Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Physical Therapy (PT) has joined Respiratory Therapy (RT) as the second major non-nursing discipline added to Lippincott Procedures, the leading clinical procedures software used by nurses and other clinicians at the point-of-care. The expansion makes Lippincott Procedures the first-to-market clinical procedures solution for physical therapy.
More than 50 new procedures are being added — all tailored to meet the needs of hospital-based physical therapists and PT departments. This enhancement allows a larger group of allied health clinicians as well as nurses to use Lippincott Procedures to access and maintain all of their institutionally mandated clinical procedures.
All of Lippincott Procedures' evidence-based content is clinically reviewed and fully updated on an annual basis, allowing institutions to trust that their clinicians are referencing current EBP information that has been fully vetted by clinical experts. Institutions also have the ability to customize each procedure to meet organization-specific guidelines, add new procedures in an existing discipline, or add other disciplines to help standardize care across an entire institution.
The first set of PT-related procedures is available immediately with the remainder to be available in the April quarterly software update.
Lippincott Procedures gives clinicians accurate, step-by-step guidance for more than 1,700 evidence-based procedures. Institutions gain benefit from the product both with clinicians using the software at the point-of-care, and also through functionality that allows procedures to be assigned as courses, tests given for content understanding, and skills checklists used to ensure practice competence.
Part of the Lippincott Solutions product suite, Lippincott Procedures is available as a group subscription to hospitals and other healthcare facilities. The product is accessible from any Internet-enabled device including PCs and mobile devices including iPad and Android tablets as well as an iPad app.
