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St. Anthony's Medical Center Selected as SIS Center of Excellence
ATLANTA – St. Anthony’s Medical Center has been designated a Surgical Information Systems (SIS) Center of Excellence, highlighting the St. Louis facility’s ongoing commitment to best practices around the SIS Solution—particularly SIS Analytics, a powerful perioperative-focused business intelligence tool.
A 750-bed comprehensive healthcare complex with 25 operating rooms, St. Anthony’s Medical Center (SAMC) has been using the SIS Solution since June 2006. Effective use of user-defined reports through SIS Analytics allowed the OR staff to immediately implement several successful initiatives to cut costs, improve patient safety and increase the satisfaction of SAMC’s patients, surgeons and clinicians. Within one year of implementation, increased efficiencies enabled OR staff to increase their case load by 5%, decrease late case starts by 4%, and track compliance with key patient safety initiatives.
“At St. Anthony’s Medical Center we are dedicated to patient safety and operational efficiency. We are proud to have been designated a SIS Center of Excellence,” said Ora Wood, Director Surgical Services, SAMC. “A hospital’s choice of OR system is very important because it drives significant revenue and has to be operationally sound. Surgical Information Systems has enabled our perioperative staff to enact best practices in the OR that have improved efficiencies significantly.”
SIS Centers of Excellence are nationally recognized healthcare facilities that have implemented the SIS Solution and shown commitment to the highest standards of clinical, financial and operational success. COEs have further demonstrated use of perioperative best practices to effect turnarounds throughout the entire enterprise.
“St. Anthony’s Medical Center embodies what it means to be a SIS Center of Excellence,” said SIS Chief Executive Officer Ed Daihl. “Their effective use of SIS Analytics, in particular, has set a high standard for what perioperative departments can do with access to actionable data for decision making. St. Anthony’s is truly an organization that has leveraged the business and clinical potential of its surgery department.”
About St. Anthony’s Medical Center
“Our use of SIS Analytics has enabled us to see data in real time and to make changes to our processes in an efficient manner to effect positive change. We are always looking at ways to meet compliance standards, to improve the care we give to our patients, and to meet the needs of our surgeons and organization. “
Tom Collins, RN
I.S. Clinical Coordinator.
About SIS
SIS provides software solutions that are uniquely designed to add value at every point of the perioperative process. Developed specifically for the complex surgical environment, all SIS solutions – including anesthesia – are architected on a single database and integrate easily with other hospital systems. SIS offers the only surgical scheduling system endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA), and a rules-based charging system that has been granted Peer Reviewed status by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).
For more information visit our website, www.SISFirst.com.