PediNotes is a tool designed by neonatologists and pediatricians to make our clinical tasks easier and more efficient. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our unique EMR with added features, seamless experiences, and a user-friendly interface that saves our clinicians time. We recently implemented two new features into PediNotes to improve everyday processes in our hospitals: Auto-Admit and Auto-Order.
These two features are invaluable to our clinical teams. Both run automatically in PediNotes to admit patients and complete orders based on your specified parameters. Through powerful interoperability, these features work with MEDITECH by pulling in the data you’re collecting in your EMR to complete admissions and orders seamlessly within PediNotes.
New PediNotes Feature: Auto-Admission
With seamless auto-admissions, clinicians no longer need to waste time inputting patient information into software to complete the admissions process. Our auto-admission process pulls both mother and infant data into PediNotes from your hospital’s EMR to auto-admit patients and assign them to your specified locations.
Neonatal information is used to determine the patient’s template in PediNotes, and the maternal information is pulled into the patient’s notes. The PediNotes HL7 viewer shows all of the information being collected and organized from the mother and baby. You can view this as the auto-admit script is running in the background of PediNotes.
While the auto-admission process is running, you are also able to click on the patient being admitted to view medical history and other details.
With auto-admission, maternal and neonatal information fields are populated with data from the mother’s chart and infant delivery information. Using parameters you specify, PediNotes will populate pregnancy, birth, nutritional, neonatal diagnoses and care plans which are specific to gestational age. Powerful clinical decision support ensures that appropriate diagnoses are entered on each patient saving a clinician’s time and improving patient care.
New PediNotes Feature: Auto-Order
Auto-order is another feature we’ve added to PediNotes to save time and make processes easier for clinicians. You have full control to create and customize plans in PediNotes for every ICD-10 diagnosis. Each plan can be configured as text or an auto-order plan. Plans designated as auto-order can be configured to place orders for a specific time(s) or on user-customized schedules.
Auto-order makes CPOE more efficient. For example, in an infant with jaundice, common plans such as “single bank phototherapy” or bilirubin (AM/PM) will automatically order the equipment and labs. Plans can be continued on a daily basis, modified to another plan, converted to text only or discontinued with a single click. There is no need to leave the Diagnosis/Care Plan page for CPOE.
The auto-order feature saves time and is very customizable, giving you more opportunities to make PediNotes compatible with the way you work in your nursery.
We’ve developed PediNotes as a tool to help you take better care of your patients by improving efficiency and communication within your clinical team. If you have ideas for new features in PediNotes, we are always happy to hear them. Send us an email at info@pedinotes.com or give us a call at (225) 214-6421. You can also subscribe to our email list to be notified as we roll out more updates to our neonatal EMR.
