Sign-Out

Effectively manage the hand-off process

PatientKeeper Sign-Out enables physicians to manage the hand-off process. Physicians can communicate key information, tasks, and care instructions. Sign-Out provides a continuity of care tool that facilitates faster discharges, enhances patient safety, and aids compliance with Joint Commission national patient safety goals.

Simplify process and streamline workflow

It is common for the hand-off process to be ad-hoc, with tasks written on rounding sheets or verbally passed on during shift changes.

This inefficiency can cause:

• Discharge delays
• Duplicate tests
• Compromised patient safety

With PatientKeeper Sign-Out, physicians start their shifts with a complete patient summary including condition updates, code status, problems, pertinent tests, treatments and to-do items – sorted by priority. And they can transfer tasks and notes at shift end to covering physicians.

Flexible, time-saving features:

• Create and manage tasks for all your patients just a few clicks
• Develop pre-defined task groups for admission, discharge, cardiac and more
• Select from pre-defined tasks such as “remove sutures” and “check pre-op labs”
• Designate when tasks are due and check off completed tasks
• Sort tasks for a prioritized worklist
• Customize tasks list by user or department
• Auto-populate patient information to save entry time
• Delete Sign-Out records upon patient discharge so non-medical record commentary is not retained

Enhance patient safety

Poor communication among providers can lead to adverse events such as duplicate information, medical errors or near misses. Handwritten lists, e-mails, makeshift spreadsheets and the like are all too common during the hand-off process. PatientKeeper Sign-Out provides a structured way to help physicians ensure that nothing falls through the cracks during the transition of care at a shift change – in turn helping hospitals comply with the Joint Commission recommendations.

Platform you can build on

PatientKeeper Sign-Out further extends the Physician Portal as a single console for all patient-related and administrative tasks. It is the perfect complement to PatientKeeper applications such as clinical results, electronic prescribing, charge capture, and electronic signing to provide a complete workflow tool for clinicians.