Standard Register Lays “Essential Foundation” for Beatrice Community Hospital’s Transformation
15 Avril 2010 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
As the nation’s 1,500 Critical Access Hospitals struggle to
close the IT gap, Southeast Nebraska’s Beatrice Community Hospital
and Health Center is moving steadily ahead in its digital
transformation. Led by Standard Register (NYSE:SR), a leader in
document management and workflow automation, Beatrice has begun its
transition to electronic medical records (EMR), bypassing many of
the pains hospitals encounter when faced with automating
paper-intensive processes.
“You simply don’t move from paper to paperless overnight,” said
Patty Hortman, Beatrice’s clinical information analyst and
Information Services project manager for the SMARTworks® Clinical
Enterprise implementation. “We had a proliferation of forms,
problems controlling versions and ugly looking copies. Standard
Register helped us lay an essential foundation for our
transformation.”
According to Hortman, Standard Register guided efforts to
consolidate and standardize clinical forms, enabling Beatrice to
eliminate 45 percent of forms in use and converting most of the
remaining forms to electronic. Now the majority of forms going into
patient charts can be printed on demand if they are needed, and
every one carries a bar code.
Beatrice uses Standard Register’s SMARTworks Clinical Enterprise
to access and manage both electronic and paper documents that
support clinical workflow. Hortman said the technology has also
enabled them to transform their registration process. She explained
that as patients are admitted, the system automatically generates
patient kits, printing patient demographic information and bar
codes directly on face sheets, consents, wristbands, labels and
other forms.
Hortman reported that one key measure of the system’s success
has been clinician acceptance. By closely monitoring patient charts
that come through for coding, Beatrice’s health information
management staff determined compliance was 99 percent within two
months of installing SMARTworks Clinical Enterprise.
Now focused on Beatrice’s EMR implementation, Hortman said, “If
I had it to do over, I’d have done this sooner. Standard Register
helped us streamline our processes, eliminate version control
issues, and now all of our forms are standardized and bar-coded.
That has been truly beneficial,” she concluded.
About Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center
Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center is the largest
rural hospital in Southeast Nebraska, serving patients from more
than 150 communities in Nebraska and northern Kansas. This 25-bed
Critical Access Hospital uses the most modern, state-of-the-art
treatment modalities and diagnostic equipment. In 2009, Beatrice’s
compassionate staff handled 1,026 patient admissions, 7,813
emergency visits, 5,068 specialty clinic visits and 9,399 home
health visits. For more information, visit
www.beatricecommunityhospital.com.
About Standard Register
Standard Register is a premier document services and workflow
automation provider, trusted by healthcare, business and government
to manage the critical documents they need to thrive in today's
competitive climate. Employing nearly a century of industry
expertise, Lean Six Sigma methodologies and leading technologies,
the company helps organizations increase efficiency, reduce costs,
mitigate risks, grow revenue and meet the challenges of a changing
business landscape.
Standard Register’s Healthcare Business Unit, which serves more
than 3,100 hospitals and 100 of the nation’s top integrated
delivery networks (IDNs), offers document and label solutions for
patient identification and documentation, technology for workflow
automation, secure prescriptions, patient communications and
training materials as well as professional services and print
supply chain services to help clients manage documents throughout
their enterprises. More information is available at
www.standardregister.com/healthcare
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