MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Southwest Washington Medical Center has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as its electronic order set solution. The award-winning facility will utilizes ProVation Order Sets to automate the creation, maintenance and deployment of evidence-based order sets.
Located in Vancouver, Wash., the 442-bed not-for-profit Southwest Washington Medical Center is the flagship provider in the network of healthcare services that make up Southwest Washington Health System. Recognized six times as a 100 Top Hospital™, Southwest Washington was recently named by SC Magazine as a finalist in the 2010 SC Awards for outstanding achievement in IT security. The facility is also a voluntary participant in the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), as well as partnerships with quality agencies including the Joint Commission, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) patient perspective survey.
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 clinicians.
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.
“Southwest Washington Medical Center is an organization that focuses heavily on providing its community with the highest quality care possible, as evidenced by its numerous national recognitions and its participation in leading quality initiatives,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “That is why we are particularly pleased that Southwest Washington has chosen ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to advance its mission of emphasizing clinical and service quality while promoting accessible and affordable care.”
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.
Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal, and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer had 2008 annual revenues of €3.4 billion ($4.9 billion), employs approximately 20,000 people worldwide, and maintains operations in<
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