The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier firm engaged in developing clinical practice guidelines for healthcare, has announced that it will be the clinical content source for patient care plans and clinical documentation at multiple hospitals of Milwaukee-based Froedtert & Community Health. The Wisconsin hospital group is composed of Froedtert Hospital, the major teaching hospital of the Medical College of Wisconsin; Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls; and St. Joseph’s Hospital in West Bend.
Froedtert & Community Health began implementation of the inpatient Epic EHR in 2009. As part of phase two planning for the inpatient clinical documentation in 2009, a task force of interdisciplinary professionals from Froedtert, Community Memorial and St. Joseph’s launched a collaborative decision making process to choose the clinical content source for its inpatient care plans. The hospital system’s Epic Executive Management Committee approved the CPRMC recommendation in December 2009.
By partnering with CPMRC to implement standardised evidence based clinical content for care plans and documentation of professional services, these hospitals seek to advance evidence-based interdisciplinary care and collaboration, address requirements of meaningful use and enhance the patient experience. CPMRC’s Point of Care Integrated Solutions, which will serve as content sources for Froedtert & Community Health’s evidence-based interdisciplinary care plans, features patient profile/history/admission assessment, patient plan of care, clinical practice guidelines, patient assessments and interventions, outcome evaluation, professional exchange, and specific content for newborn, neonatal ICU, pediatric, OB, adult and geriatric populations.
Froedtert & Community Health professionals were also eager to participate in CPMRC’s 25-year-old International Healthcare Consortium, where close to 300 hospital members implement an innovative interdisciplinary practice framework across multiple care settings through interdisciplinary teams. The CPMRC consortium recently received the 2010 National Academies of Practice Interdisciplinary Group Recognition Award.
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