More time for patients

Simplifying treatment and improving efficiency in hospitals

Sluggish administrative processes, high-intensity communication, lack of access to patient records, lack of updating in relation to the most recent know-how, the need to create overviews manually and multiple entry of the same information. These few examples are just indications of the huge potential for increasing efficiency within the healthcare sector.

Systematic Columna contributes to simplifying work processes in hospitals, and making them more efficient.

Constant access to patient records

A Columna solution makes sure patient records are always available to all the relevant healthcare professionals from any IT workstation, as and when the information is needed. Systematic Columna does away with requisitioning, transporting or searching for patient records. The information is only a key click away.

Advanced support for prescription, booking and planning

Columna contributes to the collated coordination and planning of care pathways, based on agreed standards. As soon as a patient’s primary problem has been identified, the healthcare professional can use Columna to quickly and easily implement a complete pathway for all relevant types of activity, including medication, blood tests, operations and nursing observations.

These integrated care pathways ensure that healthcare professionals follow the latest treatment standards and best practice, and the care pathways can also support inter-departmental courses of treatment.

Automatic updates of task lists

Efficiency also means generating the required overviews and prioritising tasks for all of the patients in a department. Columna generates and updates such task lists automatically. On the basis of information within the records of individual patients, Columna also generates task lists that provide overviews of which tasks have to be carried out for which patients, when and by whom.

Overview of medication actually available

Efficiency can also mean ensuring that physicians prescribe drugs that are already present in a department, rather than other drugs not currently available or at hand. The special medication module supports recommendations and standard lists, as well as substitution, thus helping keep medication costs down.

Using the same information throughout the organisation

In Columna, there is one single record for each patient. This means all the healthcare staff share the same information. This can, for example, save nursing staff from having to manually transfer medication information from physicians’ records to individual medication forms.

At the same time, the information that healthcare staff register in Columna about patients’ arrivals and subsequent discharge is available for administrative staff. This means there is no need to re-enter the same information.

Once entered, the data can be quickly and easily also used for reports and billing. Data from patient records can also be extracted and used for quality assurance and research purposes, providing leverage for development of health services.