Compliance and Version Control Solutions
SMARTworks® Clinical Enterprise Services and Applications:
Case in Point
Read how one of the nation’s leading healthcare systems leveraged SMARTworks Clinical Enterprise to improve document version management and compliance across its six campuses while introducing greater accuracy, security and efficiency to its EMR.
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New approaches for addressing the Joint Commission's Core Measures, Health Literacy and Safety Goals
Compliance is difficult enough to manage in a single hospital or care facility. However, as the size of the healthcare system grows, the challenge becomes all the more daunting. The administrative burden of documenting regulatory compliance with local, state and federal regulations is huge. An American Hospital Association survey estimates that every hour of patient care results in 30 to 60 minutes of paperwork, depending on the setting.
Clearly, complete records and documentation are essential for patient safety and quality care. However, only by introducing technology, can the burden be lightened.
A Foundation for Compliance
Taylor Communication’s SMARTworks® Clinical Enterprise lays a foundation for compliant documentation when the patient first enters the hospital. It automatically generates a complete registration kit, based on patient data from HIM. All the necessary consents wristbands, labels and other appropriate forms produced on demand with personal demographic information added to each. Nothing is left to the memory or judgment of the registrar.
An Effective Process for Version Control
SMARTworks Clinical Enterprise offers an electronic Forms On Demand (FOD) library that serves as a central hub from which clinicians can select the forms they need. The FOD application simplifies the process of updating forms and controlling versions. Once the new or revised forms are verified and approved, they can go immediately back into the system where everyone has access to the most current version.
Going electronic eliminates a host of other hassles and costs, too – the tasks of purging and replacing preprinted forms, the cost of obsolete materials and the threat of non-compliant forms reemerging from hidden cubby holes throughout the hospital system.
Document Audit & Design Services
Standard Register offers you the resources and expertise to align clinical documentation with changing regulatory requirements and create an environment that fosters patient safety.
We’ll support you with a complete audit of all your clinical documents, helping you to standardize and consolidate forms, and assure they are compliant prior to converting them to a digital format. We’ll assist you in reviewing documents for Joint Commission-approved terminology and we can help you transition documents to address multilingual requirements.