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Community Hospitals Compete to Demonstrate Benefits of CPOEMarch 01, 2010 |
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Top-performers earn recognition for improvements in patient care and outcomes At McKesson’s third annual “Celebrating CPOE Success Award” competition, Peninsula Regional Medical Center, a 358-bed hospital in Salisbury, Md., earned top honors for reducing errors related to high-risk medications. Citing the use of technology to support its focus on patient safety, the medical center achieved an 85% overall adoption rate for McKesson’s Horizon Expert Orders ™ computerized physician order entry (CPOE) solution. Peninsula Regional was one of multiple top-performing inpatient organizations to participate in the metric-based CPOE competition held in mid-February. Concord (New Hampshire) Hospital was named an award finalist for demonstrating significant improvements in inpatient diabetes care and management. An independent panel of industry experts selected the winners based on their use of CPOE to enhance clinical and financial results. Judges also took into consideration the methodology used to measure results, with the ultimate goal of identifying best practices and replicable models of CPOE success to drive a systems-based approach to quality improvements. “Demonstrating use of CPOE is critical for providers that plan to qualify for the HITECH meaningful use incentives in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” said Sunny Sanyal, president, McKesson Provider Technologies. “This year’s participants effectively demonstrated best practices for how community hospitals can achieve high levels of adoption and by extension, better outcomes.” Peninsula Regional won top honors for using Horizon Expert Orders to support patient safety improvements across its entire organization. As a result of using CPOE, Peninsula Regional was able to realize a reduced number of patients with elevated INR (International Normalized Ratio) for blood clotting time from greater than 20% to about 10% in a one-year period. Peninsula Regional also increased compliance with its heparin protocol by 60%, greatly improving anticoagulation management. The organization achieved a 19% reduction in adverse drug reactions with dilaudid, a highly overused and potentially dangerous narcotic medication. “The focus of our CPOE initiative has always been patient safety,” said Chris Snyder, D.O., chief medical informatics officer, Peninsula Regional. “As our CPOE adoption levels have increased, we’ve been able to make process changes and better use of information to enhance the quality of care we deliver.” Concord Hospital, a 230-bed regional medical center, was selected as a finalist for using CPOE to help caregivers improve and standardize inpatient diabetes management. With the right information readily available to clinicians, Concord reduced variation in care delivery that is expected to lead to better patient outcomes. The organization is deeply committed to continuous monitoring and improvement as it works toward meaningful use. Concord is McKesson’s first two-time CPOE award winner. The organization was recognized at the first CPOE competition for using CPOE to more easily identify patients at high-risk of pulmonary embolism. A panel of industry experts used a point scale to evaluate written entries and oral presentations. The CPOE contest judges included:
Moving forward, the Celebrating CPOE Success Award competition will become part of the McKesson Distinguished Achievement Awards program. The awards program is designed to recognize organizations across multiple healthcare sectors that demonstrate best practices in the use of McKesson IT products and services. Two previous CPOE competition winners will present at the HIMSS10 (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) annual conference in Atlanta March 1-4: Dr. Matt Sprunger, medical director of Clinical Informatics, Dupont Hospital, and Shari Schneider, vice president, IT Services, Lutheran Health Network (session 91); and Dr. Michael Zia, vice president, Medical Affairs and Quality, Decatur Memorial Hospital (session 108). McKesson will showcase the capabilities of its CPOE solution in McKesson Booth #7411, Hall B. About McKesson McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 15th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving the quality and safety of patient care. McKesson is the longest-operating company in healthcare today, marking its 175th anniversary last year. Over the course of its history, McKesson has grown by providing pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across the spectrum of care; healthcare information technology for hospitals, physicians, homecare and payors; hospital and retail pharmacy automation; and services for manufacturers and payors designed to improve outcomes for patients. For more information, visit http://www.mckesson.com/ .
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