Connecting workflows across the care continuum
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Connecting workflows across the care continuum

Working in hazardous conditions is a way of life for most nurses, but going through it alone doesn’t have to be.

Improving lives together The demands of health care have never been greater. With an aging population that requires more care and not enough care givers to meet these needs, the industry is strained. Nursing is no exception and, as the pulse of health care, nurses are feeling it: long hours, tight budgets and high levels of burnout. As health information technology continues to evolve, we strive to support those who are on the front lines. Cerner aims to empower clinicians with information, enhance daily care and act as a second pair of eyes to keep patients safe. Working in hazardous...

Nursing is near the top of the list of occupations with the largest projected number of job openings.1 Though the nursing shortage has been discussed for years, it is far from resolved.2 This adds pressure to clinicians to be as efficient as possible, and every second counts.

Improving based on evidence Not only do we provide tools to help improve patient care, we work hard to maximize the impact of your EHR. Through Lights On Network®, Cerner’s analytics platform, clinical EHR-use data is transformed into knowledge and action. Lights On Network promotes best practices, identifies users for additional training and monitors performance of key clinical activities. We provide this analytical cloud-based solution free of charge as part of an ongoing commitment to our clients. “Incorporating Cerner’s Lights On Network® as a work tool is a great way to support ongoing...

Knowing how nurses work More than 900 nurses work for Cerner. So you can rest assured knowing that we understand the complexity of your workflows and are striving to alleviate your pain points. For example, by creating custom pages, your nurses will see only the documentation fields relevant to their current patient. If your patient isn’t on a ventilator, the system understands that you don’t need to see the fields for documenting ventilator status. “Cerner’s developers are great because they recognize the needs of the clinician. They don’t just take a nursing form and make it user-friendly...

Putting nurses at the right place, at the right time Staff nurses across the nation are reporting a dramatic increase in the use of mandatory overtime as a staffing tool. This dangerous staffing practice, in part due to a nursing shortage, is having a negative impact on patient care, fostering medical errors and driving nurses away from the bedside.1 Cerner helps hospitals calculate a patient’s acuity, the care hours a specific patient needs, based on information captured in the electronic health record (EHR). Accounting for the level of care each patient needs helps the organization...

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles plus Cerner equals efficiency After implementing Cerner ClairviaSM, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) studied its impact on nursing productivity and is reporting positive results. In March 2014, CHLA added Cerner Clairvia OutcomesDriven Acuity to their staffing system. CHLA designed the system’s mapping guide to assess and assign patients’ acuity scores and statuses in relation to desired outcomes from standards set by the Nursing Outcomes Classification. Visual cues from the solution’s dashboard alert nurse managers of changes in a patient’s status, as...

There’s an immense amount of cross-team and cross-venue collaboration that goes into patient care. Orders are written, X-rays captured and labs drawn. With such a large network of clinical personnel, communication failures represent some of the largest contributors to adverse clinical events.1

Going where nurses go Health care doesn’t stop and nurses need access to solutions wherever care is needed. In order to keep patient care moving forward, nurses can use CareAware Connect™ to send a message to other care team members asking them to review a patient’s status remotely if they’re not on-site. Clinicians waste an average of each day waiting for patient information as a result of inefficient communication technologies. The Economic and Productivity Impact of IT Security on Healthcare; May

Communicating across teams We know that care rarely stays within one discipline during a patient visit. Cerner's commitment to the care team encourages smoother communication across multidisciplinary care teams. Our core mobile solution can display a patient's care team members along with an option to contact them, making it easy to reach the right clinician. Our labor and delivery physician-geared solution, FetaLink+®, saves time by allowing the nurse and physician to review the same data. No more describing a strip over the phone. “Communication among team members has enhanced...

With our intelligent mobile solutions and client collaboration, only actionable, critical alerts get pushed to a nurse’s attention. Reducing alarm fatigue Nurses sometimes experience more than 350 alarms per patient, per day.1 As a nurse juggles multiple patients and multiple tasks throughout his or her shift, it can be difficult to keep track of the noises and demands coming from every direction. It's no wonder that the addition of device alarms creates additional nursing fatigue. Preventing nuisance alarms and recognizing meaningful alarms is key to reducing fatigue.2 With our intelligent...

NCH Health Care System Reduces Alarm Fatigue Excerpt from the whitepaper “Fighting Alarm Fatigue with Data-Driven Interventions” In June 2013, The Joint Commission (TJC) issued National Patient Safety Goal NPSG.06.01.01 to address alarm management in relation to patient safety and clinical workload in the hospital environment. … Kevin Smith, BSN, RN, CNML, CVRN-BC, Director II, Cardiac Services, explained, “The health system has been actively operating in an environment of technological innovation that focuses on patient and clinician needs, thanks to a partnership with Cerner [hereafter...