Information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that Shands HealthCare has selected its Micromedex CareNotes System as a key component of its ongoing effort to improve patient education. Shands is a not-for-profit healthcare system affiliated with the University of Florida and its Health Science Center campuses in Gainesville and Jacksonville. It includes eight Shands hospitals and two home health agencies.
Carenotes provides more than 6,000 customisable documents covering general care, pre- and after- care, inpatient care, drug notes and hospital discharge instructions. The documents are available in English and Spanish and are written for a sixth- to eighth-grade reading level.
Shands will use CareNotes to provide patients with easy-to-understand information about all aspects of their care and health - and to meet patient education guidelines of the Joint Commission and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. It reportedly opted for CareNotes over other vendors because of the breadth of content and the specialty topics that are included, such as transplants.
