Minneapolis, MN (June 29, 2010) – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Southern Ohio Medical Center has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets.
Located in Portsmouth, Ohio, the 222-bed Southern Ohio Medical Center provides emergency and surgical care, as well as a wide range of other inpatient and outpatient services. A Joint Commission accredited facility, Southern Ohio has received top honors for its commitment to high standards of care. It was the first hospital in the tri-state region to achieve the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet designation recognizing national excellence in nursing, and is among just 4 percent of U.S. hospitals to receive the Voluntary Protection Program Star Designation, the national gold standard for safety and health. It has also been recognized three times as a Fortune 100 “Best Place to Work” and has ranked among Ohio’s top employers for five consecutive years.
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, one of ProVation Order Sets’ primary values is the continuous updates to clinical content and medical evidence, including direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 360,000 clinicians.
Central to this capability is the One Click Updates tool, which leverages UpToDate’s Practice Changing Updates, which highlights new recommendations that could potentially change usual clinical practice. Enabled by a unique, structured approach to data management, One Click Updates alerts end users to evidence that may trigger the need to modify particular order sets. It then enables users to review recommended updates and apply them in a single step across multiple order sets.
UpToDate covers more than 7,700 topics in 15 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.
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 flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.
“Southern Ohio Medical Center is an organization dedicated to delivering and sustaining exceptional quality of care,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “We are pleased that they have chosen ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to further this mission.”
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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