McKesson Announces Solution for Anesthesia Documentation.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2003 Expanded surgical services offering for reduced variability of care, reduced costs and improved patient safety McKesson Information Solutions recently announced the addition of Anesthesia Documentation to its leading-edge Horizon Surgical Manager(TM) solution for reducing the variability and costs associated with surgical services. Anesthesia Documentation helps clinicians to identify and avoid potential medication errors medication error Malpractice An error in the type of medication administered or dosage. See Adverse effect, Error. via automated and improved documentation of the anesthesia dispensation DISPENSATION. A relaxation of law for the benefit or advantage of an individual. In the United States, no power exists, except in the legislature, to dispense with law, and then it is not so much a dispensation as a change of the law. record. With the average operating room operating room n. Abbr. OR A room equipped for performing surgical operations. generating 16 documents per surgical case, a fully automated record provides caregivers with access to complete and consistent information. The addition of this new capability enables caregivers to make more informed decisions and avoid costly case delays or cancellations due to lack of information. Anesthesia Documentation is offered through a strategic agreement with DocuSys, Inc., a digital medical solutions company. Under the agreement, McKesson will private-label and offer the DocuSys Anesthesia Information System as an integrated, value-added module of Horizon Surgical Manager. McKesson will also provide integration between Anesthesia Documentation and other McKesson surgical services solutions where appropriate. One organization that has already realized significant benefits from Anesthesia Documentation is St. Vincent's Hospital Hospital:
per·i·op·er·a·tive adj. information management system. "The digital anesthesia record anesthesia record n. A written account of drugs administered, procedures undertaken, and cardiovascular responses observed during the course of surgical or obstetrical anesthesia. eliminates illegible il·leg·i·ble adj. Not legible or decipherable. il·leg  i·bil handwriting, improves the transfer of information when relieving and supervising, and provides fast, accurate documentation of the critical care we provide our patients," said St. Vincent's Chief of Anesthesiology anesthesiology (ăn'ĭsthē'zēŏl`əjē), branch of medicine concerned primarily with procedures for rendering patients insensitive to pain, and for supporting life systems under the strains of anesthesia and surgery. Scott E. Harper, M.D. Anesthesia Documentation leverages the power of Horizon Surgical Manager(TM), which enables optimal surgical services management by improving clinical staff workflow and enabling better sequencing of events and supply forecasts. When integrated and combined with solutions for enterprisewide scheduling and materials management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, , organizations have a powerful means to improve case time efficiencies, reduce total cost per procedure and improve patient outcomes. Currently, Horizon Surgical Manager and other McKesson solutions help to manage the resources of more than 10 million procedures for more than 12,000 surgical suites nationwide. "Anesthesia Documentation gives organizations a comprehensive electronic perioperative system that streamlines and improves documentation for better patient monitoring and higher-quality, safer patient care," said John Nunnelly, McKesson group president for resource management and home health. "This new solution enhances the value of Horizon Surgical Manager by enabling healthcare organizations to reduce variability of care and provide consistent, accurate documentation, which also facilitates regulatory compliance." "We are pleased and honored to be selected as McKesson's anesthesia software provider," said Robert Hanson Robert Hanson or ... Hansen or ... Hanssen may be:
An event that changes the way we think and act. -Andy Grove, Founder of Intel. Notes: For example, the fall of the Berlin Wall was an inflection point in global politics and the commercialization of the Internet was an inflection point in technology. in our quest for Verb 1. quest for - go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby" quest after, go after, pursue look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the leadership in the anesthesia information and medication management arena." About DocuSys DocuSys, a digital medical solutions company, designs and markets the first Anesthesia Information System to merge clinical information with intravenous (IV) medication management. The system incorporates an IV drug monitor, DocuJect(R), the DocuSys information system, DocuSafe(R), the system's pharmacy workstation, DocuRx(R), and a Web-based system, DocuView(TM), which serves as the entry point for the patient's history and physical and documents the patient's flow and treatments through the perioperative system. For information on DocuSys and its products, visit the company's Web site at http://www.docusys.net. About McKesson McKesson Information Solutions is part of McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 20 healthcare services and information technology company. McKesson is dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes and improving the quality and safety of patient care. Over the course of its 170-year history, McKesson has grown to provide pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across the spectrum of care; healthcare information technology for hospitals, homecare and payors; hospital and retail pharmacy automation; and services for manufacturers and payors designed to improve outcomes for patients. For more information, visit us at www.mckesson.com. |
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