Press Ganey has developed a collaboration with Epic to combine nurse-sensitive indicators (NSI) and outcomes from Epic’s EHR into Press Ganey’s Nationwide Database of Nursing High quality Indicators (NDNQI).  The corporate stated the automated reporting will save nursing and high quality leaders time and speed up the work to enhance affected person care. 

Th NDNQI collects and analyzes nursing information from greater than 2,000 collaborating organizations, enabling nurse leaders to evaluate and benchmark their efficiency towards greater than 53,000 models and medical settings. The nationwide database includes 600 measures of medical high quality and affected person outcomes, together with greater than 250 nursing-sensitive indicators, akin to falls, strain accidents and hospital-acquired infections. 

The Epic integration will start with streaming 5 key care indicators – CAUTI, CLABSI, Falls (Inpatient and Outpatient), and Strain Accidents. This collaboration is a stepping stone towards connecting Epic’s course of measure indicators to NDNQI’s high quality outcomes and benchmarks to offer actionable insights to enhance affected person care. 

“Our expanded collaboration with Epic to combine reporting of nursing delicate indicators is a pivotal step in the direction of utilizing real-time information to enhance the expertise and high quality of care,” stated Darren Dworkin, president and chief working officer for Press Ganey, in an announcement. “By eradicating handbook reporting of high quality and security information, we will scale back work for nursing leaders and velocity up the time to perception and motion.” 

This work builds on Press Ganey’s collaboration with Epic by way of its Workshop initiative to combine a affected person’s expertise information with their well being report. By way of the “PX Join Suite,”joint Press Ganey and Epic purchasers can floor affected person expertise insights to front-line workers for affected person care and repair restoration. 

To advance this new work, Epic and Press Ganey hosted a collection of focus teams and stated they may proceed consumer discussions to information the event course of. 

“The brand new integration applied sciences developed in Workshop will permit nurse leaders to dedicate extra time to performing on information, with an goal to in the end improve the standard of care,” stated Emily Barey, M.S.N., vice chairman for nursing at Epic. “This collaboration intends not solely to cut back the quantity of required abstracting and formatting but additionally be certain that documentation helps the important work of nurses in retaining sufferers secure.”