Wolters Kluwer, Health has announced that Blessing Health System (Blessing), an integrated health system in Quincy, Illinois, has selected POC AdvisorTM , to quickly identify and best care for patients with sepsis or sepsis shock.
By analyzing patient data in real-time and transforming it into actionable guidance, POC Advisor empowers clinicians to rapidly respond to sepsis symptoms and risk to make the most effective clinical decisions at the right time. The move expands Blessing's adoption of Wolters Kluwer's clinical surveillance suite by adding POC Advisor to its Sentri7 infection prevention and pharmacy surveillance solutions.
POC Advisor is in use at Blessing Hospital, the health system’s acute care hospital in Quincy, IL, and at its critical-access hospital in Pittsfield, IL, Illini Community Hospital.
Blessing employs a collaborative approach to sepsis symptom detection and management with various care settings across the health system. Historically, this process was largely retrospective and relied on a multi-disciplinary group of clinicians to review cases, track data, and outcomes, and stay up to date on evolving guidelines and protocols for sepsis management. Now with a sepsis coordinator on board using POC Advisor's centralized patient monitor and advanced analytics capabilities, Blessing can streamline manual, time-intensive processes. This sepsis surveillance solution monitors patients in real-time to better identify and alert on sepsis cases allowing clinicians to intervene earlier.
At Blessing, many providers rely on documenting patient conditions in text notes; POC Advisor's natural language processing (NLP) scours clinical notes for critical information missing from standardized EHR data that might indicate sepsis. Coupled with evidence-based recommendations for the treatment of sepsis, POC Advisor helps improve patient outcomes by ensuring the delivery of bundle care components.
Wolters Kluwer's team of clinical and informaticist experts supports the implementation. It optimizes the use of POC Advisor by developing team workflows, building and maintaining the clinical rules that drive sepsis alerts, and providing detailed case reviews to clinical teams.
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