• An HL7 protocol offers a time-savings direct electronic link to most lab systems, allowing test results to be sent to the bedside monitor the instant they are available – an on-screen icon notifies clinicians of lab results availability.
• Efficient electronic storage and recall assures immediate data access wherever and whenever it's needed.
• Multiple lab results can be viewed simultaneously for comparison.

Unit Manager

• Expands vital signs capabilities for the bedside monitor.
• Quickly review lab results and trend critical values to speed your clinical assessment and decision-making.
• APACHE scoring offers a quantifiable method for comparing patient acuity and costs between institutions.
• TISS scoring gives you the ability to monitor the patient while tracking productivity.

Critical Care

• All caregivers can access and track patient information, including medications, monitor readouts and charting, patient progress, and other nursing and procedure documentation.
• Facilitates acquisition, validation and reliability of critical patient outcome data and reporting.
• QS’ flexibility lets you adapt easily to meet constantly changing healthcare documentation needs and regulations, while adhering to your facility's formulary, clinical pathways and practice guidelines. QS is a time-saving tool – by setting up a logical, sequential charting process – with plenty of room for free descriptive comments – QS refines and automates many laborious, repetitive manual processes.
• Data becomes a permanent record – the information gathered by QS in the ICU and CCU becomes part of the patient’s permanent electronic record.
• Web enabled features allow easy access to an intranet, the internet or other web-enabled clinical systems from within a QS Critical Care session.
• The QS MAR option is physician-designed for exceptional ease of use and clinical utility; this user-configurable medication administration record allows highly efficient electronic documentation of medications, fluids and infusions – It also performs drug calculations, fluid intakes and outputs, and automates duration of administration… helping significantly reduce administration and recording errors.

Additional System Features

Chalkboards

• Customize chalkboards for each care area to provide cross-patient or cross-unit status displays.
• Indicates patient status by color coding items. Facilitates admission, transfer and discharge functions.

Reporting

• Export data to a predefined system or database.
• Enterprise-wide networking allows data to be exchanged between multiple care areas and departments.