Integrated Lab Results Improve Long-term Care Decision-making

Wise Dx, with its partnership with PointClickCare, is facilitating improved clinical decision-making for long-term care providers through real-time reviews of electronic laboratory results.

“We have recently interfaced our lab results with PointClickCare which makes it easy and convenient for senior living and skilled nursing facilities, as well as home health care companies, to access patient test results,” said Scott Brady, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Wise Diagnostic Systems.

PointClickCare is a world-class platform that is part of the largest healthcare ecosystem in the United States, helping providers across the continuum to improve patient care and outcomes via collaboration.

Wise Dx joins over 25,000 long-term post-acute care providers, and over 1,600 hospitals that use PointClickCare today.

PointClickCare Integrated Lab Results: Real-Time Results

PointClickCare integrated lab results enables clinicians, practitioners, and care providers to receive lab results in real-time.

Test results are automatically updated to a resident or patient electronic health records (EHR).

“This ensures more accurate and complete documentation for the care team when making clinical decisions, which then leads to improved resident and patient outcomes,” said Brady.

PointClickCare Integrated lab results can reduce:

• Chart and provider matching errors
• Compliance issues
• Delays in receiving lab results
• Error-prone, paper-based processes
• Time-consuming calls with physicians

The PointClickCare integration can help catch abnormalities as clinical staff can adjust care plans in response to automatically flagged results which trend outside of normal ranges.

How PointClickCare Integrated Lab Results Works

PointClickCare has access to lab results from national, regional, and local diagnostic testing providers such as Wise Dx which can be received and stored as part of a resident’s healthcare record.

Once enabled within the PointClickCare platform, providers can receive laboratory results electronically, both as structured data and PDF/images.

The test results, once successfully received, are automatically placed in the patient’s record, and are available for immediate review.

“Interfacing with PointClickCare enables meaningful collaboration and access to real-time insights for long-term care providers and home health care companies,” said Brady. “Ultimately it enables better care for vulnerable patients.”

Most homes do not have interfaces with hospital or commercial labs, so utilizing PointClickCare to access test results from Wise Dx could be a real game changer.

Providers benefit from PointClickCare in several ways, including:

• Improved care delivery: Diagnostic information is shared sooner with the entire care team which improves decision-making, resulting in more timely treatment for residents
• Mitigated risk: Reduces the potential for errors by having clear, legible electronic results where care providers can easily identify potential problems, risks, or trends.
• Increased time savings: Drastically reduces the time spent searching for and managing paper results, and instead, gain quick access to review the results in the resident’s dashboard and alter care plans as required
• Ensures that documentation is consistent, complete, and compliant

Skilled Nursing and Senior Living Facilities Benefit

Reliable and quick test results are very important in skilled nursing and senior living facilities.

PointClickCare makes it easy for these long-term care providers with electronic access to test results.

“Test orders are validated and complete at the point of care,” says PointClickCare. “Integrated real-time results are automatically attached to the order and available to the care team.”

Not only does integrated lab and imaging in long-term care resident’s charts improve their overall care, but operational efficiency is increased, quality is improved, and risk is reduced.

PointClickCare says that:

• Care teams operate more efficiently when manual tasks and required business rules are automated at the point of care. This ensures less follow up and manual intervention
• Seamless connectivity to lab and imaging service providers along with validated, intelligent ordering for each provider, also ensures that required information is captured upfront and provided with the order when entered in the HER
• All test and diagnostic results are automatically attached to the right order and resident chart, minimizing lost results or errors that occur with manual upload of information

Contact Wise Dx today to find out more about our molecular testing platforms that offer practical diagnostics to help clinicians achieve better patient outcomes.