines products, a configurable interface to meet specific user roles, and improved audit-trail abilities.
Behavioral Health Guidelines Coming Soon
Milliman Care Guidelines has scheduled a mid-year release for the Behavioral Health Guidelines product, using the same evidence-based approach as other Care Guidelines products. It will provide clinicians and care managers with well-documented, evidence-based healthcare criteria, care pathway tables, and annotated bibliographies addressing five levels of care for acute and chronic behavioral conditions.
Milliman Care Guidelines
Milliman Care Guidelines LLC, A Milliman Company, is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and has produced evidence-based clinical guidelines since 1990. More than 1,000 healthcare organizations license the Care Guidelines. For more information, visit http://www.careguidelines.com/.
Milliman Care Guidelines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Milliman, which serves the full spectrum of business, financial, government, and union organizations. Founded in 1947 as Milliman & Robertson, the company has 47 offices in principal cities in the United States and worldwide. Milliman employs more than 2,000 people, including a professional staff of over 900 qualified consultants and actuaries. The firm has consulting practices in employee benefits, healthcare, life insurance/financial services, and property & casualty insurance. It is a founding member of Milliman Global, an international organization of consulting firms serving insurance, employee benefits and healthcare clients around the globe. For further information, visit http://www.milliman.com/.
Milliman Care Guidelines
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