MINNEAPOLIS, MN – November 3 , 2009 – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Cortland Regional Medical Center (CRMS) has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, to automate the creation, maintenance and system-wide deployment of evidence-based order sets.
Based in Cortland, NY, CRMC has been providing Cortland and its seven surrounding counties with quality healthcare for 115 years. CRMC has earned a national reputation of excellence for its quality of care, including receipt of the Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval.
ProVation Order Sets,
powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customizable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardized care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance
. Built upon ProVation Medical’s award-winning, clinician-designed technology platform, ProVation Order Sets offer automatic linking to the superior clinical decision support content of UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 360,000 physicians.
UpToDate covers more than 7,700 topics in 14 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text and graphics, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 260,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.
“CRMC has earned a reputation for excellence in the quality of care it provides to its community, and prides itself on deployment of technology that is often more advanced that that found at larger medical facilities,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “We are pleased that CRMC has chosen Wolters Kluwer Health and ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support to further enhance its use of technology to improve the quality and safety of care it provides.”
About Wolters Kluwer Health
Wolters Kluwer Health (Philadelphia, PA) is a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and
Facts & Comparisons®; and electronic information providers, such as
Ovid®,
UpToDate®,
Medi-Span® and
ProVation® Medical.
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