Healthcare information service provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced the general availability of its integration interface between Epic and ProVation Care Plans. Developed in collaboration with Duke University Health System, the interface seeks to enable hospitals to create and customise care plans via the ProVation software and then make finished care plans available in the Epic inpatient clinical platform.
The ProVation Care Plans is projected as a software solution for efficient interdisciplinary care plan creation, customisation and maintenance. By offering best-in-class care plans derived from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, along with embedded links to the latest industry evidence, performance measures and quality indicators, the software is claimed to provide hospitals with the ability to define and maintain a personalised care plans library. Further, the solution helps drive clinical consensus on standards of care, while adhering to industry-accepted nursing and medical diagnoses, goals and interventions.
Since ProVation's platform is built using structured data, the process of importing care plans into Epic is stated to be greatly simplified. Care plan problems, interventions, goals, narratives and associated evidence links come across in the import, as do patient education teaching topics. Additionally, the import seeks to ensure that only changed items are added to the EMR database versus a complete overwrite of the care plans content. The simple data migration technology streamlines the transfer of content from ProVation to the EMR, ensuring that care plans are consistent and accurate.
Driven by evidence including UpToDate, Clin-eguide and Ovid MEDLINE, ProVation Care Plans are said to ensure that interdisciplinary care teams have the information they need to enhance practice and demonstrate compliance with credentialing and standards for Joint Commission and other regulatory bodies. Created in partnership with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ProVation Care Plans provides access to a range of Wolters Kluwer Health content, abstracts and full-text articles.
