Real-time information creates better care outcomes
Capturing information about current clinical conditions of individual patients and comparing that data to desired progress plans, caregiver teams can assign resources to achieve the best possible outcomes for each patient, at each moment in time. This patient-centric, outcomes-driven approach creates real, measurable improvements in care delivery:
- As patients receive the right care, from the right people, at the right time, they recover more rapidly, enjoy a better in-hospital experience and the shortest possible length of stay
- Schedules move from reactive response to proactive management, becoming more predictable and more reliable
- Confident in the reliability of their schedules and knowing that their skills are being effectively applied to helping their patients get better faster, the nursing staff enjoys greater job satisfaction
- Evidence-based allocation staff resources dramatically reduces operational inefficiencies and cuts overtime requirements, leading to superior financial performance
March 16th, 2012
Cerner Clairvia is excited to see our many clients and colleagues at AONE 2012: On the Precipice of Change the Courage to Lead. We look forward to sharing with you how our clients use Clairvia Workforce and Performance solutions to accelerate the health care system’s ability to shift towards a value-based payment system. Please join us in the conversation and come see our NEW Patient-Centric Workflows at AONE Booth 600.
You won’t want to miss Catholic Health Initiatives colleagues Kathleen Sanford, Senior Vice President and CNO, and Barbara Caspers, Director of Nursing Research and Practice, sharing their success in Managing Care Value through Technology Enabled Practice at 2:45 PM EST on Thursday, March 22. We commend the work they have done with transformational business processes and technology for our nurses at point-of-care.
Please join Cerner Clairvia in our congratulations to John Welton, PHD, RN, recipient of the 2012 AONE Foundation Nurse Research Award. Dr. Welton has been both inspirational and visionary to Cerner Clairvia clients and associates in his passion for leveraging evidence and data to drive value-based nursing.
August 4th, 2011
“Clairvia’s integrated CVM systems support our commitment to providing quality, safe patient care because the systems align staffing care directly with the real-time clinical status of patients,” says Pamela Bradshaw, RN, CCRN, NE-BC, CNO and Vice President of Nursing and Clinical Services at United Regional. “CVM Patient Acuity is the foundation of this approach. Since it drives acuity measurements straight from our clinical documentation, we receive seamless patient acuity based on actual patient condition, and not on subjectivity or nurses’ instinct.”
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July 25th, 2011
Measuring and managing nursing “productivity” has been around for a long time. But is it really “productivity” we’re measuring, or “utilization”? Productivity is defined as “output” divided by “input”. So how is output represented for nursing? One can easily argue that true nursing “output” is positive patient outcomes of the patients they are taking care of (including the avoidance of HAC’s and readmissions).
But traditionally, the “output” of “productivity” is represented as the amount of nursing time the patients “should” have received. This is usually based on patient acuity, or census times budgeted nursing hours per patient day. Either way, it’s our best guess at how much nursing time those patients “needed”.
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April 12th, 2011
For years, the professional literature has presented research demonstrating the impact of clinician staffing on patient outcomes. Our clients’ experiences have confirmed these conclusions: Using Clairvia CVM solutions to provide better decision support at the point of care, they have achieved measurable improvements in care quality and financial performance, as well as patient, staff, and physician satisfaction.
What if this real-time, real-world information was available to managers and executives at all levels of the organization? Could we, by linking individual clinicians to patient, financials, and quality outcomes, achieve an even greater positive impact on quality, satisfaction and financial metrics?
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April 1st, 2011
The Institute of Medicine released “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” on October 5, 2010. The report has unprecedented leadership and support including Harvey Fineberg (IOM), Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (RWJF), and Don Berwick (CMS). I had the the opportunity to learn more about this landmark report during a session led by Pam Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, Nurse Scholar in Residence, Institute of Medicine; former Chief Clinical Officer & CNO, University of Virginia Medical Center and the HIMSS 2011 Conference for Nursing Informaticist. The recommendation from the report has important implications for both Nursing and Technology. It is a great pleasure that Pam Cipriano will be speaking to the Clairvia community via webinar on April 21. We invite our customers and friends to join us on this important message for increasing our awareness of this landmark report and how we can support the report and its implications in our organizations and nursing communities.
Click here to register for the webinar.
March 30th, 2011
A must read for more evidence for nurse staffing published in The New England Journal of Medicine March 17, 2011 issue. The authors found that below-target nurse staffing and high patient turnover are independently associated with the risk of death. The question is raised as to whether or not new emerging payment systems should reward hospitals with adequate staffing!
You can access the full article on The New England Journal of Medicine’s site: www.nejm.org
February 15th, 2011
Healthcare organizations have long struggled with a difficult dilemma: How can we improve both quality of care and operational efficiency? Finding the right answer to this question will result in high-value health care, in which all patients move to their desired level of wellness as effectively and efficiently as possible.
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November 30th, 2010
At The Children’s Hospital of Denver, a national leader in pediatric care, meeting the needs of its young patients is highly personalized.
In addition to its welcoming, child-friendly environment and all-private rooms, the hospital is implementing patient-focused technologies that automatically measure each child’s clinical needs for care and then assign the individual nurse or caregiver team expertly qualified and skilled to meet those individualized care needs.
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November 10th, 2010
As part of its ongoing commitment to advancing quality in health care and increasing patient safety, Sutter Health will implement sophisticated software from Clairvia® across the not-for-profit-network. The software provides vital data that supports doctors, nurses and other care providers in anticipating patient needs and improving health outcomes.
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October 29th, 2010
In the October issue of JONA, there is a monumental editorial by Dean John M. Welton, PhD, RN titled “Value-Based Nursing Care”. It is a call to action for a national model that articulates the economic value of nursing care in the healthcare system in light of the new healthcare reform focus on value-based care. Dean Welton discusses
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