How does PediNotes improve working in MEDITECH?

As a modular EMR, PediNotes is designed to sit on top of your hospital’s EMR to pull and organize data into a streamlined user interface, provide access to additional features, and improve your clinical team’s communication. PediNotes was developed in a MEDITECH environment, and its powerful interoperability has proven to be a valuable enhancement for the robust EMR.

The tools we have in PediNotes are very neonatal-specific. We’ve developed the software to access mother and infant data in real-time to suit our needs in the NICU. The way PediNotes is organized and the additional features it provides helps neonatologists work with an EMR in a way that makes sense with how we work in the NICU. All the information generated in PediNotes gets pulled into MEDITECH as well, including reports and notes, with seamless interoperability.

How does PediNotes improve user-centered design?

We all want to give great clinical care, but in today’s world there is so much information to digest, and it’s in so many different places. Interoperability allows us to bring all of this information from your hospital’s EMR together in PediNotes to make it easier to find and manipulate when you need it.

Our software is all about the end user. PediNotes was developed by neonatologists and clinicians in a NICU environment. We get new ideas for our program from people who actually use it including neonatologists, pediatric subspecialists, and other clinical and ancillary providers in the NICU. These users have had a major impact on the design of PediNotes and its user-centered design.

What neonatal features does PediNotes add to MEDITECH?

We developed PediNotes because the EMR tools that were available to us as neonatologists did not fulfill the needs we have in the NICU.

PediNotes was created to work with the unique ways we as neonatologists interact with our patients and their mothers. It has tools that we need to use on a daily basis. In PediNotes, you can order neonatal-specific tasks like all aspects of neonatal nutrition (bolus or gavage feedings, TPN) and let PediNotes perform detailed nutrition data for babies. Tracking and ordering the numerous respiratory changes of the NICU patient is simple with our respiratory CPOE system. Radiology studies from your hospital’s imaging system are displayed in PediNotes and a customizable neonatal formulary assures accurate dosing for the neonatal patient. You can also create custom growth charts in addition to the standard neonatal growth charts contained in PediNotes.

PediNotes allows you to work with multiple patient function tabs open simultaneously. Most users work with vitals, respiratory settings/labs, exams, orders, I/O, laboratory, and diagnosis tabs open at the same time to increase efficiency. Each user has the capability to create the information layout that works for them.

How is MEDITECH data improved in PediNotes?

With powerful interoperability, PediNotes seamlessly pulls and organizes data from multiple sources into one platform. PediNotes improves your level of access to this data because you can control where you see and how you manipulate the information.

Our in-program data analytics in PediNotes also allows you to answer your own questions by filtering through the data you need without having to consult a third party.

Why use PediNotes in addition to your hospital’s EMR?

Babies are not small adults, yet every EMR available tries to treat them as such. PediNotes should be used in the NICU because it gives your clinical team access to tools that are not available in commercial EMRs and are essential for neonatal and pediatric care.

The government recently issued a report about all the features that should be included in a neonatal EMR, and PediNotes is proud to already have a platform that has these capabilities. 

 PediNotes also gives neonatologists information the way that we were trained. Our improved user interface and customizable display will help increase your team’s efficiency, so they have more time to care for their patients.

What ROI can you expect from PediNotes?

The ROI with PediNotes starts with happier caregivers in the NICU. The teams we’ve seen use PediNotes are able to work more efficiently because our EMR has all of the tools they need.

 With PediNotes, Vermont Oxford Data extraction is also done with the push of a button. This saves hours of time inputting data and reviewing it to complete an ongoing, basic task in your practice.

PediAnalytics, our reporting tool within PediNotes, provides valuable data that can be used in conferences as well.

If you want to learn more about how MEDITECH works with PediNotes, send us an email at info@pedinotes.com, give us a call at (225) 214-6421, or sign up for a free demo. Our demo is very interactive. We’ll walk you through PediNotes and give you access to a cloud-based version of the program that you can use to manipulate patient information.

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