Surgical Information Systems (SIS) Offers AORN SYNTEGRITY Standardized Perioperative Framework (SPF)

March 8, 2010

Surgical Information Systems (SIS), the perioperative IT specialist, will offer the AORN SYNTEGRITY Standardized Perioperative Framework (SPF) within its nationally recognized suite of perioperative management solutions.

Developed by CSC and AORN, SYNTEGRITY, in conjunction with SIS solutions, provides the content and functionality necessary to maintain regulatory and AORN best practice compliance. Through the use of a standardized framework with PNDS (Perioperative Nursing Data Set), hospitals will be able to participate in nationalized benchmarking offered through AORN.

AORN SYNTEGRITY guidelines ensure that documentation is aligned with AORN recommendations. Incorporating these guidelines into the SIS clinical solution reduces or eliminates the need for hospitals to create custom processes. “SIS extends the opportunity to use the gold standard of benchmarking by offering the AORN SYNTEGRITY framework as part of its market leading solution,” said Deward Watts, president of CSC’s Healthcare Group. “Combining AORN SYNTEGRITY framework with SIS solutions arms hospitals with an added means to create efficiencies and find enhancements in the perioperative setting.”

SYNTEGRITY helps solution providers like SIS streamline the capture of critical patient data for perioperative care in hospitals, outpatient facilities and ambulatory surgery centers. The framework enables health practitioners to quickly identify and document patient care elements across the continuum of perioperative care, including preadmission, preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases. AORN SYNTEGRITY™ also includes data fields necessary for reporting relevant operational, quality and regulatory information.

“SIS and the AORN SYNTEGRITY framework enable a higher level of quality care that can go beyond meeting federal requirements and provide a path to improved outcomes and accurate reporting, no matter what future regulations may mandate. We are delighted to see that SIS, already recognized by AHA and HFMA, has decided to offer AORN SYNTEGRITY to its clients and prospects as part if its solution,” said AORN executive director Linda Groah, RN, MSN, CNOR, FAAN.

AORN SYNTEGRITY incorporates AORN’s standardized nursing vocabulary, the Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS), and aligns with clinical standards, accreditation specifications and regulatory requirements to promote ongoing compliance and consistent patient care. Data derived from AORN SYNTEGRITY documentation can be used to support benchmarking activities and will enable perioperative care practitioners to measure outcomes and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of care.

“As the only specialty healthcare IT provider with integrated surgery and anesthesia offerings, SIS is committed to excellence in the perioperative space,” said Ed Daihl, SIS CEO. “Incorporating the AORN SYNTEGRITY Standardized Perioperative Framework into the SIS Solution enables the opportunity to leverage AORN’s data benchmarking. This kind of comparative data review can help every perioperative department to continue to improve the focus on patient quality.”