Wolters Kluwer Health announces release of new health care software

Aug 5 2009

Wolters Kluwer Health today unveiled ProVation® Care Plans, an innovative software solution that arms nurses, pharmacists, therapists and other caregivers with the actionable evidence they need to effectively enhance practice, improve patient safety and demonstrate compliance with credentialing and regulatory standards.

The new offering, which will deliver more than 200 clinical care plans, provides nursing interventions; embedded links to current evidence, performance, measures and quality indicators; vendor-neutral EMR and clinical information system integration; and clinical terms based on standard medical vocabularies.

ProVation Care Plans were built by a team of expert clinicians, in partnership with the experts at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), the leading international publisher of nursing information such as the American Journal of Nursing, Nursing Drug Handbook and Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures & Skills. ProVation Care Plans enable hospitals to make the most informed decisions through point of care access to disease and symptom information, and supporting evidence from Wolters Kluwer Health sources like UpToDate, which reduces the risk for error and liability, helps to establish clinical consensus on standards of care, and improves patient care and safety. Through ProVation Care Plans, clinicians and facilities also have one-click access to the Ovid journals to which they subscribe.

“Only Wolters Kluwer Health offers a Care Plan solution that is backed by more than 200 years of publishing experience and delivers clinical content and decision support from the foremost brands in healthcare,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “By combining ProVation Medical’s leading edge technology with trusted information from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, evidence and literature from UpToDate, and direct linking to full-text articles and journal subscriptions from Ovid, ProVation Care Plans offers an unsurpassed combination of best-of-breed technology and content.”

Interdisciplinary care teams can use ProVation Care Plans to customize, modify and maintain care plans to meet the needs of the facility or different patient populations; create educational programs, procedures and guidelines based on recent evidence; and comply with credentialing and standards for Joint Commission and other regulatory bodies.

ProVation Care Plans are available as a standalone product or in conjunction with ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, the innovative order set development solution that combines ProVation Medical’s award-winning technology platform with UpToDate’s superior clinical decision support content. ProVation Order Sets streamline the delivery of standardized care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance.

“The in-house team of nurses, pharmacists, physicians, coders and other clinicians that work to develop Wolters Kluwer Health’s point-of-care solutions is unrivaled in the industry,” said Subramanian. “ProVation products enjoy a 95% clinician adoption rate, UpToDate is used my more than 360,000 clinicians, and Lippincott is the recognized leader in nursing information. Together, they create a product that ensures high

clinician utilization and satisfaction, which allows hospitals to achieve immediate efficiency and rapid return on investment.”

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