Cerner Anesthesia Project

Walk & Talk

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Project Overview

New Cerner Anesthesia application coming this year!

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Now Future

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Why Are We Doing This?

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• Patient Safety!

• Improving the Virginia Mason Memorial Experience

• Integrated Information Systems

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Project Scope

• Dashboard Views (Mpages)

• Documentation (PowerNotes, iView, Smart Templates, Clinical Notes)

• Reporting (Clinical Reporting XR)

• Billing (Charge Services)

• Information from the physiological monitor and some Anesthesia machines will flow directly into Cerner

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Cerner Anesthesia

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Fully integrated into Cerner!

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Device Integration

Cerner Anesthesia

Downloads values

Examples:

• Heart Rate

• Bladder Temperature

• SpO2

• Blood Pressure

• VT Exhaled

Physiologic Monitor

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Impacts

Who?

• Anesthesia providers

• Anyone who views the Anesthesia record for patient information – OR, PACU, Inpatient Units, Pharmacy

Where?

• Anywhere the anesthesia record is DOCUMENTED or VIEWED

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Benefits of Cerner Anesthesia

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Supports

Patient Safety across the care

continuum with

increased visibility of

patient care

Increase

Efficiency and

Accuracy with electronic

documentation taking

place in flow

Informs

Clinical Decision

Making

Measure and trend

Quality Measures with simple reporting

tools

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What We’ve Done So Far…

• Discovery! We Studied Current State Workflow

• Initial Build

• Completed 6 Sprint Design Sessions covering all case types

• Retrospective alignment

• Training plan developed

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What is a ‘Sprint’?

‘A brief spell of great activity’

• Held Cerner Anesthesia design sessions

• Anesthesia and CIS work together in parallel

AnesthesiaApplication

Engineers

Cerner Anesthesia

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Next Steps

Training Sep – Oct

• Classroom training

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What Can You Do?

• Stay informed! Visit

yakimamemorial.org/cernerupdate

• Sign up for training (Anesthesia providers)

• Be open to trying new processes

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Project Timeline

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June July Aug Sept Oct

Sprints

Complete!

Finalization

of

build

IT

Systems

Testing

IT Systems

Testing

Continues

Trainer and

super-user

prep.

End User

Training

Begins

Complete

Training

Oct 31

Go

Live!

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Project Teams

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Name Role Department

Ann Fogerty Clinical Informatics Spec. Clinical Information Services

Paul Iseminger Pharmacy Informatics Pharmacy

Brian Brown Informatics Clinical Informatics

Dr Carl Peterson Anesthesiologist Anesthesia

Kristi Conner Manager Surgery Admitting, Conscious Sedation, PACU

Holly Simmons ANM Surgicenter

Jennifer Paxton ANM Women’s Health

Billie Olson Surgery Office Supervisor Surgical Services

Karina Washabaugh Staff RN/Champion Surgery Admitting

Sayaka Mitsutake Analyst Clinical Information System

Eric Carlson Analyst Clinical Information System

Ashley Macias Circulator/Surgical Educator Surgical Services

Bryce Romans Analyst Clinical Information System

Petra Huber Trainer Clinical Information System

Mark Bame Informatics Surgical Services

Core Project Team

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Questions?

Dave Potter, Project Manager (VM),

Cerner Anesthesia resources:

• Dr. Carl Peterson

• Mark Bame, Informatics, x3908

• Sayaka Mitsutake, Applications Analyst

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Together for Good