Horizon Health Summary™ is the “source of truth” for patient longitudinal clinical information across your health care enterprise and episodes of care. It helps manage the complexity of care collaboration using industry standard terminologies for codification of data, facilitating medication reconciliation and patient safety.

While other vendors support one form of coding, Horizon Health Summary supports multiple clinical and financial standards from national and international organizations for multidisciplinary use such as SNOMED CT, ICD, CPT, HCPCS, LOINC, DSM and others. In addition, Horizon Health Summary provides relationships between terminologies so that data can be used for clinical and financial purposes. For example SNOMED CT clinical concepts are mapped to ICD and CPT codes. A Clinical Terminology Manager is provided for customers to maintain flexibility with standard mappings.

Benefits

Codification using industry standard terminologies helps organizations:

• Collaborate and share data across the enterprise between settings with a clinical or financial focus of data:
  • Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED CT)
  • Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
  • International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9 (today),  ICD-10 (future)
  • Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)
• Give nurses more time to care by providing easy access to diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation standards:
  • North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International (NANDA)
  • Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)
  • Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)
• Aid mental health collaboration and reimbursement via standard diagnostic codes
  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV)
• Provide for interoperability and future exchange of electronic health records and laboratory results outside the enterprise through use of data standards.

Horizon Health Summary ensures accurate history for patient safety and reporting by:

• Allowing clinicians to enter and review patient clinical information as part of their application workflow using familiar terms and concepts
• Allowing information to be shared across the enterprise and episodes of care
• Automatically updating new home medications from the patient’s hospital medication reconciliation discharge review
• Providing a tool for a guided admission interview that streamlines the capture and confirmation of patient clinical information in a single user interface
• Using branching logic to provide efficiencies that can accelerate admission throughput
• Using industry standard clinical and financial terminologies with relationships and mappings for use across care settings 

Horizon Health Summary features integrated enterprise access to McKesson’s world-class Horizon Architecture™, known for:

• Reliability and performance across care settings
• An agile and cost-effective platform that is built for what’s next
• Reduced total cost of ownership (use of Linux allows health care providers to save 50% to 60% of their capital expense budgets)