Patient Safety

Point of care medication administration, electronic medical records, clinical decision support, emergency department process reengineering, hand-held device technology, clinical results alerting, computerized physician order entry, evidence-based error reporting, disease management – all components of quality improvement initiatives. Where do you start?

ACS Healthcare Solutions' Patient Safety Services

ACS Healthcare Solutions' services – based on lessons learned by early adopters, our vast knowledge of the challenges and solutions to cultural change, clinical process best practices, and partnerships and alliances with many of the health care industry’s vendors — are tailored specifically to meet your needs.

ACS Healthcare Solutions:

• Provides patient safety and market awareness education, executive briefings and opportunity evaluations, and readiness assessments regarding patient safety, its impact, effective clinical best practices throughout your organization, and technology solutions that make sense for you.
• Services are tailored to include the best clinical operations improvements (ED, pharmacy, nursing, others) and appropriate technologies for you.
• Leads your organization in prioritizing, selecting, implementing, and managing new cultural change, clinical processes, and technologies; and provides ongoing program management to meet your quality improvement expectations.

Specific solutions include:

• Emergency department process changes to reduce delays in treatment that lead to extended patient stays and undesired outcomes.
• Point-of-care bedside medication administration processes in the pharmacy and nursing units that significantly reduce errors and costs associated with manual medication administration processes.
• Evidence-based error reporting processes that provide for a better understanding of where errors occur and what they cost.
• Clinical alerting applications to notify clinicians of abnormal results and to interrupt medication administration more rapidly until results are explored.
• Clinical decision support reporting analysis to help physician and clinical decision makers understand data and affect clinical protocols.
• Disease Management processes that assist organizations in proactively managing chronically ill patients, thus slowing the transition to more serious stages of disease.
• Telemedicine solutions that provide opportunities to change critical care delivery and specialty therapy/treatment processes and to provide increased support to remote or under-served organizations and geographies.
• Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) preparedness, application readiness, and implementation support to address physician order entry initiatives.

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