OpenVista Mental Health EHR Solution
OpenVista's Mental Health Successes
Click on Silver Hill Hospital to see how one nationally recognized psychiatric hospital is using OpenVista Mental Health, in tandem with OpenVista's other fully integrated applications, to improve the quality of its already very high-end patient care—for instance, by creating a "triple-check safety process."
Click on West Virginia DHHR Network to learn how a resource-strapped eight-hospital state system—with a mix of acute, behavioral health/psychiatric and long-term beds—is reaping the benefits of OpenVista's unified electronic health record solution.
Only 1.5 percent of U.S. hospitals have an EHR system functioning across all clinical units, says Psychiatric News reporter Mark Moran, and the percentage of psychiatric and behavioral health facilities is likely much less. Click on Moran: Silver Hill Article to access his June 5, 2009, article detailing how OpenVista is helping these facilities leverage the VA (VistA) system as a cost-effective option and learn why Silver Hill President Sigurd Ackerman, MD, says that, thanks to OpenVista, "There will be a huge time savings and a reduction in medical errors.”
The OpenVista Electronic Health Record Provides Integrated Support for Mental Healthcare
(Click on OpenVista/Mental Health to access a PDF version of this Medsphere white paper.)
Designed by clinicians from all healthcare disciplines, OpenVista is guided by the principle of making it easier for healthcare professionals to provide better patient care.
As an integrated solution, OpenVista includes applications critical to ensuring patient safety and promoting effective communication among mental health clinicians. OpenVista directly benefits behavioral health clients through an array of core competencies:
- A computerized provider order entry (CPOE) module and associated alerts
- A closed loop medication management process for both inpatient and outpatient episodes of care
- Clinical alerts and reminders
- Robust charting templates and tools that facilitate best practices and complete documentation
- Order management and results reporting functionalities that provide faster turnaround times and increase access, at the point of care, to vital exam and test results, e.g., toxicology lab results and abnormal or critical values
OpenVista also enhances third-party reimbursement by providing ready access to clinical information (individual encounter notes, progress and discharge notes, outcome measurements, case management information, etc.), comprehensive assessments, treatment plans, suicide incident reports and documentation of administrative activities.
As the core electronic medical record, OpenVista CareVue serves as the foundation for automation of mental health care through a series of System Design Blocks (SDS) that come into play during system implementation. Medsphere's SDSs provide how-to perspective on OpenVista and its broad functional support for different care settings, and also ensure user acceptance and system effectiveness.
As is demonstrated by the graphics below, Medsphere uses SDSs to guide hospitals in setting up customized documentation focused on mental health. OpenVista is currently in use at specific mental health facilities in the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources network and at Silver Hill Hospital, a nationally recognized private psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, Conn.
OpenVista CareVue Features Supporting Mental Health
Improves the accuracy of client identification
- Provides a Patient Summary page with demographic and registration information, comprehensive clinical encounter information and a current client photo
- Enables clinicians to confirm client identification via bar coding technology through the use of the Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) Module
Improves the effectiveness of communication among caregivers
- Displays in the Patient Summary view a brief index of the client's clinical database, including psychological test and interview results, reviews of systems, past medical histories, crisis notes, clinical client messages, progress notes, medications and associated statuses (pending, active, discontinued)
- Enables rapid communication among system end users through the OpenVista MailMan electronic messaging system
- Requires clinicians to 'sign' and verify orders entered electronically via the OpenVista CareVue Orders tab
- Makes test results and values available to clinicians immediately following the completion and evaluation of tests
- Enables clinicians to give clients psychological tests and clinical interviews at workstations, saving considerable clinician time
- Allows clinicians to flag patient record to indicate that the patient may harm himself, other patients or hospital staff, i.e., fall risk, elopement risk, history of abuse or violence. Flag appears each time clinicians access the chart
- Provides clinicians with client reports from a variety of perspectives (clinical, health summary, health data, interdisciplinary, etc.)
- Gives clinicians the ability to create various documentation templates (nursing assessment, suicide risk, restraints, treatment plans) specific to the focus and workflow of a particular facility
- Supports collaborative treatment planning through use of co-signatures and additional signers; allows clinicians to link updates to original treatment plan through parent/child templates
- Enables clinicians to request consults electronically and include additional information and questions as part of standardized request
- Enables inclusion in the record of standardized Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) diagnoses
Specifically designed to meet the needs of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, therapists, counselors and other mental health professionals, Medsphere's mental health electronic health record solution benefits greatly from their expert, collaborative input. Focusing on facilitating direct provider entry of clinical data with reporting and exporting functionality, the system's user-friendly, Windows-like presentation enables clinicians and other end-users to enter data via a "mouse" or keyboard click.
OpenVista® meets the unique documentation and reporting needs of the many disciplines in the mental and behavioral health field, enabling users to record and report on both clinical and program activities. The software system:
- is natively integrated with other OpenVista clinical applications;
- supports third-party billing; and
- assists hospitals in meeting accreditation standards and reporting requirements.
Developed with input from mental health providers through a user-centric approach critical to developing a system that facilitates direct provider entry of clinical information, OpenVista Mental Health is currently helping facilities of various shapes, sizes and budgets, improve quality of care, practice and program management, data collection and data reporting.