Reinventing the healthcare IT solutions: Medsphere

The Silicon Review

Medsphere provides comprehensive EHR and RCM solutions for inpatient and ambulatory facilities with outsourced managed IT services and supply chain management to improve overall patient care. From large acute care hospitals to behavioral health hospitals, from rural community hospitals to physician practices and government services organizations — the goal is to make quality healthcare IT solutions accessible to organizations of virtually any size, shape or budget. CareVue is a fully-integrated system that supports all enterprise clinical services in a single database. CareVue is patient-centered and supports the continuum of care, including inpatient and affiliated outpatient settings. The CareVue system comprises foundational applications that support clinical and nutritional services, including a multi-functional patient chart; laboratory, pharmacy and radiology applications; health information management functions; a nutrition and food service module; multi-disciplinary treatment planning for behavioral health; and an interface suite to ensure complete patient data.

Medsphere’s CareVue is installed in acute care hospitals ranging from a 476-bed urban facility to a 10-bed critical access facility in rural New Mexico. All eligible acute care clients have met Meaningful Use requirements and received 100 percent federal reimbursement. CareVue offers adaptability and flexibility that few fully functional EHRs can match. Designed by clinicians from all healthcare disciplines, CareVue is guided by the principle of making it easier for healthcare professionals to provide better patient care. As an integrated solution, CareVue includes applications critical to ensuring patient safety and promoting effective communication among mental health clinicians.

Esteemed services provided by the organization

Tracking: Dynamic, color-coded patient tracking shows the status of each patient instantly. At a glance, see open beds, waiting patients’ admission criteria status and for what they’re waiting. Custom screens in each area of the facility displays only the data the clients want to see. Patients are tracked from pre-admission acuity assessments through disposition and alerts for interventions, time limits and test results are right on the tracking display. See a global view of all patients in the facility, across the enterprise, or display only the clients’ own patients. Patients can be sorted based on virtually any factor such as mass casualty, boarders, financial class or any other criteria. The Wellsoft Risk Management System establishes the ability to implement complex risk management checks and flags during a patient’s admission. Examples of current rules built into the system include medication alerts based on a patient’s age and weight or warning messages for assessment scores.

Clinical Documentation: Fast and complete clinical documentation using dynamic problem specific templates and interactive PDF forms. Pop-up menus provide fast documentation of clinical treatments, clinical assessments, procedures and interventions. Any method of data input including voice recognition or handwriting recognition tablets can be used. Documentation for ancillary services is also available for disciplines such as Social Services, Case Managers, and Nutrition etc. Copies of the chart can be sent electronically to any HL7-compliant system such as an Enterprise CDR or HIE. Wellsoft provides the ability to reproduce forms electronically, replacing the clients’ facility’s standard paper forms with digital conversions that are stored, accessed and electronically signed within Wellsoft. The electronic signature can be permanently embedded in the patient record and secured by the comprehensive user access system. The Multi-Disciplinary Treatment Plan (MDTP) application enables users to create and maintain a library of problems, goals, and interventions for use in treatment planning documentation. Clinicians from various disciplines use MDTP to collaboratively create, update and sign treatment plans. MDTP can gather patient/guardian signatures and automatically includes the DSM 5 diagnosis recorded in the patient chart.

Medication Management: Check for possible drug-drug interactions or allergy/hypersensitivity reactions automatically or on demand. Current medications and known drug allergies are checked against medications ordered, prescribed or dispensed. Enables rapid review of ordered medications by the pharmacist with the ability to modify and /or approve medications prior to administration by the nursing staff, providing rapid feedback to the ordering practitioner. Wellsoft Pharmacy Track facilitates the pharmacist in identifying potential patient medication safety issues as this track affords quick access to home medications and allergies for review. Wellsoft supports the use of bar code generated medication administration information. This feature can improve patient safety by decreasing medication related errors and increases overall efficiency by allowing the nurse in the ED to verify medication orders for a patient in real-time at the point of care. This ensures that the right medication is given to the right patient via the right route, with the right dose and at the right time. Information captured is then automatically appended to each respective order in the patient’s order table. This bar coding technology may also be used in other areas such as Specimen Verification and Document Scanning.

Image Capture: View patient image data at the point of care using Wellsoft’s user-friendly photo capture utility. Useful in patient identification, risk management, and wound or abuse cases, among others. Wellsoft incorporates detailed anatomical images which can be embedded within clinical documentation. These easily accessible images can be annotated with a mouse, stylus, or touch screen to indicate lacerations, edemas, etc. Reduce the costs associated with storing and duplicating paper documents and increase the accessibility of the clients’ documents by scanning them directly into patient charts. Wellsoft allows for the scanning of both images and paper documents, such as EKGs and EMS run sheets, ID cards, or forms.

Meet the leader behind the success of Medsphere

Jeri Judkins, Chief Executive Officer

Jeri Judkins has more than 25 years of experience leading sales and marketing in the healthcare industry, focusing specifically on solutions that improve clinical outcomes, advance operational efficiency, and increase overall patient satisfaction. Jeri also serves as the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for ChartLogic.