St. Louis Children's Goes Live With MetaVision Anesthesia Information Management System
By Wendy Grafius, contributing writer
St. Louis Children’s expects positive clinical outcomes, financial gains
BJC HealthCare, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit healthcare organizations, recently went live with iMDsoft’s MetaVision Anesthesia Information Management System in 114 beds of the perioperative environment at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Serving the St. Louis metropolitan area and a six-state primary service region, St. Louis Children’s is the pediatric teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine with 258 beds and is ranked 6th in U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Children’s Hospitals survey.
Looking to standardize documentation and case processes in its network of 13 hospitals and other locations which serve residents of the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois, and mid-Missouri areas, BJC rolled-out the MetaVision system in 2009 in its operating rooms, Orthopedic Center, Center for Advanced Medicine, nurse pre-op and post-op local sedation (hybrid) room, offsite Remote/ECT site, and Center for Preoperative Assessment and Planning (CPAP). In 2012, MetaVision was installed at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, a 1,158-bed primary adult teaching hospital, which is also consistently ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals. Highly adaptable, MetaVision is interoperable, provides exceptional decision support tools, and is easily deployed across multiple locations for uniformity, best practices, and compliance.
The MetaVision Anesthesia Information Management System electronically documents clinical care provided by an anesthesia provider, from pre-op to intra-op to recovery. Vital signs, fluid balance, and other clinical data are entered into the system to document patient status, resulting in improved care and increased enforcement of protocol and regulatory requirements. Patient safety and quality initiative reports are easily generated for Surgical Site Infection (SSI) data and Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) data. Additionally, MetaVision interfaces with billing systems, producing a complete anesthesia record of events, medications, and procedures. Both hospital and professional fees are accurately tracked for billing purposes.
According to David Sides, CEO of iMDsoft, the implementation of MetaVision at St. Louis Children’s Hospital is expected to aid in “positive clinical outcomes, as well as financial gains in the areas of pay-per-performance initiatives, billing, and operations.”
Source: iMDsoft