Improved Patient Care

New study shows 31% reduced mortality rate
using MetaVision

A new study of critically ill patients at Lehigh Valley Hospital has found significantly reduced mortality rates, after implementing a health IT bundle including MetaVision. The hospital used MetaVision as the ICU’s electronic medical record, and MVcentral for telemonitoring, to achieve intensivist bedside coverage 24/7. LVH published that after implementing MetaVision, among other technologies, mortality fell from 21.4% to 14.7% (a reduction of 31.3%).   

Arch Intern Med, 170(7), April 2010, pp. 648-653     
MORE >
 

MetaVision CPOE significantly reduces prescribing errors and increases safety in the ICU

A study at the Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, showed that after the implementation of MetaVision in their 25-bed ICU, all issues of legibility, completeness and traceability were eliminated, increasing the percentage of correctly prescribed drugs from 53% to 100%. For example, MetaVision reduced dose errors from 11.7% in handwritten prescriptions to 0% post-implementation and increased the traceability of prescribers from 31% on handwritten prescriptions to 100% after deployment.
 

Anesthesia, Vol. 65, January 2010, pp. 119–123
MORE > 

 

MetaVision improves early and adequate delivery of nutrients in the ICU

A study at the VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, shows that MetaVision and its decision support tools allow for significantly improved early delivery of nutrition in the ICU. After installing MetaVision, the percentage of patients with adequate nutrients delivered by day 4 in the ICU increased from 30.2% to 56.5%, in accordance with ICU guidelines. Recent literature shows that nutrition protocol management and guideline adherence is critical to shortening ICU stays and reducing patient mortality.
 

The Netherlands Journal of Medicine, Vol. 67, No. 11, December 2009
MORE >

MetaVision Decision Support tools reduce prescription errors by 83%

Research carried out in the pediatric ICU at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel, shows that prescription errors and potential adverse drug events were significantly reduced through the use of MetaVision's decision support capabilities. Specifically, adverse drug events were reduced by 72%, while medication prescription errors fell from 5.5% to a mere 0.7%. This shows the extent to which MetaVision can prevent weight-based calculation errors, which are of particular significance in pediatrics.

Pediatrics, Vol. 124, No. 3, September 2009, pp. 935-940

MetaVision Event Manager improves reactivation of CPB monitor

The rate of alarm reactivation at baseline (Stage I) was 22%, increased to 63% (Stage II), and again to 83% during Stage III (P < 0.001). The spontaneous alarm reactivation rate before the appearance of the electronic reminder on the anesthesia information management system screen increased from 19% at Stage II to 42% at stage III (P < 0.001).

Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 108 no. 4, April 2009
MORE > 

Nutrition support and energy balance improved by use of MetaVision

Malnutrition in hospitalized patients is associated with increased infectious morbidity, prolonged hospital stay, and increased mortality. Research carried out in ICUs at the University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland, found that the use of MetaVision was associated with an increase in the quality of nutritional support due to enforced prescription standardization and the direct display of results.

Nutrition, Vol.  22, March 2006
MORE >
 

Accurate nutrition information with MetaVision aids critically ill patients

A study at the General ICU at the Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel, revealed that MetaVision provides accurate information on energy balance in critically ill patients. This may allow the early detection and prevention of severe negative energy balance and complications.

Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 25, Issue 1, February 2006
MORE >
  

Increased Operational Efficiency

MetaVision saves time on nursing documentation

MetaVision helped increase time available to nurses for direct patient care at LVHHN by up to 95 minutes per 12-hour shift.

AtlantiCare 8th Annual Trauma Symposium, May 2006
MORE > 

 

Nursing shift time saved by using MetaVision

At Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, MetaVision saved nurses an average of 29 minutes per 8-hour shift in post-cardiothoracic surgery documentation time.

Intensive Care Medicine, Vol. 29, No. 1, January 2003
MORE >
 

Increased Reimbursements

Implementation of MetaVision results in a $300,000 increase in revenue capture

The time clinicians at Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France, spent implementing CCAM billing codes decreased significantly once they installed MetaVision. The number of errors was also reduced - by over 70% - which would represent an addition of approximately $300,000 in revenues captured from the French national medical insurance authorities.
MORE > 

Improved Protocol Compliance

Adherence to drug guidelines doubles with MetaVision

A study recently published in the European Journal of Anaesthesiology shows a dramatic increase in adherence to prophylaxis administration guidelines using MetaVision, at OLVG hospital. Using MetaVision decision support tools, the Hospital was able to increase timely delivery of both dexamethasone and granisetron from 39% to 79%. The study concluded “decision support is effective in improving administration and timing of PONV prophylaxis medication”.

European Journal of Anaesthesiology Volume 27 - Issue 2 - p 187–191 February 2010
MORE >   

This follows a 2008 study published Anesthesia and Analgesia in which OLVG saw the number of high risk patients prescribed PONV prophylaxis rise from 38% to 73% following implementation of MetaVision.

Anesthesia and Analgesia, Vol. 106, No. 3, March 2008
MORE >