Centricity® Enterprise - Clinical Data Repository

The Centricity Enterprise Clinical Data Repository enables any healthcare organization to establish an electronic health record by collecting and maintaining information from multiple encounters and sources. Our patient-centric repository provides a longitudinal view of patient activities including encounters, results, reports, histories and assessments – virtually a lifetime of information. The data repository provides comprehensive, current and historical clinical information to clinicians when and where they need it, ultimately helping them improve clinical performance and decision making. Our relational database makes it simple for any member of the clinical team to quickly access the information they need to improve productivity and safety.


Centricity® Enterprise - Orders

Fostering enhanced communication cross-departmentally, Centricity Enterprise Orders offers physicians, nurses and pharmacists the ability to enter, verify and dispense medication orders, allowing them to better coordinate patient care and improve its efficiency. Patient safety is always paramount in the mission-critical healthcare environment, which is why Centricity Enterprise Orders has been designed to help eliminate handwritten prescriptions and perform real-time drug-allergy, drug-drug, duplicate order and maximum dose conflict checks, all in a patient-specific order profile, every time a physician places an electronic medication order.

Centricity Enterprise Orders also:

  • Creates patient medication and non-medication orders.
  • Provides a patient-specific order profile.
  • Initiates order sets.
  • Creates conditional orders.
  • Supports electronic, online signing and verification of medication orders.
  • Creates order reports.
  • Maintains order audit trails.
  • Supports future orders.
  • Creates order renew notifications by provider and by patient.


Centricity® Enterprise - Pharmacy

Centricity Enterprise Pharmacy is a highly flexible solution integrated with other Centricity Enterprise clinical applications and designed to augment healthcare organizations' efforts to improve patient safety and control costs. It streamlines and automates the daily workflows of pharmacists, pharmacy personnel, physicians and nurses through a wide variety of advanced inpatient and ambulatory pharmacy capabilities.

Centricity Enterprise Pharmacy allows pharmacists and other authorized healthcare personnel to:

  • Enter and/or change medication orders, retrieve current orders and review past orders.
  • Queue medication orders for verification, dispensing and dose reconciliation.
  • Streamline pharmacy processes through interfaces with dispensing cabinets and robotic dispensing devices.
  • Produce reports tracking new orders, drug utilization, medication administration and other pharmacy statistics.
  • Print instructions and container labels for unit dose medications and IVs automatically.
  • Enable increased efficiency and efficacy in the selection, verification and documentation of medications to be administered via Bar Code Medication Charting.


Centricity® Enterprise - Care Documentation

Centricity Enterprise Care Documentation benefits every aspect of the care continuum, from patients to clinicians to the overall viability of a healthcare organization. It improves clinician access to comprehensive patient information, simplifies documentation activities and streamlines care processes, reducing the burden of inefficient, paperwork-driven processes that take time away from patient care.

Centricity Enterprise Care Documentation enables clinicians to practice proactive health management with simple entry and access to comprehensive patient information in a variety of formats.

Online MAR, worklists, Kardex, graphing and trending, detailed health histories, assessments and more are readily available and have been proven to save nurses time through elimination of redundant paper-based processes. In addition, automated decision support tools help pharmacists devote more time to clinical and patient safety responsibilities.

Centricity Enterprise Care Documentation includes:

  • Physician Charge Capture
  • Problem Lists
  • Procedure Logging
  • Flowsheet Charting
  • Charting and Worklists
  • Care Plans/Library
  • Critical Paths (Protocols)
  • Patient Classification
  • Immunizations
  • Bar Code Medication Charting


Centricity® Enterprise - Results Reporting

Time is of utmost importance in healthcare and Centricity Enterprise Results Reporting responds by rapidly communicating essential patient result information to clinicians.

Patient results can be viewed in Centricity Enterprise as soon as they are entered, often shaving hours or days off the turnaround time that is common to paper-based processes. In addition, results are maintained as part of a patient's electronic health record, enabling clinicians to track current and historical patient progress.

Centricity Enterprise Results Reporting offers these applications for result viewing flexibility. All applications have customizable viewing preferences to support workflow and allow quicker access to relevant information:

  • Document Display
    Document Display allows clinicians to view a list of all services provided to a patient and the associated result for each of those services, like laboratory results or radiology images.
  • Clinical Flowchart Viewer
    Clinical Flowchart Viewer allows clinicians to view results from several clinical categories, such as laboratory results, vital signs and administered medications, in a single table or graph.
  • Chart Summary View
    Chart Summary View retrieves patient data that exists in Centricity Enterprise and displays it in an easy-to-view summary format on one screen.
  • Clinical Report Builder
    Clinical Data Reporting generates results reports with user-specified definitions. The reports can be customized in numerous ways, from formatting and printing standards to aggregates.


Centricity® Enterprise - Emergency Department

Centricity Enterprise Emergency Department offers physicians, nurses and administrative staff working in the high-pressure, fast-paced emergency department environment a comprehensive set of tools to assist them in managing the delivery of care. The system's Emergency Department tools help improve triage, contributing to both the quality of care and patient wait times.

Centricity Enterprise Emergency Department helps healthcare professionals to quickly access patient information, track patients without delay, monitor patient flow, document services provided to patients within the Emergency Department and coordinate services between separate departments throughout the facility.

An electronic whiteboard helps clinicians and staff view each patient's location, problem, triage state, physician and current lab and ancillary results. All views of information are flexible and tailorable to clinician preferences, saving time and promoting more effective and efficient patient care in the setting where every second counts.


Centricity® Enterprise - Critical Care

Manual documentation typically takes 40 percent of critical care nurses' time. Centricity Enterprise Critical Care automates the critical care flowsheet, thereby helping clinicians manage the complex and diverse data generated in the demanding environment of a critical care unit.

By automating the capture of patient vital signs and physiologic data and organizing standard case protocols, including key assessments, treatments, scores and medications, Centricity Enterprise Critical Care can reduce documentation time and lessen the risk of errors while helping to improve record accuracy, legibility and availability.


Centricity® Enterprise - Perioperative

The operating room is the highest revenue-generating, fastest growing and most resource-intensive area of the hospital, accounting for more than 50 percent of a hospital's budget, on average. Centricity Perioperative elps streamline perioperative workflow and integrate data across the continuum of the surgical process. Using this solution, clinicians can access a patient's medical history - such as medication allergies - from within the perioperative environment. The solution also includes an anesthesia software module that provides instant access to patients' histories and test results, and documents the anesthesia process in real time.

Collectively, the surgical software helps staff and clinicians schedule, manage materials and resources, respond to individual physician preferences, track surgery case studies, and evaluate the true costs and efficiencies of every case.


Centricity® Enterprise - Anesthesia

The Centricity Enterprise Anesthesia module facilitates medical management during the perioperative process. This module assists clinicians in monitoring patients, achieving rapid access to histories and test results, and documenting the anesthesia process in real time. By facilitating these capabilities, Centricity Enterprise Anesthesia frees the anesthesia team from handwritten record-keeping, enabling them to focus more completely on the patient.


Centricity® Enterprise - Ultra Lab (formerly Centricity® Enterprise Lab)

Centricity Enterprise Ultra Lab provides clinicians with a robust laboratory application that interoperates with the Centricity Enterprise suite of products. This solution is proven in high-volume, distributed lab operations, and supports healthcare providers in managing every facet of the testing process - from the moment a test is ordered to the storage or disposal of the specimen.


First DataBank Drug Knowledge Base

First DataBank has been chosen to supply the pharmaceutical databases used in Centricity Enterprise, providing physicians, nurses and pharmacists with comprehensive, up-to-date drug information at the point of care. The information contained within the extensive First DataBank database helps prevent adverse drug events and simplifies the dissemination of medication information and other printed educational materials to patients across the healthcare enterprise.


Centricity® Enterprise - Patient Education, powered by LOGICARE®

Centricity Enterprise Patient Education, powered by LOGICARE, can supply personalized education materials to patients at any point in the care process.

With Centricity Enterprise Patient Education, clinicians can access over 4,700 instructional topics and use the content as provided or edit it to meet the needs of the individual patient. The unique document is then stored in Centricity Enterprise as part of the electronic health record and may be reviewed and/or printed when needed.


Centricity® Enterprise - Discharge Instructions, powered by LOGICARE®

The capabilities of Centricity Enterprise Discharge Instructions, powered by LOGICARE, allow emergency department staff to select from up to 6,000 unique adult and pediatric topics to build individualized instructions, typically in less than 90 seconds. To fully meet the needs of the individual patient, pre-existing content may be edited and new categories may be documented. This system can also deliver discharge instructions appropriate for emergency departments, inpatient units or clinics.


Patient Information and Alerts

Patient List Management
Patient List Management allows an unlimited number of patient lists to be managed through an easy-to-use "frequent list" directory. Clinicians may customize individual lists, access system-maintained lists and subscribe to a variety of group lists.

Provider In-Box
Provider In-Box sends results, documents, alerts and activities to a central location where clinicians can control what types of messages and alerts they receive and how they are organized. An enhanced number of alert types as well as "pop-up" and shared patient information notes further add to the usability of the Provider In-Box.

Health Maintenance Alerts
Health Maintenance Alerts are used to set up and send alerts to notify users when a patient-specific action is needed. Alerts may be displayed in the Provider In-Box as well as other applications. Health Maintenance Alerts assist clinicians in their efforts to make informed decisions, enhancing the quality of patient care and controlling costs.


Centricity® Enterprise - Document Management, powered by Streamline Health

With Centricity Enterprise Document Management, powered by Streamline Health, a provider of document imaging and workflow applications that enhance access to information across the healthcare enterprise, users can view patient documents that reside on paper from within Centricity Enterprise, offering one-stop access to patient information in all formats in the clinical or administrative setting. Centricity Enterprise Document Management provides clinicians the ability to search and retrieve patient information from any location within the facility, their office, off-site clinics or from home. In addition, a comprehensive web-based chart deficiency management system is provided that includes analysis, electronic signature and management reports – all from a single login.


Benefits

  • User-friendly Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)and embedded decision support help prevent medication errors.
  • Clearly organized, current patient information enhances clinicians' ability to provide safe, high-quality patient care.
  • Fully integrated orders, pharmacy and medication charting supports enhanced care every step of the way.
  • Critical care data automation helps reduce risk of errors and saves time.


Unsurpassed reliability via the HP NonStop™ server

  • Delivers 99.9 percent uptime, crucial to the mission-critical healthcare environment.
  • Subsecond response time supports quick decision-making, even when multiple workstations are in use.
  • Massive scalability easily supports thousands of simultaneous transactions.


Streamlines workflow and documentation

  • Clinicians across the enterprise have secure, continuous access to patient information.
  • Automated documentation and planning tools contribute to best care practices and best use of clinician time.
  • The clinician's personalized desktop helps organize each day's – or night's – work.