Clinical Intelligence Solution Helps Improve Patient Care With Real-Time Status of Adherence to Clinical Quality Measures
Like all healthcare systems today, your organization is faced with unprecedented scrutiny on the quality of care you provide, from regulatory and reimbursement agencies to the public in your community. There is no shortage of evidence-based guidelines and best practices to follow in pursuit of clinical quality measures. Yet most organizations still struggle to achieve consistent process adherence. Your clinicians know what to do for patients, but there can be too much to remember and think about, especially for quality bundles that include multi-step processes and time-bound tasks.
Get Real-time Feedback on Clinical Quality Improvement
Clinical quality improvement starts at the bedside. Horizon Quality Monitor™ gives your clinicians real-time feedback on adherence to all process components of a specific quality bundle for a specific patient. Simply put, your entire care team can see whether the care being delivered is tracking to the defined clinical quality bundle while the patient is still in the hospital. This visibility greatly reduces the chance that metrics may be missed.
Eliminate Extra Clinical Documentation for Clinicians
Using Horizon Quality Monitor is as easy as looking at the screen, which displays the status of process components in a simple red-yellow-green “stoplight” view. Your clinicians do not have to do any additional documentation or data entry because Horizon Quality Monitor is applying logic behind the scenes to the work they are already doing and, as a byproduct, displaying progress relative to the care standard.
How Horizon Quality Monitor Works
The Horizon Quality Monitor solution uses embedded logic to analyze charting and orders already produced in the normal course of practice and then displays adherence to the best practice standards of care, such as those for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention and stroke treatment. The system gathers data elements from lab results and the following McKesson solutions:
- Horizon Expert Documentation™ — charting
- Horizon Expert Orders™ or Horizon Order Management™ — orders
- Horizon Admin-Rx™ — medication administration data
Benefits
- Improves quality of care
- Increases patient safety
- Improves adherence to best practice standards
- Enhances communication among the care team
- Increases timeliness of care documentation
Clinical Enterprise Intelligence – Get the Big Picture
Your clinical quality measures span many levels and stakeholders – so does McKesson’s comprehensive strategy for helping you achieve them. Horizon Quality Monitor provides real-time, micro-level performance surveillance of condition-specific quality measures. By giving your clinicians patient-specific, immediate feedback on compliance, Horizon Quality Monitor plays a vital role in McKesson’s clinical intelligence strategy. Our strategy comprises a continuum of quality improvement solutions including macro-level surveillance of patient and room status, as well as a full suite of performance measurement capabilities that provide multiple levels of analysis and comparative benchmarking.
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