Orion Health - cWorkflow - Clinical Audit & Research

The cWorkflow Engine can be used to automatically coordinate the data collection and documentation tasks that are required in an effective Clinical Audit and Quality Improvement workflow.

Data collection for all patients
Specific events can be set to trigger the creation of electronic audit forms. For example, when the patient is admitted or transferred into a particular speciality, an admission/transfer form is generated, and if the patient underwent a surgical procedure, cWorkflow Engine can automatically create an operation form. When the patient is discharged, a discharge summary is created.

Automatic reminders for physicians
When a physician logs into Concerto Physician Portal, their home page contains a list of reminders of all outstanding audit tasks that have not been completed. Reminders help ensure that the clinicians responsible for a patient complete the audit tasks that are required.

Routine audit reports
Information from completed audit forms can extracted from cWorkflow Engine on a regular (eg. daily) basis and transferred into a standard reporting database, from where reports can be run and subsequently reviewed in peer group sessions.

Prepopulation of data
If information required for audit already exists in an external information system, this data can be prepopulated into the audit form by cWorkflow Engine.

Unifying specialty data, organization-wide
Orion Health software can provide a solution to replace an organization's system of informal methods for specialty data collection. The solution allows clinicians to design and manage an electronic data collection process that is best suited to their specialty, while allowing clinicians across an organization to share and search on this specialty data for research purposes and to assist with patient care.

Using Orion Health software, data residing in specialty databases can be automatically extracted and inserted into electronic patient documents. In turn, specialty databases can be updated based on new information entered by physicians as they create new documents.

The solution includes the use of data dictionaries to assist in standardizing data items across an organization. Security can be applied to restrict access to certain items of specialty data as required.