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Hunterdon Medical Center Selects Order Set Solution from Thomson Healthcare to Standardize Care Delivery
Order Set Solution's multiple integration platforms enable hospitals to implement evidence-based decision support tools that improve patient outcomes.
Greenwood Village, Colo.
Thomson Healthcare, part of the Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC)
and the leading provider of healthcare decision support solutions to
improve clinical and business performance outcomes, today announced that
Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J., is implementing its Order Set
Solution. The unique Order Set application improves a hospital’s
performance management in the medication care delivery and disease
management process by providing evidence-based recommendations.
"The Thomson Healthcare Order Set Solution will provide our physicians with
customizable order sets written with the best available medical evidence in
compliance with national quality and regulatory standards, clinical
practice guidelines and evidence ratings for each disease state," said
Glenn Mamary, chief information officer, Hunterdon Medical Center. "As a
six-year customer of Thomson Healthcare evidence-based content, we've
experienced first hand its benefits including reduced errors derived from
point-of-care decision support tools integrated with daily workflow.
We chose this Order Set Solution to help our clinicians standardize
the continuity of care to achieve our community hospital’s goal of
delivering safer healthcare services to our patients."
The Order Set Solution is an evidence-based library of order sets covering
the most frequent hospital and emergency department diagnoses and
procedures. The order set templates link to clinically consistent
disease, lab and drug referential information from Thomson Healthcare
updated with the latest evidence by a team of practicing physicians and
pharmacists.
Hunterdon Medical Center is implementing the Order Set Solution across its
178-bed facility. Additionally, Hunterdon is receiving the Thomson
Knowledge Management Tool, which manages, customizes and exports the order
sets and the order item catalog to a variety of platforms: paper,
clinician Web portal, intranet, Internet, or health information system with
computerized physician order entry (CPOE).
"Many hospitals struggle to create and maintain their own orders, which is
oftentimes a much larger project exceeding their expectations," said
William "B.J." Lawson, M.D., vice president of Client Solutions at Thomson
Healthcare. "Thomson Healthcare provides the in-depth clinical expertise to
help hospitals gain consensus and manage order set content. And, because
the order sets are evidence-based, clinicians are assured they have the
most accurate and authoritative information."
Continuing, Lawson said, "The Order Set Solution is built for integration
and flexible enough to support whatever healthcare information system is
used by the hospital. We are proud to partner with Hunterdon Medical
Center in making this one-of-a-kind resource an invaluable part of their
integrated knowledge for physicians."
Add-on components for the Order Set Solution include: An order catalog with
medical coding to facilitate mapping and integration to a hospital CPOE
system; Thomson Professional Services for solution implementation; and
built-in Boolean logic to assist with the physician’s choice of the most
appropriate order item. Executable orders will be available on mobile
devices this year.
For more information about the Order Set Solution, visit http://www.micromedex.com/products/ordersets/.
About Hunterdon Medical Center
Hunterdon Medical Center, acknowledged as a leader in developing
comprehensive medical and health care services, is a 178-bed non-profit
community hospital. Our goal is to meet the needs with health care
that is compassionate and effective. We provide a full range of
preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic inpatient and outpatient hospital
and community health services. Our staff is committed to providing
the highest quality care to our patients. Hunterdon Medical Center is
licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health, and accredited by the
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
Visit www.hunterdonhealthcare.org for more
information.
About Thomson Healthcare
Thomson Healthcare is the leading provider of integrated decision support
solutions that help healthcare organizations improve clinical and business
performance. By combining real-time access to patient-specific information
and evidence-based care recommendations with powerful benchmarking and
analytics, Thomson Healthcare’s solutions help providers drive actionable
results that improve profitability, growth, quality of care and patient
satisfaction. Thomson Healthcare is part of The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com). Thomson provides
value-added information, software tools and applications to more
professionals in healthcare, scientific research, law, tax, accounting, and
financial services. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New
York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
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