Eliminating mistakes, using Columna

Systematic Columna helps reduce incorrect treatments and increases patient safety.

Information that is delayed or poorly structured, poor internal communication, errors when transferring information from one system to another, the lack of overview, misinterpreted handwriting and the slow spread of new knowledge and best practice. All these are potential causes of errors within hospital procedures.

Systematic Columna helps reduce the number of incorrect treatments and increases patient safety, by tackling these kinds of issues.

Collates, presents and provides an overview

Columna improves information and communication in hospitals, contributing to increased patient safety. The system gathers all relevant clinical information about the patient in a single system, and presents this information in a way that provides healthcare professionals with an excellent overview.

Physicians and nursing staff are often in a situation in which it is important to prioritise between a range of tasks associated with several different patients. Columna provides the necessary overview for individual patients, including current as well as previous treatment pathways, and for complete groups of patients.

Sharing information across professional groups

Columna is a true multi-disciplinary records system. It makes it possible for all the professional groups involved to share the same information, including observations, prescriptions, notes, etc. This means information travels around the organisation in an appropriate, secure and rapid way.

As a result, Columna helps prevent inappropriate or delayed action in connection with incorrect data entry, or because information arrives too late.

Supports the decision-making process

Columna helps physicians make the right decisions, e.g. in connection with prescribing medication. Columna’s integrated validation tool can be set to warn physicians if they prescribe a drug that should not be prescribed for patients with a specific condition.

Full control of medication

In addition to checking the interaction between drugs and patients suffering from specific conditions, Columna provides effective monitoring that patients receive exactly the medicine prescribed by the physician.

Treatment based on the latest knowledge

Healthcare know-how is in a process of continual development, with new knowledge emerging all the time. This process is often so rapid that hospitals have difficulty in updating their routines and procedures so that this new knowledge can be included in treatments and patient care. Systematic Columna contributes to reducing this knowing/doing gap.

The newest methods and procedures can be included in Columna as pre-defined care pathways that physicians and nursing staff can follow when prescribing treatment. This makes it possible to implement the most recent know-how in efficient, consistent ways in all departments.

Efficient planning and coordination

The lack of efficient planning, communication and coordination in cases where examination and treatment involves different departments is a significant source of errors and inappropriate action.

The Columna booking module, and the integrated care pathways this provides, enables healthcare professionals to make planning of these care pathways more efficient.