The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced the release of an e-book that provides a road-map for hospitals seeking to unlock and leverage critical patient data needed to improve performance and succeed in the value-based reimbursement landscape. The complementary guide—Clinical Decision Support: Unlocking and Leveraging EMR Data to Optimize Care, Quality and Revenue—reveals how intelligent clinical decision support (CDS) can equip providers with evidence-based recommendations and customised protocols at the point of care to quickly identify gaps in care and make better decisions.
A focal point of national regulatory movements, point of care CDS technology has been identified as a critical component to standardizing care, improving clinical outcomes and lowering costs. Up to 5.5 percent of a hospital's Medicare reimbursement is currently tied to quality metrics, covering such performance areas as the incidence of healthcare-associated infections and readmissions rates. Last year, 1 in 7 hospitals realized a reduction in reimbursement rates due to these evolving risk-bearing arrangements.
CDS technology has proven to help reduce medication errors and misdiagnoses, while facilitating prioritization of care. On the financial front, CDS helps hospitals reduce unnecessary imaging, control medication costs and reduce costs associated with adverse drug events. Specifically, the e-book demonstrates how clinical surveillance systems help extend the value of EMR investments by aggregating critical patient information with industry-leading, evidence-based content and converting it into intelligent and measurable guidance for clinicians across multiple platforms.
The e-book also introduces the Sentri7® surveillance system, a clinical decision support application used by more than 600 hospitals to monitor more than 1 million patients each day. Clinical surveillance tools like Sentri7 simplify monitoring of multiple data streams, enable rapid identification of at-risk patients, facilitate evidence-based clinical decision-making and streamline reporting to management and stakeholders.
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