Minneapolis, MN (November 9, 2009) – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that OhioHealth has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, to automate the creation, maintenance and deployment of evidence-based order sets. ProVation Order Sets will be used by the nationally recognized health system’s eight member hospitals, two of which are ranked by U.S. News and World Report as among America’s best: Grant Medical Center and Riverside Methodist Hospita.
“As part of our commitment to delivering extraordinary healthcare, OhioHealth is dedicated to advancing the practice of evidence-based medicine. Accomplishing this requires accelerating the development and point-of-care adoption of standardized order sets across our member facilities,” said OhioHealth Chief Medical Officer Bruce Vanderhoff, M.D. “ProVation Order Sets deliver the authoring and collaboration tools, as well as the quality medical content and nationally recognized best practice guidelines, necessary to speed order set creation and achieve system-wide consensus.”
ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an innovative, customizable order set authoring and management solution that streamlines the delivery of standardized care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical’s award-winning 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.
“While ease-of-use and the underlying technology were important factors in our selection of ProVation Order Sets, it was the integration with UpToDate that was perhaps the most critical,” said Mrunal Shah, M.D., ABFM, Vice President, Physician Technology Services, OhioHealth Information Services. “UpToDate has been a tremendous resource for the OhioHealth clinical community. Having that caliber of medical evidence backing the order sets developed with ProVation Order Sets will enhance physician confidence in and acceptance of these valuable clinical decision support tools.”
UpToDate covers more than 7,700 topics in 14 medical specialties and includes more than 79,000 pages of text and graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 260,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.
In addition to integrated links to
UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offer the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets feature vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for easy integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.
“OhioHealth is nationally recognized for the quality of care it provides to its community. We are proud that they have selected ProVation Order Sets to help them develop and deploy the evidence-based order sets that will further enhance that quality though system-wide standardization of care,” said
Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions.
He continued: “Evidence-based order sets and clinical decision support are central to achieving ‘meaningful use’ qualifications under the HITECH Act and to advancing the practice of evidence-based medicine. With its clinician-designed technology platform, superior medical content and intuitive decision support, ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, integrate seamlessly into care processes to enhance quality, safety and outcomes.”
About Wolters Kluwer Health
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