Clinical Care Documentation / Care Planning : within Clinical Applications

• Automatically assigns resident into an acuity class based upon a user defined total attribute point value.

• System is highly scalable and can accommodate shift/daily volume totals or can be broken down to the source by cc/ml.

• Supports on-line recording of medications, piggybacks, IV's, hyperal, and blood products ordered in HCS Pharmacy and Order Entry Systems.

• Provides a user maintained database of standard care plans which link nursing diagnosis/problem statement and outcomes/long-term/short-term goals to interventions and education.
• Ability to have interventions populate a treatment record, specify responsible discipline, and drop charges upon completion.

• Ability to access policies and procedures by subject or policy number and view information on-line, which can be facility specific.

• Allows for entry of free-form interdisciplinary progress/narrative notes with templates available to reduce keystrokes and promote comprehensive documentation.

• On-line incident reporting capability includes tracking and reporting on falls, medication errors, and all incidents involving residents, employees and visitors.

• Can audit on-line by user or resident all the electronic medical record information accessed with the ability to scan by date range.

• Automates CMS 700/701 forms with full integration of billing and clinical applications.

• Organization can choose which orders and care plan interventions to populate the treatment record with. This can be run separately by responsible discipline.
• Ability to view online all treatments for specific date range, by shift, when treatments are given, if given and document reason when not given.

• Allows for entry of temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, weight, pain scale, and blood glucose.
• Vital signs can be viewed in graphical format.
• Provides a listing of all resident weights with a history of the last 30, 90, and 180 days noting percentage of change.

User-Defined Clinical Assessment Tools : within Clinical Applications

• Links the assessment module to the care plan module by suggesting nursing diagnoses based on answers to assessment questions.
• All assessment tools are user defined and maintained, allowing organizations to keep the assessments they are currently using.

Order Entry : within Clinical Applications

• Accommodates user defined order entry screen which allows additional data to be captured along with order requirements.
• Allows for entry of orders from multiple sites including nursing stations, selected ancillary departments, and other service areas.
• Warns user of potential duplicate order upon entry of order.
• Checks for procedure-to-procedure and procedure-to-medication conflicts and provides an alert to view the conflicting tests or medications.
• Communicates service orders/requisitions to all appropriate departments automatically.
• Accommodates entry of order sets (by doctor, provider, diagnosis, or department), exploding and high frequency orders.
• Produces work lists for ancillary departments and clinicians, based on current orders.
• Order verification/review, receive, and complete orders for each ancillary department.
• Full integration with all relevant INTERACTANT Modules.
• Full reporting capability.
• Generates display for all orders to facilitate monthly renewals.

Results Reporting : within Clinical Applications

• Allows viewing of single and composite results for each resident.
• Ability to print results on demand.

Clinical Staffing and Scheduling : within Clinical Applications

• Automatically feeds hours worked into the payroll system.

• Integrates employee demographic information with the scheduling component.
• Provides nursing management information concerning scheduling preferences, qualifications, and other employee data.
• Maintains all demographic, payroll, license, certification, and scheduling information for each organization employee (integrated with HCS Human Resources Management Module).

• Maintains float department allowing scheduling at any place within the organization.

• Responds to employee requests, schedule restrictions, organizational policies, and unit requirements.

Pharmacy : within Clinical Applications

• Full integration with all relevant INTERACTANT Modules.
• Pharmacy on-line adjudication to third party billing providers.
• View drug utilization by order/dose and physician.
• Pharmacy universal claim form.
• Pharmacy cycle fill period defined by nursing unit and can be modified.
• Complete reporting capability.
• Provides fill list designed to meet organizational needs.

• Integrates with First Data Bank Formulary.
• Accommodates formulary creation, updates, and inquiries.

• System can dispense to residents as well as employees.

• Provides pharmacy with a separate user modified security system.

• Accommodates ordering of floor stock pharmacy items.
• Provides a pharmacy alternate drug display, which lists medications within the same American Hospital Formulary Service Classification with pricing information to assist clinicians in making cost of therapy decisions.
• Inventory control for narcotics, return medication credits/adjustments, and doctor's standing orders.

• On-line MAR (Medication Administration Record) allows for accurate documentation of medications.

• Provides inquiry into drug compatibility and interaction tables.

MDS/RAPS : within Clinical Applications

• Full integration with all INTERACTANT Modules.
• Facilitates the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) for long-term care and subacute providers.
• Full integration will all HCS INTERACTANT Modules including on-line assessment tools, (functional evaluation measures) MAR/TAR, narrative notes, and meal monitor.
• Provides RAP guidelines which enables the user to evaluate the resident against additional factors to best determine the need to proceed with a problem statement.
• Provides the RAP trigger legend for all RAPs and allows the user to document against each triggered MDS question.
• Displays previous responses while completing current MDS.
• Clinical Assistant display allows the user to view assessment data to make MDS charting decisions. For example, when answering questions for the last seven days, the user can review the last seven days of assessments.
• Automates the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and Resident Assessment Protocols (RAP).
• Full reporting capability.
• Can create a listing of resident specific problem statements generated from triggered RAPs and assessment responses to create a comprehensive plan of care.
• Allows for MDS entry by staff types.
• Calculates Resource Utilization Groups III (RUG III) while assessment is still in progress.
• Supports multiple RUG groupers for state specific case mix requirements.
• Facilitates compliance with PPS/OBRA assessment due dates.
• Calculates MDS Quality Indicator reports for facility and corporate comparison.
• 672 and 802 data updated from most recent MDS assessment and resident forms can be modified individually.
• Supports all CMS and MDS edit checks and allows organization to create additional edits.

• MDS Scheduler.
• RAP Summary.
• RAP Trigger Legend.
• MDS Guidelines Display.
• Quality Indicator Reporting.
• MDS Drill-Down Reporting.
• Resident Cost Estimator.

Wireless Hand-Held Device : within Clinical Applications

• HCS INTERACTANT Software provides for wireless, hand-held devices which can be used for point-of-care computing.
• Allows for entry of all registration and admission information, clinical care documentation, order entry, and materials inventory management.
• Enables caregivers to capture information where it happens - at the point-of-care - in a cost effective manner.
• Bar coding allows for medication verification/administration, materials management, and immediate charging of supplies and medications.
• Improves standardization of charting.
• Facilitates data collection for utilization review and outcomes management.