Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS)
The OpenVista Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) provides a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) enabling clinicians to accurately and efficiently capture clinical encounters. Providers can enter, review and update all order-related information connected with any patient, including ordering lab tests, medications, diets, radiograph exams, consults and procedures. The CPRS Application includes the following functional modules:
Patient Summary
The Patient Summary provides a snapshot—a cover page, if you will—of the overall clinical state of a patient, including meaningful updates to the patient’s current and historic cross encounter condition.
Clinical Alerts and Reminders
The OpenVista Clinical Alerts and Reminders Module enhances patient treatment by providing clinicians with relevant information at the point of care. Clinical Reminders empower clinical decisionmaking by basing reminders on a particular patient’s clinical data and allowing facilities to define reminders by local needs.
Consults Tracking
The Consults Tracking Module enables clinicians to order consultations and procedures from other providers or services within the healthcare system. It also provides a framework for tracking consults and reporting results or findings. Consults are included in a patient’s computerized patient record and are viewed as part of the integrated patient documentation.
Orders Communication/Results Reporting
Immediate routing of orders to the appropriate care areas with verification capabilities can reduce time to intervention by eliminating cumbersome manual processes. Order requisitioning is configurable and closely interrelated with the capabilities configured for the Radiology, Pharmacy and Laboratory applications. Results are posted within these departments and immediately available to the patient’s clinical record.
Clinical Documentation
The Clinical Documentation Module provides robust templating utilities for creating immediate point-and-click, object-imported, standardized notes that are easy to assemble and use. The templates may be designed for all care providers with an interdisciplinary or individual approach to the note. All notes are viewed from a single point of entry and may be filtered on the fly to provide clinicians with complete clinical information for informed decision making.
Computerized Provider Order Entry
The CPOE module enables clinicians to create orders from within the same area of the clinical record that provides relevant patient data. CPOE offers time-saving functions such as Quick Orders, Clinical Decision Support, Disease Specific Evidence-Based Order Sets, and Time-delay Orders.
Clinical Image Viewer
OpenVista’s core imaging infrastructure includes components used to capture, store, and display images created by all manner of digital input devices, including video cameras, digital cameras, document and color scanners, X-ray scanners and DICOM-compliant devices like CT scanners, MR scanners and digital X-ray machines. Clinicians and technicians can access images through OpenVista Imaging or the CPRS GUI on the clinician desktop, and automatically view images associated with procedures, exam reports or progress notes.
Intake/Output
The Intake and Output Module stores in the patient EMR all intake and output information associated with a hospital stay or outpatient visit. Intake and Output is not service specific. Users may electronically document patient intake (e.g., oral fluids, tube feedings and other types defined by the facility) and output (e.g., excreted patient material).
Vital Signs
The Vital Signs Module stores in the patient EMR all vital signs and additional measurements associated with a hospital stay or outpatient visit. Additional measurements may include height, weight and pain scores. This data is in turn available to other OpenVista modules and applications (PIMS, Pharmacy, Laboratory, etc.).