About Clinical Measures

Clinical Measures is a web-based intervention and error documentation and reporting tool designed to raise awareness of the economic impact clinicians have on healthcare costs. This easy-to-use system captures volumes of data, turns it into meaningful results, and then produces robust reports to identify potential areas for improvement, recognition, savings and much more.

Features and Benefits

Being a powerful, robust documentation and reporting tool, Clinical Measures provides a multitude of features for helping pharmacists to quantify errors in practice, giving users a realistic understanding of how clinical shortfalls contribute to lost revenue, increased cost, and increased time spent on corrections and ultimately, erosions in clinical quality.

• Regulatory Compliance: Assists in meeting Joint Commission and CMS requirements
  
• Clinical Documentation: Document virtually any clinical activity. The most common intervention types and consults are pre-populated into the system. Unit inspection and medication error forms also available.
  
• Customization: Group intervention documentation by type, outcome/savings, and other tasks. Record important notes and upload existing documents. Configure fields to include physician lists, hospital units, antibiograms and more.
  
• On-Demand Reporting: Generate reports based on your specified criteria.
  
• HIPAA Compliance: Leading encryption technology ensures data safety
  
• Benchmarking: Benchmark results against other Clinical Measures clients using quarterly executive reports
  
• Savings Strategies: Gather data for continuous quality improvement that impacts bottom line results (e.g., capture “dollars missed”)
  
• Clinical Calculators: Access calculators to assist in common medication-related tasks
  
• Direct Access to Data: Download data in the format of your choice – Excel, Access, SQL, etc.
  
• Rapid Rollout: Account set-up by our staff is quick and simple
  
• Unparalleled Support: Technical and clinical support plus staff training is available

Clinical Measures Benefits:

• Budget and Staff Justification: Produce detailed reports, including benchmarking and net financial impact of clinical services.
  
• Increased Quality of Care: Standardize interventions and other tasks to ensure the highest level of patient care.
  
• Recognized Cost Savings: Quickly identify important cost-saving opportunities; plus, no IT staff required for implementation, eliminating setup expense.
  
• Time Savings: Intuitive user interface speeds implementation and decreases documentation, compilation and reporting time
  
  

Implementation

Getting Started:

Step 1: Consultation
We’ll assign a dedicated liaison to you for setup, rollout, and future support.

Step 2: Configuration
Once we receive the information from the consultation, our pharmacy and IT staff will customize your account. For most facilities, this stage takes no more than three business days as we generate intervention, location, physician and pharmacist drop-down lists using your data.

Step 3: Review
Once configuration is complete, we’ll send you a startup package that includes access information, user accounts, and other vital information and your account will be populated with sample data using your physicians, pharmacists, and intervention types.

Step 4: Training
After setup is approved, we’ll help you train future Clinical Measures users. We provide free web-based training sessions. Training includes log-in, activity documentation, generating personal reports, and other important tasks. Unlimited web training is included with a subscription. Onsite training is available for an additional fee.

Step 5: Rollout
Once training is complete, we’ll work with your site administrator to ensure a smooth rollout. Upon request, we also offer posters, instructional cards, and other resources to encourage ongoing use of your clinical documentation system.

Timeline
The following chart illustrates the Clinical Measures implementation process:

Additional Modules

ADT-HL7 Data Submission

Manual data entry and submission can be both cumbersome and time consuming. Clinical Measures helps users to save that valuable time and effort by delivering the functionality to receive and process ADT information from your institution’s patient management system via an HL7 data feed. 

The ADT data feed allows Clinical Measures users to search for patients by name, patient ID or location within the hospital. The data populates documents used by pharmacy personnel to record interventions and other patient care activities.

With the ADT-HL7 data feed you can:

• Eliminate the need to type a patient's name and ID upon each new intervention. 
  Patient names and IDs are selected by system-maintained lists. This promotes consistency and permits easy reference to previous interventions for the same patient.
  
• Automate patient data updates when a patient is transferred within an institution.
  
• Eliminate the need for an administrator to manually maintain lists of locations and physicians.

Training Schedules

Internet/phone-based training seminars for Clinical Measures are available Monday through Friday. All Clinical Measures users are encouraged to attend. If you are unable to attend at the times listed below, please call 800-375-0943 (press option 1), or email support@goldstandard.com to schedule an online training session.

For more information on how to access online training via Microsoft Live Meeting, click on your preferred attendance time below:
Every weekday (all times are Eastern Time):

12:00 noon, daily Clinical Measures Training
3:00 p.m., daily Clinical Measures Training
5:00 p.m., daily Clinical Measures Training