Emergency Care

Sunrise Emergency Care™ from Eclipsys delivers end-to-end emergency department (ED) management that helps hospitals reduce the overall wait time and length of stay (LOS), ensures ED physicians can see patients faster, and drives department revenue.

Time is of critical importance to EDs — and when the ED staff isn’t working with the most complete information, they are unable to move as quickly as necessary to address patient needs. Many emergency department management software solutions on the market today do not successfully share information with the hospital’s other information systems, resulting in a fragmented picture of a patient’s condition leading to administrative delays caused by lack of communication and resources and long wait times for missing information.

Because Sunrise Emergency Care is fully integrated with the hospital’s Sunrise Clinical Manager™ clinical information solution, ED physicians and nurses can make decisions according to the most up-to-date patient information, including access to documentation from past ED visits and outpatient appointments — maximizing electronic health record benefits. Physicians can more effectively investigate and diagnosis patient conditions, order the proper tests and procedures, and treat their patients with a more holistic view for improved patient care outcomes — all while eliminating long delays.

The ability to see and treat more patients, and to prevent patients leaving due to long wait times, also drives increased revenue for the ED.

Prioritizing and pushing through patient care

Sunrise Emergency Care delivers all of the eight components identified by KLAS as essential for emergency department system healthcare IT solutions, including:

• Patient and triage tracking. Using the interactive, electronic Sunrise Tracking Board, information is projected on a large display for real-time, rules-based visibility into acuity levels, locations, orders, results, bed assignments and resource allocation.
• Nurse documentation and charting. Integrated, evidence-based decision support lets nurses order tests during intake and triage based on the symptoms of commonly seen conditions. Orders-to-flowsheet functionality automatically documents new orders on the flowsheet.
• Physician documentation and charting. Structured notes based on chief complaints and order sets for a number of common conditions help ED physicians document care quickly, accurately and consistently for effective reporting. Test results, medications and discharge instructions are always at hand, allowing the physician to concentrate on treatment decisions and communicating diagnosis and instructions to the patient.
• Clinical decision support. With views and workflows specific to the ED, clinicians work directly with preconfigured order sets and documentation templates based on advanced clinical guidelines at the bedside as part of their normal workflow.
• Order entry. Orders placed in the ED are immediately available to caregivers and ancillary departments, reducing turnaround time from placement to administration of orders. Lab results are routed to the clinician on duty for follow-up after a patient has left the ED, even if a different physician ordered the tests.
• Computer physician order entry (CPOE) solutions. The No. 1 most-adopted CPOE system from Eclipsys allows ED physicians to leverage more than 250 order sets that promote best practices for more effective outcomes and an advanced order and result item catalog for clinician-friendly terminology built into the system.
• Results reporting. Sunrise Emergency Care captures real-time clinical data results allowing clinicians to quickly view information and make timely and effective critical decisions to positively impact patient care. Reporting helps EDs improve throughput and drive measurable patient care outcomes. Data is viewable in several formats and can automatically be incorporated in the clinical documentation. A range of operational, standardized reports make it easier for EDs to comply with regulatory reporting as well as internal quality initiatives.
• Patient discharge. Sunrise Emergency Care discharge documentation and clinical support from MedQuest’s ExitCare, the leading patient discharge information and education system, enables EDs to manage effective discharge planning for increased patient safety and department efficiency. With more than 2,100 titles available for ED clinicians to address the patient education component, the discharge process can be completed in an accurate and efficient manner.

Outcomes leadership from Eclipsys

Discover how Sunrise Emergency Care can give physicians and nurses real-time visibility and automated, intelligent support to move patients quickly through the ED and make better informed decisions, promoting real, measurable clinical and operational outcomes. Learn more about our outcomes leadership or contact us today to get more information and schedule a demo with an Eclipsys representative.