Reduce administrative burden through automated wavestrip workflows

Philips wavestrip workflow solutions reduce time spent on administrative tasks, freeing up more time for patient care

In the search for solutions around staff efficiency and burnout, improving clinical documentation workflows can be an overlooked area. Clinical resources often find themselves having to choose between completion of mandatory administrative tasks at the expense of hands on patient care. Bottlenecks at the central station are commonplace where, once printed, exporting of patient waveforms into hospital’s EMR happen regularly, at end of day or at shift change causing further frustration and introducing the possibility of issues related to policy adherence and charting accuracy.

Additionally, as mobile browsers and devices continue to positively impact hospital workflows everywhere, documentation solutions have been slow to integrate these devices. Clinicians want data and documentation workflows to happen wherever they may be and not have to make unnecessary trips to the nurse’s station.

Philips continues to innovate in these areas specifically around solving for frustrating manual, paper-based workflows that continue to weigh on stretched clinical staff. The wavestrip export feature has long helped clinicians automate the labor intensive tasks of printing, cutting, pasting and scanning wavestrips and in PIC iX 4.0 we continue to evolve to meet customer needs:

• Removes the task of printing paper strips and scanning to document patient waveforms
  
• Link vitals to the wavestrip to provide added contextual information
  
• Supports EMR workflow, allows clinicians to click on a URL within the EMR to launch a wavestrip workflow
  
• Supports saving waveforms directly from a mobile device and web app
  
• Export and annotate from the central station or web directly to the EMR
  
• Allows electronic caliper measurements to be saved with rhythm label and comments
  
• Can show alarms and up to 20 waveforms