MS4 & Vision – Vision User Group Conference 2010 – In Full Swing

Learn to define and run new reports from MS4 Advanced Clinical applications. Examine reports such as the Supervisor Worksheet, Discharge Summary, and Shift Worksheet, and leave ready to install and use this function to its fullest.

Audience: Anyone needing to access and report on MS4 clinical application data.

Don’t just automate paper clinical documentation; come see how to build new online forms and uncover ways of looking at current practices to convert them into online assessments. Bring examples of existing clinical documentation forms for discussion in class.

Audience: Beginner – Clinical Informaticists

Explore methods to establish pertinent metrics by documenting current workflow and measuring manual effort before embarking on clinical system design and deployment or advancing existing technology. Define return on investment (ROI) for your organization while exploring a variety of tangible and intangible ROI opportunities. Participants will be provided real-world examples of Time & Motion Study, Return on Investment, Workflow Analysis, and other critical measurement tool formats.

Audience: No prior MS4 clinical product knowledge is required. Beneficial to executives, operations, finance, clinicians, and physicians attempting to understand the use of metrics in clinical IS deployment.

Recent enhancements to Clinical Suite include processes to support integration at many levels between Siemens Pharmacy and MedSeries4 Clinical Suite. These include a codified, bi-directional allergies interface, drug master/formulary interface to support physician med ordering, a bi-directional medication orders interface, and medication charting interface from Med Administration Check to MS4. Come learn the details of integrating and troubleshooting Siemens Pharmacy and MedSeries4 Clinical Suite, and bring your questions for our experts to answer.

Audience: Intermediate – Clinical Analysts, IT, and Pharmacy personnel interested in gaining knowledge of the detail-level integration set-up between Siemens Pharmacy and MedSeries4 Clinical Suite applications to enhance the Allergies and CPOE roll-out experience.

Are you planning to move to MS4’s Web-based clinical applications? Would you like a close-up view of key features and functions and the opportunity for some hands-on experience? Spend time with us exploring the user side of MS4 Clinical Suite and discover all it can offer your facility.

Audience: Beginners interested in automated clinical workflow.

Are you new to Clinical Suite or have you been around Clinical Suite but need some help managing it? This workshop teaches you the steps needed to set up Clinical Suite, the effects that file building has on its functions, and key elements to troubleshooting when the application doesn’t do what you expect.

NOTE: This class does NOT provide in-depth training on managing the WebSphere environment. Please see related workshops for detail on WebSphere education.

Audience: Beginning

Unravel the clinical database maze. Learn how clinical data is stored, how the different applications and files inter-relate, and where to find various pieces of patient data. Class materials include handouts of data file relationships and file layouts.

Audience: Intermediate – Requires an understanding of MS4 Clinical applications and iSeries objects.

Explore the exciting features and functions of MS4’s Web-based care plan product, Patient Care Management! Discover tricks for naming the care elements to assist with the organization of the care plan and see how it can be used as a great patient activity tracking tool. Get valuable hands-on experience with file maintenance, create your very own care set, and learn how to incorporate assessments to make plans of care truly interdisciplinary.

Audience: Beginners interested in automated clinical plans of care.

Hands-on exercises let you experience the flexibility of Patient Care Management in supporting clinical practice in your facility. Learn how to utilize various models of care planning and see how Patient Care Management can be use in combination with other MS4 applications to assist you with efforts to meet National Patient Safety Goals, collect core measures, and replace the paper form used for shift reporting while standardizing the end-of-shift handoff process. See how Patient Care Management utilizes charting-by-exception concepts and provides clinical guidelines, reminders, and checklists.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Patient Care Management, W06.

Audience: Intermediate – Requires an understanding of MS4 Clinical applications.

Recent enhancements to Clinical Suite incorporate processes to support the management of medications. These include codified allergies, online medication administration documentation, barcode medication administration, and bi-directional medication orders. Review the steps you can take now to get ready to implement these functions including decisions to be made, early process changes that can be implemented, and planning activates for which you need to be prepared.

Audience: Beginning – Clinical analysts and Pharmacy personnel interested in getting a head start on closed-loop Medication Management implementation activities.

The Policies and Procedures application enables you to manage your institution’s existing policies. Come see the many changes and improvements to this Web-based application. We’ll learn about many of the features, including:

• Routing for review and approval
• Assigning to readers
• Administration of quizzes for each policy
• Tracking the history of the policy
• "On Demand" reporting
• "Branch & Merge" function
• MS Word editor

We will also cover how to track and monitor policies as well as make sure your policies are tied to JCAHO and HIPAA standards.

Audience: Database administrators and those involved with administering, maintaining, and distributing hospital policies and procedures.

Gain the upper hand on the MS4 Repository as you gain practical experience in deciphering the magical world of HL7 transactions.

Audience: IT and clinical coordinators responsible for implementation and ongoing support of Advanced Clinicals applications.

Learn about the file maintenance requirements for MS4 and Novius Lab, and gain practical experience using troubleshooting tools between Novius Lab, MS4, and HL7.

Audience: This workshop is for anyone responsible for troubleshooting issues between MS4 and Novius Lab.

Help physicians manage the large amount of patient detail by tailoring their inbox to specific preferences. Learn the nuances of file maintenance and user-defined settings of this powerful function.

Audience: Intermediate – Clinical Informaticists

Be on a first name basis with your MS4 Clinical Repository. Understand the files and fields that make up the clinical database and learn how these determine what displays on the screen.

Audience: Excellent for Clinical Informaticists responsible for setting up and extracting data from this vast expanse of information.

MedSeries4 applications have a mandate to address the responsibility of guarding data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. This includes the processes that control and monitor patient protected health information (PHI) access. MS4’s Auditing feature complements existing hospital-specific policies and procedures through use of the General Purpose (GP) Audit Master file, the GP Audit Log Transaction file, and the GP Audit Log Purge program.

This workshop provides a review of all components of the General Purpose Auditing feature, including specifics of the audit trail that can be captured and potentially used to facilitate a security audit, and technical and end user information. Participants will be able to execute specific AR/ADT and MIRA features and track their steps in the audit log.

NOTE: The workshop does not focus on specific application functionality, but teaches users how specific functions in those applications capture audit information.

Audience: HIPAA compliance officers and any user who needs to electronically access protected health information (PHI).

At every stage of the decision-making process, misperceptions, biases, and other tricks of the mind can influence the choices we make. When you understand the components of a smart decision, you can examine mistakes you might have made in the past and avoid decision-making traps in the future. Mastering the art of critical decision making is the key to improving your life at home, at work, or in your community.

Audience: Everyone