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Signature Healthcare Selects ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, to Deliver Point-of-Care Access to Evidence-Based Order Sets, Robust Clinical Decision Support Tools


10/15/09

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution. In addition to automating development, ProVation Order Sets will provide clinicians at the award-winning facility with point-of-care access to evidence-based order sets and industry leading clinical decision support tools to advance the practice of evidence-based medicine.
 
“Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital prides itself on the quality of care we provide our patients,” said Dr. Marc Greenwald, Chief of Medicine, Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital. “The addition of ProVation Order Sets will enhance our care delivery system and facilitate improvements in clinical performance, quality, patient safety and regulatory compliance.”
 
At Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, a 268-bed not-for-profit teaching hospital based in Brockton, MA, ProVation Order Sets will streamline and accelerate the order set authoring, review and maintenance processes. The solution will also be integrated with the hospital’s CPOE system, providing clinicians with seamless point-of-care access to evidence-based order sets, links to supporting literature and other clinical content, and robust clinical decision support tools.
 
“ProVation Order Sets allow us to maximize our investment in CPOE by empowering our clinicians to make the best decisions for the best patient outcomes,” said Craig Fletcher, Chief Information Officer, Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital. “By automating the authoring and management process and providing easy access to trusted supporting evidence, we believe ProVation Order Sets will also facilitate greater physician adoption of order sets and streamline clinician workflow.”
 
ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an actionable, 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 offers automatic linking to evidence from a wide range of sources, including UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 360,000 physicians.
 
UpToDate, a clinical decision support tool, covers more than 7,700 topics in 14 medical specialties, more than 80,000 pages of text and graphics, and 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, ProVation Order Sets offers the flexibility to integrate links to additional clinical resources based upon client needs. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets features vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow it to be easily integrated into any facility or vendor EMR.
 
“Together, ProVation Order Sets and UptoDate form the backbone of an institution’s clinical decision support system, improving patient care and health outcomes through easy access to medical evidence and standardized care plans,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “Signature Healthcare Brockton is already a recognized leader in patient care. We are pleased to partner with them in the continued delivery of award-winning care.”


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