Clairvia for Quality Care

  • Real-time information creates an
    evidence-based foundation for achieving
    optimal care outcomes

Real-time information creates an evidence-based foundation for achieving optimal care outcomes

Focusing on the current care needs of individual patients – as determined by their physicians – and tracking recovery to desired progress plans in real time, hospitals can assign resources to achieve the best possible outcomes:

  • Directing resources to the known needs of current patients, hospitals get the right people to the right patients at the right time
  • Effective, evidence-based caregiver allocation leads to higher quality care, a better patient experience and the shortest possible length of stay
  • Based on patient progress plans that are updated in real time, schedules move from reactive response to proactive management, becoming more predictable and more reliable
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Cerner Clairvia is excited to see our many clients and colleagues at AONE 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.

By driving patient acuity on clinical documentation, United Regional matches staffing care to individualized patient needs

“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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Evidence-based Decision Support—for Everyone

Group of business colleagues working on a laptopFor 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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“The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”

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.

Real-time integration of EHR and resource data can improve quality of care and operational efficiencies.

Caregivers help a child patientHealthcare 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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The Children’s Hospital of Denver assigns patients to caregivers based on real-time patient acuity, improving focus on safety and outcomes, and distributing more balanced caregiver workload

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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Sutter Health will implement Clairvia as part of its ongoing commitment to advancing quality in health care and increasing patient safety

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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Value-Based Nursing Care

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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Catholic Health Initiatives is trying to figure out the true costs associated with nursing – so they can do a better job managing those costs.

Clairvia customer and highly respected national leader, Kathleen D. Sanford, RN, MA, DBA, FACHE., was interviewed by HFMA in July in an article titled “Staffing Issues: A Major Concern for Nursing.” Sanford, senior vice president and CNO of Catholic Health Initiatives raises very important questions such as truly understanding the cost of nursing services, and how CHI is addressing the business case for quality.
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Managing Inpatient Cost and Quality

Part 1: Length of Stay

The other day I heard that even with increased taxes and program cutbacks, within a few years the rising costs of medical care would overcome those efforts to keep the US financially healthy. While we might not have “signed up” to solve the country’s financial problems, you can bet that those who did sign up to solve them will be putting huge pressure on the health care industry to control costs, while maintaining care quality.
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Testimonials

  • "We believe we have, with Clairvia, the means and structure to measure and maintain sustainable improvement."

    - Derrick Suehs, Chief Quality Officer, Crouse Hospital
  • "By combining an innovative, team-oriented approach with the real-time staff management capabilities of Clairvia software, nursing leaders at Mount Sinai Hospital’s medical service have significantly reduced overtime costs while supporting safer, higher-quality staffing and increasing staff satisfaction."

    - Carol Porter, DNP, Chief Nursing Officer, The Mount Sinai Hospital