20 November 2006
Dusseldorf, Germany. The University Medical
Centre Schleswig-Holstein, the second largest University hospital in
Germany, went live with Picis’ Critical Care
Manager point-of-care documentation and clinician remote access in its
critical care areas on 14 November. Critical Care Manager is integrated
to the already-implemented and complementary c.a.r.u.s. Hospital
Management System (cHMS) for administrative management.
The 2400-bed Medical Centre went live with Picis’
Critical Care Manager in its intensive care units and via remote access,
allowing clinicians to view the ICU patient record from outside the
unit. The go-live was the culmination of a collaborative build period
where c.a.r.u.s. and Picis configured the software to adhere to
applicable German health care requirements, including the new German
government Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) coding, automated scoring
(including TISS 28 and SAPS II) and several other country-specific
functionalities.
In addition, Critical Care Manager is designed to share patient care
and procedure data and scoring information with c.a.r.u.s.’s
HMS. The Anaesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Department is now
paperless.
“No single system exists that meets the
varied needs of our entire hospital organization. That’s
why University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein has selected
specialized vendors to automate important clusters of the hospital
— Picis software for the critical care
environment and c.a.r.u.s. for the administrative healthcare management
functionality,” stated Professor Jens Scholz
M.D., Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Department, University
Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel.