Recent News: St. Joseph Health System Optimizes Surgery Management Across IDN with Picis Total Perioperative Automation Solution

Picis to centralize data, integrate records and provide OR and anesthesia analytics

WAKEFIELD, MA, July 12, 2010 — Picis announced today that St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) in Orange, Calif., one of the largest integrated delivery networks (IDNs) in the United States, has selected Picis perioperative and anesthesia information management solutions for 13 facilities and an estimated 81 operating rooms (ORs) as the standard across the IDN. This enables SJHS to consolidate six different databases into a single integrated total perioperative automation solution using Picis technology to capture, compare, benchmark, and share meaningful data across the enterprise. SJHS anticipates significant operational improvements and a return on investment of millions of dollars from improved OR management, billing and reimbursement, improved clinician and patient satisfaction and standardization of the patient record.

"By selecting Picis for all of our hospitals’ operating rooms, we can drive process improvements, combine resources, use analytics to optimize cost savings, and efficiencies and drive best practices in the quality of care we provide throughout the enterprise,”  says Jim McManus, Vice President of Finance, St. Joseph Health System. “Interoperability is critical and Picis is helping us bring together information in meaningful ways across care areas, such as OR and anesthesia management, as well as across the enterprise.”

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