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Why Wellsoft

Benefits of Wellsoft EDIS

Benefits to Clinicians  |  Benefits to Administrators 

Benefits to Financial Officers

Benefits to Information Systems  |  Benefits to Patients

 

Benefits to Clinicians

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Saves Time

 • Shows the disposition and location of the patient at all times
• Provides instant access to the chart
• Decreases turnaround times (TAT)
• Eliminates manual and duplicate orders and results
• Streamlines patient flow using bedside registration and documentation
• Enables multiple staff members to access the chart simultaneously
• Instantly retrieves information on previous visits
• Automatically prints charts, prescriptions and specimen labels
• Provides a list of referral physicians, addresses and directions
• Eliminates manual data entry
1. Increased patient throughput
2. Eliminates Bottlenecks
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Eliminates 30%-40% of nurse and physician time spent on non-care activities i.e.: looking for charts, tracking down lab results, mobilizing staff, and repeatedly recording information that someone else has already recorded

4. Provides accurate, legible and timely orders and results

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 Applying technology and streamlining processes can help reduce overcrowding by making emergency departments more efficient

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..... Improves Communication
• Provides Clinicians access to information throughout the department via:
  · Patient Tracking Display
· Clinical Documentation
· Orders and Results
• Eliminates “lost” patients
• Admissions tracking eliminates “forgotten” admissions
• Enables staff to easily prioritize tasks
• Reduces departmental noise
• Provides mission critical reliability
• Sharing of ”complete” medical record

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Reduces Documentation Costs
• Provides documentation templates that ensure CMS compliance
• Integrates voice recognition and eliminates transcription and dictation
• Increases efficiency with bedside documentation
1. 100% electronic user-friendly clinical documentation
2. Eliminates coding variability, applying CMS coding rules precisely and consistently
3. Eliminates un-billable charts due to illegibility or lack of signatures

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..... Simplifies Reporting
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Eliminates manual data collection
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Automatically generates department log
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Reports on patient load enable more accurate staffing

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Benefits to Administrators

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..... Increases Patient Satisfaction
 • Decreases waiting times and length of stay
 • Fewer elopements, walk outs, AMAs
 • Decreases noise
 • Department viewed as state of the art
1. Decreased TAT
2. Decreased LWBS
3. Decreased Door to Doc
4. Decreased time on Q & A
5. Reduced patient wait time and length of stay

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..... Decreases Liability
• Printed discharge instructions and prescriptions reduce hospital liability
• Eliminates “lost” patients
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Unresolved issues tracking eliminates potential litigation
1. Decreased documentation omissions
2. Increased patient safety
3. Legible documentation

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..... Increases Accountability
 • Reports help focus on department inefficiencies
• Automatic reporting provides clear, meaningful statistics
1. ED patient information will be on one system
2. Resource for Quality Management, Risk Management, Strategic Planning & Infection Control

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..... Enhances Hospital Image
 • Positive publicity is generated in a high visibility department
• Assists in attracting and retaining top notch clinicians
• Boosts staff morale
• Customer Service is improved & patient volumes are increased, making the hospital more  profitable

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..... Increased Multi-level Security
• Multi-level read/write security
• Automatic ‘authoring’ of nursing and physician documentation
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Improved HIPAA compliance

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Benefits to Financial Officers

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..... Automatic Facility Charging
 • Objective quantification of Level of Service
• Timely coding for billing
• Fewer dropped charges
• Customizable to meet institutional preferences

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..... Report Capabilities
• Eliminates manual data collection
• Monitor bell distribution of levels of service
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Monitor outstanding, incomplete charts

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Benefits to Information Systems

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..... Ease of Installation
 • Standard platform – Win 2000/XP
• Standard hardware – Intel-based PCs utilized for workstations & servers
• LAN/WAN
• Industry standard Oracle database
• HL7 Interfaces – via TCP/IP, FTP, flat file
• Experienced Project Manager guides each implementation
• Complete on site user training
• Citrix / thin client option
• Highly configurable
1. Customizations completed in a matter of minutes
2. Interfaces with all major Hospital Information Systems
3. Mission Critical Reliability

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..... Maintenance
 • Remote updating and troubleshooting via PC Anywhere
• Integrated system diagnostics
• Bandwidth throttling
• Integrated back-ups without system downtime

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..... Support
 • 24/7 support, guaranteed 15 minute response time
• Custom reports and configurations handled with quick turnaround
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System in use for 5+ years at many sites nationally

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Benefits to Patients
..... Improves Quality of Care
 • Provides quality discharge instructions, prescriptions and work/school releases
• Decreases departmental noise
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Department viewed as state-of-the-art facility

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..... Increases Patient Satisfaction
 • Decreases waiting times
• Decreases length of stay