Medcurrent Orderright Radiology Decision Support Selected By Atlanticare
MedCurrent Corporation, a leading provider of clinical decision support solutions ( http://www.medcurrent.com/ ), today announced that AtlantiCare, the largest healthcare provider in southeastern New Jersey, has chosen MedCurrent’s OrderRight ( http://www.medcurrent.com/Solutions.html ) Radiology Decision Support system. Integrated within PowerChart module of Cerner Corporation’s Millennium™ electronic medical record (EMR) ordering system, OrderRight provides optimal workflow for the ordering clinician, and is designed to enhance patient care planning and treatment, reduce inappropriate healthcare utilization, and lower costs.
Having OrderRight fully integrated into the Cerner system allows patient-specific information within the EMR to be utilized to trigger the system’s clinical rule sets so that upon ordering, physicians are presented with patient-specific recommended options along with embedded clinical rationale. This contributes to physicians delivering diagnostic care more efficiently.
The first rule set the system utilizes is the ACR Select™ appropriateness criteria in its baseline format, along with the system’s patent-pending Rule Authoring Studio (http://www.medcurrent.com/Solutions.html )™ which provides administrative tools that allow each provider organization to modify and customize the appropriateness rules to meet their local needs and standards of practice. With this feature, new rules and criteria can easily be created and clinically tested for consideration before being added into their system’s rule set. OrderRight Data Analytics™, a module that provides a view of ordering behaviors and rule compliance from various macro and micro levels, enhances the organization’s ability to ensure clinically-appropriate ordering and support appropriate medical review and action.
“Our OrderRight system is a tool that assists care teams in ordering the most appropriate imaging for patients,” said Steve Herman, MedCurrent’s founder and Chief Medical Officer. “Having patient-specific ordering recommendations in seconds, along with an explanation of the clinical rationale, enhances information physicians need when making diagnostic decisions. We’re pleased AtlantiCare’s has chosen this technology,” said Dr. Herman.