SwedishAmerican Health System Chooses ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support
Order Set Solution will Accelerate Development, Deployment of Evidenced-based Medicine Tools within Advanced Clinical Information System Applications
Minneapolis, MN (October 19, 2009) – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that SwedishAmerican Health System has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution for its subsidiary, SwedishAmerican Hospital.
A 333-bed, full-service, non-profit teaching hospital serving the greater Rockford region, northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, SwedishAmerican is affiliated with the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Nationally recognized for quality and clinical excellence, SwedishAmerican Hospital will use ProVation Order Sets’ innovative technology, workflow tools and UpToDate clinical content and decision support to automate the creation, maintenance and deployment of evidence-based order sets.
“Accelerating development of evidence-based order sets is integral to SwedishAmerican’s focus on leveraging technology to advance the practice of evidence-based medicine. Creating tight integration of our advanced information system tools at SwedishAmerican will help assure the highest level of quality when delivering patient care. We are excited about working with Wolters Kluwer Health on this
important project,” said Phil Wasson, FACHE, Vice President and CIO of TriRivers Health Partners, a joint IT venture of SwedishAmerican Health System and FHN, based in Freeport, IL. “ProVation Order Sets provide the tools and trusted medical content necessary for a more efficient authoring and review process. They also enable integration of order sets into CPOE, delivering the point-of-care decision
support that is critical to achieving meaningful use of health IT.”
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, cliniciandesigned 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.
“Our physicians have long trusted UpToDate to guide and support their care decisions, so access to its superior medical evidence during the order set development process played a significant role in the selection of ProVation Order Sets,” said Pamela Wetzel, M.D., Director of Medical Staff Affairs, SwedishAmerican.
“Equally important,” she continued, “is the fact that once order sets are fully deployed they will also be integrated into our advanced clinical systems and be linked to UpToDate’s intuitive clinical decision support.”
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.
“SwedishAmerican has an outstanding reputation for providing high quality care, as evidenced by such prestigious honors as the Top 100 Hospital Quality and Distinguished Hospital awards,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “We are pleased that they have chosen Wolters Kluwer Health and ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to help them advance the practice of evidence-based medicine and demonstrate meaningful use of
HIT.”
About SwedishAmerican Health System
Headquartered in Rockford, Illinois, SwedishAmerican Health System serves 12 counties in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Care is provided through a 333-bed, full-service, non-profit teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Illinois College of Medicine, a medical center offering services to Belvidere and Boone, Western McHenry, and Northern DeKalb Counties, a network of 14 primary care
and multi-specialty clinics, and the region's largest home health care agency. Further information is
available at www.swedishamerican.org.
About TriRivers Health Partners
Located in North Central Illinois, TriRivers Health Partners (Rockford, IL) is a joint venture Healthcare Information Technology Organization that is jointly sponsored by SwedishAmerican Health System in Rockford, IL and FHN (formerly “Freeport Health Network”) in Freeport, IL. This innovative venture allows the two organizations to share infrastructure and staffing for Help Desk/Desktop Support,
Technical Services, Operations Support, Data Management functions, and to evaluate and develop significant technologies including TriLightNET TeleHealth Communications, a regional fiber optic network dedicated to serving health care, education and other public entities. Further information is available at www.tririvers.org.
About Wolters Kluwer Health
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Contact
Laura Gilbert
Director, Marketing Communications
Clinical Solutions Division
Wolters Kluwer Health
612-313-1506
laura.gilbert@wolterskluwer.com