Medsphere Systems Corporation and Silver Hill Hospital this week introduced an improved Discharge Summary module as the most recent innovation of Medsphere’s OpenVista EHR built specifically for behavioral health hospitals. Designed in close collaboration with clinicians at Silver Hill, OpenVista Discharge Summary (DSum) both automates the summary creation process and gives Silver Hill clinicians greater control over how the final discharge summary looks and what patient information it includes.
Built on proprietary documentation technology with both desktop and mobile applications, DSum reduces the time required to create the document by automatically pulling patient history and diagnostic information from early hospitalization, as well as laboratory data and discharge medications from later in the treatment process. The DSum module meet’s Silver Hill’s goals of having a polished, uniform document that accurately represents the hospital’s standards of excellence and rapidly conveys patient status to subsequent treating physicians.
On a broader, system-wide scale, DSum adheres to continuity-of-care documentation goals now widely embraced as a key component in improving care and eliminating redundant testing and information. When combined with Medsphere’s suite of pre-built interfaces and an open access platform, OpenVista can readily achieve full interoperability with any systems and applications willing to collaborate.
“This new DSum functionality reflects in detail the quality care Silver Hill provides and it quickly brings external physicians up to speed on patients treated here,” said Silver Hill President and Medical Director Sigurd Ackerman, MD. “DSum also streamlines the whole discharge process—our goal is now to get most discharge summaries out within 24 hours of discharge—and saves our clinicians the time of manually assembling all the information we want to pass along. Once again, we’re very pleased to have a partner in Medsphere that enables us to enhance our own system for the needs of our clinicians and patients.”
With Medsphere’s unique subscription-based business and collaborative developmental model, the company works closely with individual partner hospitals to develop new functionality and enhancements to OpenVista that are then incorporated into subsequent releases and made available to all customers moving forward. Medsphere also performs quality assurance and system testing of appropriate customer-developed enhancements before folding into later releases of OpenVista.
Previously, Medsphere and Silver Hill worked together on a Multi-disciplinary Treatment Plan (MDTP) module that coordinates mental health care across members of the care team and supports patient progress management, eliminating the need to scour and cross-reference a library of paper records.
