Minneapolis, MN (November 16, 2009) – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Tufts Medical Center has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, to automate the creation, maintenance and system-wide deployment of evidence-based order sets.
Tufts Medical Center, a 451-bed academic medical center that is home to both a full-service hospital for adults and Floating Hospital for Children, will also serve as a reference site for the electronic order set solution. Located in Boston, the Medical Center is also the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine.
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.
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.
“Tufts Medical Center has a rich tradition of healthcare innovation, in particular leveraging technologies to identify patient care strategies that minimize unnecessary tests and procedures, increase quality and safety, and decrease costs,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “We are pleased that they have chosen to implement ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to advance those strategies through the expanded practice of evidence-based medicine.”
About Wolters Kluwer Health
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