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 [...]

Cerner Corporation has reached an agreement to acquire Clairvia, bringing together a leader in clinical and EHR solutions with a leader in acuity-based workforce and patient management solutions. The acquisition is anticipated to close in October 2011.
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Healthcare organizations know that improving coordination of care is vital to our future success. Accomplishing this objective requires us to align patient needs with the skills, abilities, and availability of nursing staff and treating physicians—in real time. Today, hospitals track patient needs through a variety of systems, including ADT, EHR, and even RTLS. Nursing resources [...]

“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. [...]

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 [...]

The KLAS 2011 Mid-Term Performance Review reinforces Clairvia’s commitment to providing quality solutions and service to the healthcare community. According to the review, Clairvia leads the market segment in Staff/Nurse Scheduling and continues to trend in a positive direction.

Redesigning and automating their processes “to be recognized as a national leader in person-centered care,” Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) chose Clairvia Care Value Management in September 2009 as the technology solution best able to support the achievement of their goals. Results from their eight-hospital pilot program were reported a few weeks ago, and they were [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]