MEDITECH
Operating Room Management
product brief

MEDITECH's Operating Room Management application is designed to provide functionality for all aspects of running a hospital operating room including:
   • Materials management
   • Scheduling
   • Clinical documentation
   • Complete statistical and reporting capabilities

In addition, the system automatically calculates billing charges based upon a set of rules established by the individual organization.

Highlights:
The application provides routines for:
   • Operating room scheduling
   • Scheduling equipment and resources
   • Printing daily operating lists
   • Documenting pre-op instructions and assessments
   • Tracking patient risks
   • Entering real-time peri-operative documentation
   • Managing inventory
   • Generating surgeon preference cards with costing information
   • Tracking implants.

Standard Features

Routines
The application provides routines for:
• Operating room scheduling
• Scheduling equipment and resources
• Printing daily operating lists
• Documenting pre-op instructions and assessments
• Tracking patient risks
• Entering real-time peri-operative documentation
• Managing inventory
• Generating surgeon preference cards with costing information
• Tracking implants.

Scheduling
The application accommodates all aspects of scheduling by:
• Scheduling the visit, physician, room, and equipment from a single entry point
• Checking for scheduling conflicts with:
   – patient's schedule
   – physician's schedule
   – equipment availability
   – room availability.
• Calculating the average time it takes each physician to perform a specific procedure
• Maintaining physician privileges/specialties on-line
• Maintaining patient's confidential status during scheduling, based upon Registration parameters.

Preference Cards
Preference cards provide support to surgeons with features such as:
• Real-time updating and changing cost analysis
• Continuous analysis of surgical suite inventory and cost management
• Reports for analyzing usage and turnover
• Implant tracking routines:
   – document implant in the patient's profile
   – track device expiration date
   – records device serial number
   – continuous analysis of surgical suite inventory and cost management
   – simplified "Just-In-Time" inventory through picks generation list.

Surgical Profile
Surgical Profile features include:
• Ability to view nursing assessments from pre-testing to recovery
• Routines for identifying and maintaining patient risks for future care
• Reports for capturing outcome data used in risk management and quality assurance
• Ability to document deferred cases.

Documentation
The application allows users to document the entire peri-operative episode. The system automatically captures who entered the information and the time of documentation. The information that is entered becomes part of the patient's surgical profile, as well as part of the statistical database of operating room events.

Reporting
Some standard reports included in the application include:
• Operating lists
• Daily log
• Acuity lists
• Delayed cases
• Unplanned cases
• Procedure counts
• Complications reports
• Anesthesia reports
• Block utilization
• Surgical profile audit trail.

An additional Compiled Report feature allows users to create their own reports.

Billing
The application also provides facilities with the ability to automatically generate billing information for operating room use. Users define the costs related to surgical cases including:
• Procedure
• Equipment use
• Operating room time
• Clinician rates
• Anesthesia or other drugs administered during surgery.

Other billing features include the ability to have preference card data automatically sent to the billing system and flat-rate charging capabilities.

Inventory Control
In order to assist operating room personnel in managing their inventories, the application:
• Generates pick lists based upon what was specified at the time the appointment was booked, and what is specified on the preference cards
• Prints pick lists by room(s), date(s), surgeon(s), specialty, or patient(s) and sorts by inventory, inventory location, or materials management location
• Provides flexibility within the pick list routines so that hospitals print pick lists using the criteria that best matches the inventory set-up
• Supports "Just-In-Time" inventory
• Prints pick lists in Central Supply or Materials Management, allowing for greater communication among departments
• Offers the ability to combine preference cards for patients having multiple surgeries, thereby avoiding the issuance of duplicate items and costs.

Operating Room Management runs under Microsoft Windows NT® format on an Intel® based server and is available to customers running the Client/Server Release of MEDITECH's Health Care Information System (HCIS). Operating Room Management is also available to customers running the MAGIC Release of MEDITECH's HCIS and integrates tightly with MEDITECH's MAGIC software applications.

Client/Server HCIS
Health care organizations running the Client/Server Release of MEDITECH's HCIS realize additional functionality by integrating Operating Room Management with the following applications:
• Order Entry: sets up unverified orders
• Materials Management: creates on-line requisitions to manufacturers
• Community-Wide Scheduling: identifies patient and resource conflicts
• Registration Scheduling: creates an account in the Registration system
• Medical Records: updates patient's visit history with operating room visit information.

The application also offers integration with MEDITECH's Enterprise Medical Record and Executive Support System applications.

MAGIC HCIS
Health care organizations running the MAGIC Release of MEDITECH's HCIS realize additional functionality by integrating Operating Room Management with the following applications:
• Registration: creates account in Registration application, which is accessed by Operating Room Management
• Community-Wide Scheduling: identifies patient conflicts
• Medical Records: updates patient's visit history with operating room visit information
• Billing/Accounts Receivable: processes charges for staff time, procedures, operating times, supplies, and equipment
• Patient Care Inquiry: displays surgical profile information from Operating Room Management.

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MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
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Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
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