MEDITECH
Oncology
Management
product
brief
MEDITECH's Oncology Management product is a comprehensive system designed to help organizations manage the unique care requirements of oncology patients, who often require lengthy treatments and frequent treatments at ambulatory facilities.
The product serves a wide range of clinicians and staff members including oncologists, practice assistants, practice nurses, treatment room nurses, pharmacists, clinical research nurses, intake coordinators, social workers, and secretaries. It includes features for scheduling patients, managing treatment plans and orders, TNM and Staging, documentation, and chemotherapy ordering, as well as a radiation therapy interfaces and extensive integration with the MEDITECH HCIS.
Organizations that
use MEDITECH's Oncology Management system benefit from a
streamlined workflow, improved patient safety, and a consistent
and managed approach to oncology treatments.
Highlights:
•
Utilization of a team-based Status Board and Desktop
• Management of treatment plans and protocols
• Electronic TNM and Staging Forms
• Order management, with powerful decision support
• On-line documentation
• Clinical flowsheets
• Interfaces to radiation therapy systems
• Tight integration with MEDITECH's HCIS
• Streamlined scheduling of patient appointments.
Standard Features
Appointment
Scheduling
The Oncology Management
product includes a scheduling component to coordinate appointment
scheduling. These scheduling features help users to:
• Automate and streamline patient appointment scheduling
• Minimize scheduling errors and missed appointments
• Perform conflict checking by resource, personnel, and
appointment type
• Generate automatic appointment reminders and cancellation
notices
• Utilize waitlists to minimize/eliminate unproductive time
due to cancellations
• Improving scheduling efficiency and resource allocation.
Order
Management
Oncologists are able to
manage orders for patients treated their outpatient chemotherapy
clinics. Powerful decision support features help clinicians to
ensure a safe ordering process. Capabilities include:
• Multidisciplinary ancillary orders
• Chemotherapy ordering (including lifetime dose checking)
• Ambulatory orders and prescriptions.
Clinical
Flowsheets
Oncologists can utilize a
patient-centric flowsheet to format treatment cycle dates and
other vital information, including:
• Vital signs
• Laboratory work (both internal and external results)
• Chemotherapy and radiation treatments and modifications
• Premedications
• Transfusions
• Hydration
• Ancillary medications
• Progress notes/reports.
TNM
and Staging
MEDITECH's Oncology Management product provides clinicians with
an on-line version of the American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC)
TNM and Staging Forms used to document tumors, the extent of
spread to lymph nodes, and any metastasis. Knowing the state of
the disease helps the clinician plan a treatment and determine a
prognosis. Staging provides a common language that clinicians can
use to communicate a patient's case. Knowing the stage is
important to identifying clinical trials that may be suitable for
a particular patient.
Interfaces
for Communication with Radiation Therapy Systems
A suite of interfaces is
included in the product for communicating with other vendors'
radiation therapy systems. These interfaces enable users to:
• Communicate scheduling requests from MEDITECH's Oncology
Management product to the radiation therapy system
• Communicate radiation prescription information and TNM and
Staging information from MEDITECH's Oncology Management product
to the radiation therapy system
• Receive treatment summaries from another vendor's
radiation therapy system into MEDITECH's Oncology Management
product.
Integration
with a Wide Range of MEDITECH Products
MEDITECH's Oncology
Management product is integrated with a wide range of MEDITECH
HCIS applications to ensure coordinated care delivery. These
applications include:
• Health Information and Quality Management
• Revenue Cycle
• Patient Care and Patient Safety
• Laboratory and Microbiology
• Anatomical Pathology
• Blood Bank
• Pharmacy
• Imaging and Therapeutic Services
• Enterprise Medical Record
• Physician Care Manager.
Recommended
Complementary Products
MEDITECH has enhanced its
Patient Discharge Instructions and Patient Education and Internet
for Patients products to support the treatment of oncology
patients. We recommend that customers who license the Oncology
Management system acquire these products to help patients
understand more completely their conditions and the treatments
they are receiving.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative.
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com