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The story of a Midwest integrated health delivery system and Crossings Healthcare Solutions started at the Cerner Health Conference in the fall of 2015. By the next summer, the “Provider Workflow Optimization (PWO) Project” was underway with an early 2017 live date and the start of significant cost savings for the health system.

We look forward to connecting with you at Booth #800, from October 9-12, where we will showcase our clients’ experiences with the Crossings’ solutions, as well as demonstrations of our tools.

Hospitals and physicians are increasingly being measured on the quality of care delivered and metrics such as severity of illness (SOI), risk of mortality, observed/expected mortality, and length of stay. Metric and quality scores are dependent on accurate, quality physician documentation of the patient’s clinical condition.

If you have ever been hospitalized or visited someone in the hospital, you’ve no doubt seen the unit whiteboard at the nurse’s station. It is usually filled with patient information that is barely recognizable, given accidental erasures, different handwriting styles and dried out markers. But the new Crossings-developed Inpatient Tracking Board (EBoard) is changing all of that.

“When you consult with us, you are enlisting the expertise of a team of project leaders, subject matter experts, informaticists, programmers, clinicians and designers with experience implementing solutions within a variety of healthcare settings,” says Justin Monnig, General Manager of Crossings. “We’ll partner with you to design, build and launch the solutions you need to make your organization successful.

In January 2016, North Kansas City Hospital (NKCH) in Kansas City, Missouri went live with the Dynamic and Summary Views of Crossings’ Patient Care Dashboard, Phase II of the engagement. From the beginning, the new views were a hit with clinicians at the hospital. Michelle Sullivan, RN, demonstrated the views to senior teams at NKCH before go-live. “We showed the enhancements to the nursing leadership team, who responded with applause and high praise. They really like the additions,” Sullivan says.

Crossings Healthcare Solutions offered hospitals around the country the chance to win a custom MPage within the Cerner Millennium® system, based on an innovative idea or solution to a need. The lucky recipient of the “Win Your Dream MPage” contest was Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California. An excerpt from their entry read:

The Cerner Southeast Regional User Group Conference was held in Charlotte, NC, and hosted by Carolinas HealthCare System. Seventeen healthcare organizations participated and presented information to 82 client attendees.