Why traditional cost cutting won’t work 

Top-down cost and practice reviews will not meet today’s challenges as the small, incremental benefits to be gained from re-organisations, ‘right-sizing’ and cost cutting are reaching their limit. 

So what’s the answer? 
Workflow based information solutions can deliver changes which offer up to 20% improvements over what you have today by reducing turnaround times, improving communications between team members and highlighting key clinical events for action.

And how does this work? 
Whole process review is required which gets to the heart of your organisation’s ability to support a patient’s journey against the plan of care. Whatever approach is used, you will eliminate obvious wastage - the real challenge is to optimise workflow. Beyond improving individual events, you need to orchestrate your team to deliver all the tasks in a patient journey – this is where a workflow oriented solution makes a significant difference. 

To achieve this orchestration Siemens has created Soarian®, a clinical solution which proactively manages individual tasks across the care team. Across time, multiple streams of work are performed in parallel by the team, with data input being able to interact between these streams of work, enhancing clinical decision making and escalating delays or failures to the appropriate team member. The benefit is real-time, individual patient care management according to your best practice, every time.

Key pressures on healthcare today
 
Pressures challenge every aspect of your organisation: 
• Price-per-case requires control of costs for each and every patient. Average cost is fine when margins are large, but as the limits diminish, clinical decisions need to be guided at the point of care before costs are incurred 
• Commissioners and patients demand best practice care with minimal clinical risk every time. 
• Time from referral to treatment is the new quality metric - each part of your organisation needs to understand its role in achieving this target 
• Skilled resources are in short supply so getting the best fit of people to tasks is crucial to maintaining quality of service. 
• As the care team spreads across organisational boundaries coordination and communication is critical for successful outcomes. 
• The breadth of healthcare providers continues to grow requiring you to enhance your differentiation. As expectations rise and cost constraints force a review of operational practice Siemens has developed a workflow product that can harness all your resources in delivering against these demands.

Soarian – Workflow driven EPR

Soarian supports each clinical decision through the management of care plans, orders, results, clinical documentation and e-prescribing which maintains your organisation’s electronic patient record, enhanced through receiving additional information from your PACS solution and other existing clinical data sources. 

Clinician work lists are maintained and alerts generated, all presented through individual portal views which filter data and tasks into prioritised lists of workload at the point of care. The embedded workflow engine ensures that care is proactively managed across the care pathway.

Used in over 70 clients across UK, Europe and globally, Soarian’s web-based design allows multiple implementation options to support your care providers in all your locations. 

Integrating systems across the care pathway requires flexibility now and in the future. Soarian’s Service Oriented Architecture allows services to be called easily within its modules and from other systems which require data or process updates. 

You don’t even have to replace your existing PAS or departmental systems before you start to benefit from a workflow approach. Rapid involvement of Soarian into your existing systems immediately provides Soarian’s optimisation features as part of your improvement initiatives – a clinical solution which truly adds value to your existing assets, which maintains its flexibility throughout your change programme.

Find out more about Soarian on www.siemens.co.uk/soarian