Enterprise Scheduling Solutions > Surgery Management

The health care industry is changing. Increased competition is pushing providers to reduce costs, create new opportunities for growth, and retain and better serve patients. Operations face unrelenting scrutiny, there is increasing pressure to work electronically and find ways to integrate new and existing systems, and regulations require compliance with HIPAA and other standards.

Case Scheduling

• Schedule staff, equipment, physician office, specialty block, next available surgeon and surgeon block including online conflict checks
• Tracks procedure durations with runtime overrides

Physician Office Access

• Pre-operative assessment forms such as H&P, PAT and Consent
• Physician and privileged procedure lists ensure only privileged procedures are displayed for selected patients
• Schedule PAT and Surgery

Inter-Department Integration

• Electronic instantaneous alerts help PreAdmission testing nurses to properly prep the patient for surgery.
• Cancellation and reschedule alerts between the Surgery and PAT departments

Preference Card Management

• Complete preference card management capability including links to scheduling
• Case charge provides automatic links to case schedules, preference cards and charge codes Top

PACU & Procedure Information

• Patient vital signs, materials usage and discharge information
• Record PACU level, entry time, discharge time, PACU staff, complication codes comments, charge codes and amounts
• Track procedure details including staff assigned, post operative diagnosis details, complications codes, acuity codes and wound class

Anesthesia Module

• Provides an online record of equipment, supplies, drugs and personnel associated with the anesthesia portion of the case
• Documents Anesthesia Care Plan, patients physiological condition an reaction to drugs, medications or anesthesia agents

Pre, Intra and Post-Operative Documentation

• Prior to surgery store medication history, lab results, family history, personalized PAT forms, patient health forms and consent forms online
• Patient record grows as case progresses to include positioning, preparations, counts, diagnosis, medications and documentation of add-on cases
• Case times are broken into multiple segments including actual start times, end times and cause of delay
• Record information and care provided to patient immediately after surgery including staff assignments, materials usage, diagnosis and outcomes, recovery scores, vital signs and drug responses

Post-discharge Follow-up Module

• Keep an on-line record of follow-up questionnaires, surveys and outcomes measurements

Inventory Management

• Track non-disposable equipment used in surgical procedures
• Equipment tables can be easily downloaded form any electronic media and module allows for editing, adding and deleting equipment as required

Charge Capture

This component allow for the consolidation of all the surgery charges including surgery times, PACU times, anesthesia and surgery drugs and supplies extracted from the preference cards and the log book documentation into a single entity that can be easily edited. With an integrated HL7 interface, the charges can be sent to any financial system. The entire process eliminates all paper base charging enabling hospitals to bill in a timely manner for all their surgery procedures.