Drive Clinical and Financial Performance with an Anesthesia Information Management system that helps Anesthesiologists Focus on the Patient

1. McKesson Anesthesia Care™
An anesthesia information management system that helps
anesthesiologists focus on the patient — while accurately
documenting and optimizing clinical and financial outcomes

2. Drive Clinical and
Financial Performance
best Practices Both hospitals and anesthesiologists for both anesthesiologists and
face increasing pressures to hospitals. Inadequate recording of
- Access to academic databases improve patient care while cutting comorbid conditions costs hospitals
provides real-time evaluation costs. More than 47% of hospitals three times the dollars lost to
for best standards of care report a reduction in operating medication errors alone.
room hours due to anesthesia
- Documentation of medications staffing challenges . Caregivers
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McKesson Anesthesia Care
utilizing First Databank drug must work more efficiently, automatically codes changes in
formulary supports medication eliminating unnecessary manual severity levels and diagnostic-
administration compliance procedures while safeguarding related groups for billing, helping
against medical errors. hospitals avoid potential losses.
- Medication reconciliation
between care clinicians McKesson Anesthesia Care™ is an
supports regulatory compliance Improve care with codified Data
intuitive, web-based anesthesia
management system designed A sophisticated coding tool within
- Integration with preoperative to meet these challenges. McKesson Anesthesia Care uses
and PAcu documentation The comprehensive solution both AMA and ASA schemas to
enables seamless patient care automatically monitors specify comorbid conditions, such as
patients, reveals medication hypertension, that require higher
- Throughput data and reporting contraindication, provides allergy levels of care. The tool populates
improves decision analysis and notification and speeds billing the corresponding ICD-9 and ICD-10
outcome measurements via effective charge capture — codes, allowing the provider to accept
driving better clinical and or reject them before billing system
- Professional billing component financial performance. submission. McKesson Anesthesia
captures accurate anesthesia Care employs the SNOMED CT
charges for proper, timely (Systematized Nomenclature of
billing Improve Patient safety Medicine-Clinical Terms) terminology
Clinicians are able to document to ensure that care records can be
intraoperative activities in real easily transferred and integrated.
time — not after the surgery is
complete. By supporting fast, Manage Proactively with
accurate documentation that Anesthesia Analytics
can be easily integrated with the
hospital’s electronic health record Data is of little value if it cannot
(EHR), McKesson Anesthesia Care be accessed and understood by all
ensures that clinicians have all stakeholders. McKesson Anesthesia
the information they need during Care employs secure, web-based
critical patient handoffs. technology to provide performance
analytics of organizational and
clinical trends, including utilization,
Accurately Document quality and cost. Information is
comorbid conditions delivered in convenient, customizable
McKesson Anesthesia Care ensures formats, allowing trend analysis down
proper documentation of comorbid to the physician and case level.
conditions, resulting in fewer
rejected claims and faster payments

3. Users can access data such as care. Sharing real-time patient Hospital benefits:
case volumes, milestones and information allows for optimum care
drug utilization, along with time at points of handoff, and prevents - Automated capture of physiological
intervals, time units and important time wasted updating clinical values. data helps complete eMR
messaging, such as contraindications.
Scorecards compare summarized - Real-time integration across
eliminate Manual Data entry perioperative care phases enhances
information with previous measures
or user-defined targets, allowing Patient physiological data – such as patient safety during transitions
easy performance analysis. Quick gas administration, times and vital
identification of downward trends signs – is automatically captured from - cross-checking for adverse drug
enables decisive intervention. physiologic monitors, establishing events helps reduce errors
an accurate electronic record and
eliminating error-prone manual - Accurate documentation of comorbid
Avoid Adverse Drug events data entry. Anesthesiologists are conditions helps maximize revenue
The Institute of Medicine reports free to focus on delivering excellent
that 1.5 million patients are harmed patient care. By providing a trajectory - Anesthesia analytics promotes
by drug errors every year . These of each patient’s progress and the compliance with Physician Quality
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medication errors add an average interventions required, McKesson Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and
of $8,750 to the cost of the typical Anesthesia Care helps anesthesiologists surgical care Improvement Project
inpatient hospital visit . By helping demonstrate their true value to (scIP) initiatives
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clinicians anticipate adverse drug patient care.
events, McKesson Anesthesia
Care improves both outcomes Improve Reimbursement Physician benefits:
and financials. Anesthesiologists
can evaluate medications prior Electronic sign-on of the anesthesia - Web-based preanesthesia
to delivery, recording both drug record in preoperative and evaluations speed documentation
type and dosage. Physicians can PACU settings ensures accurate of patient history
avoid adverse drug events with an documentation of anesthesia
automated, qualified cross-reference beginning and end units, enabling the - bar-code reading of patient,
process for dispensed medications, capture of all appropriate professional medications and supplies expedites
including formulary reference for fees. Complete documentation speeds data entry
allergies and medications. both the billing and revenue collection
processes, enhancing satisfaction for - Prophylactic antibiotic alerts promote
both private and hospital-employed timely medication administration
Provide Real-time Integration anesthesia groups.
Anesthesiologists require tools - Drug formulary reference for
that enable efficiency without allergies and medication promotes
contact McKesson Today
impeding care delivery. Touch- patient safety
screen charting guides the physician To learn more about how McKesson
through accurate documentation of Anesthesia Care helps anesthesiologists - Physician-specific note templates
both short and lengthy procedures. focus on the patient while optimizing speed procedural documentation
Integration across the phases clinical and financial outcomes, contact
of perioperative care, including your client executive or visit - seamless integration with nursing
preoperative, intraoperative and www.mckesson.com/anesthesiology. and surgical electronic medical
PACU, provides for seamless patient records promotes continuity of care
- Anesthesia professional coding tool
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2008 survey by American Society of Anesthesiologists, cited by HFMA Educational Report, Driving Value in improves professional fee capture
Anesthesia Services, June 2010.
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Institute of Medicine, Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series, www.iom.edu
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4. AbouT McKesson
McKesson Corporation, currently
ranked 14th on the FORTUNE 500, is
a healthcare services and information
technology company dedicated to
helping its customers deliver
high-quality healthcare by reducing
costs, streamlining processes, and
improving the quality and safety
of patient care. Over the course of
its 177-year history, McKesson has
grown by providing pharmaceutical
and medical-surgical supply
management across the spectrum
of care; healthcare information
technology for hospitals, physicians,
homecare and payers; hospital and
retail pharmacy automation; and
services for manufacturers and payers
designed to improve outcomes for
patients. For more information, visit
http://www.mckesson.com.
McKesson Provider Technologies
5995 Windward Parkway
Alpharetta, GA 30005
www.mckesson.com/anesthesiology
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