Features

Risk Management

Improve the quality and safety of patient care.

Emergency department clinicians and nurses work hard to provide the very best possible care to everyone who comes through the doors.  They rely on the latest technology, medical equipment and medicines to provide the superior care. With modern medicine more information intensive than ever before, caregivers are relying on information technology as an integral part of the practice of medicine. In the emergency department, a quality clinical decision support application can be one of the most critical tools for the ED clinician.

Allscripts ED Risk Management provides clinicians and nurses with one of the most comprehensive and powerful decision support tools available. By presenting the caregiver with potentially high-risk differential diagnoses or procedural considerations, Allscripts ED Risk Management helps improve the quality and safety of patient care, while reducing risk of medical errors and litigation. Strategically placed reminders throughout the charting application are unobtrusive, passive reminders for critical risk management information at the point where clinicians and nurses are most likely to need it – and use it.

Advisories and information when the clinician needs it most

  • Evidence-based information and advisories for physicians, mid-level providers and nurses.
  • Reminders of critical, clinical risk considerations and differential diagnoses are passively presented real-time at key points of care.
  • Highlights high-risk areas or patient safety concerns.
  • Brief descriptions of differential diagnoses findings are available with a single mouse click.
  • Full-page tutorials on high-risk elements of management of a complaint provides additional information to be considered, and provides a bibliography of the most important papers published on a particular topic, many of which are hyperlinked.

Reminders and Tutorials to Improve Patient Care

  • Chief complaint driven
  • Filtered by age and gender
  • Presented at critical points of care

Emergency Medicine Nursing Tutorials

  • Nursing-specific risk management strategies embedded into nurse charting.
  • Consistent with ENA standards.
  • Tools formatted as:
    • Triage-Primary Survey
    • Secondary Survey
    • Recommendations
  • Guides best practices model of care and assures care is well-documented.