CareVue Chart

You have no shortage of clinical data with monitors, laboratory reports, pathology reports, radiology images, patient histories, written notes, pharmacy orders, and much more besides. But when you are pressed for time and you need to make an important decision, that data won’t help when it’s all in different places – stored on independent electronic devices, software applications, and stacks of paper.

CareVue Chart delivers real-time clinical decision support by gathering virtually every element of accumulated patient data in one place and applying rules to deliver clinical advisories. This means you can find out right away when a patient appears to be at risk for sepsis, for example, or ensure that your unit follows guidelines to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia consistently.

Easy-to-use data analysis and reporting
With CareVue Chart, you are literally two or three mouse clicks from essential reports for regulatory compliance and operating efficiency. An intuitive user interface lets you build database queries for research and quality improvement efforts simply by dragging and dropping data elements.

The right platform for the job
CareVue Chart’s user interface has been refined through our more than 15 years of experience providing clinical data management software to users around the world. And on the back end, its state-of-the-art Microsoft .NET platform is likely to fit beautifully into your enterprise IT infrastructure.

Patients are best served when all of their caregivers are working from the same information. CareVue Chart improves communication and coordination among the entire patient care team. Since all charted information is centralized, each specialty’s customized flowsheets, forms, and reports are populated from the same database.

CareVue Chart is designed with multiple levels of access control and a complete audit trail to protect patient data and privacy.

CareVue Chart’s clinical advisories work by applying detailed rules to the full range of clinical data, including lab results, medications, vital signs, calculations, and recorded observations.

For example, sepsis is one of the most deadly complications in ICU patients. CareVue Chart triggers a clinical advisory when a patient appears to be at risk for developing sepsis so that you can intervene promptly.

CareVue Chart then provides orders functionality so that you can initiate and track treatment. Every element of the case is also available in the database for retrospective reporting.

CareVue Chart includes a library of clinical advisories that you can customize and add to for your facility.

Regulatory reporting requirements are increasing all the time, and with them, the frustration for clinical staff of continually gathering and transcribing data from multiple sources – electronic and paper-based. The work is hard and the stakes are high as hospitals’ results are increasingly posted to web sites and used for comparisons. Accuracy and completeness in reporting are more important than ever.

CareVue Chart’s reporting tools break new ground in flexibility, ease of use, and comprehensiveness. A vast built-in database means you can generate most of the reports you need on a regular basis with a few clicks of the mouse. An intuitive graphic user interface allows you to analyze your data in multiple dimensions simply by dragging and dropping data elements.

All reports can be run manually or scheduled. For example, you might schedule a report on glucose control to run each day or a report on clinical advisories over the last shift to use during handoffs. It’s also easy to track unit effectiveness because any value that’s charted can be used in a report. If you have an element in your flowsheet to record the bed angle, you can use that in your reporting on ventilatorassociated pneumonia (VAP). CareVue Chart also includes reports built around VAP, sepsis, and other evidence-based care guidelines.

Simplicity
We designed the reporting interface in CareVue Chart for the clinical user with no special expertise in relational databases. We provide simple wizards for the built-in reports, and anyone who is comfortable with a spreadsheet can build queries.

Comprehensive reporting for quality improvement and research
CareVue Chart maintains a complete archive and keeps it available at all times. Day to day, this archive allows clinicians to call up a patient’s past encounters for reference easily. Over the long term, this longitudinal database becomes an invaluable tool for research and benchmarking efforts.

CareVue Chart’s state-of-the-art Microsoft .NET platform is the foundation for interdepartmental integration and advanced clinical decision support into the foreseeable future.

Key technologies
.NET®
Microsoft Active Directory
Windows XP ®
Windows® Server 2003
SQL Server Enterprise

With CareVue Chart, you get:

• Ability to interface with all major HIS vendors to integrate your complete patient record
• Industry-leading data acquisition from patient monitors and dozens of other bedside devices to reduce transcription errors and facilitate workload
• HL7 data exchange with your other hospital systems (e.g., HIS, LIS, pharmacy)
• Flexible networking frameworks and remote access (including wireless) to keep your clinical staff informed, wherever they are
• Open database with advanced data analysis and reporting tools built in for more efficient regulatory compliance and in-depth research
• Active Directory support so that you can manage security from your central HR records