The innovative healthcare administrative system provider
PatientOrderSets.com announced last week that it had received a $750,000 investment from HTX to merge its data platform with computerized health records platforms. A spokesperson for the company says he expects this will lead to the immediate-term hiring of eight new staff at the company.
The announcement comes on the heels of
news earlier this month that Patient Order Sets had landed a contract to provide services to five more Toronto area hospitals, bringing the number of hospital clients they serve to approximately 150 across Canada.
The company was founded in 2006 by Dr. Chris O'Conner, a critical ICU physician at Trillium Health Centre, who recognized that there was a need for order sets in the hospital. Order sets are, a spokesperson explains, standardized checklists or patient protocols to go down, with default responses available. The computerized system ensures best practices are followed, and eliminates much of the need for illegible scrawled orders.
Today the system makes the order sets of all member institutions available to all members so that best practices from across the field can be adopted.
"PatientOrderSets creates a mechanism for multi-disciplinary, evidence-based policy and integrates all stakeholders during order set development, which encourages clinician buy-in and support," O'Connor says.
Writer: Edward Keenan
Source: Sachin Aggarwal, PatientOrderSets.com