MINNEAPOLIS – West Georgia Health System has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets solutions at West Georgia Medical Center.

Located in LaGrange, Ga., the 276-bed West Georgia Medical Center has been serving the citizens of LaGrange and Troup counties for more than 60 years and is one of only 211 designated rural referral centers in the nation. It is accredited by the Joint Commission and participates in a number of leading quality initiatives including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project and the Georgia Medical Care Foundation’s program.

ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customizable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardized care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. Built upon ProVation Medical’s award-winning, clinician-designed technology platform, ProVation Order Sets offer automatic linking to the superior clinical decision support content of UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 360,000 clinicians.

UpToDate covers more than 7,700 topics in 15 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text and graphics, as well as links to Medline abstracts, more than 260,000 references and a drug database. Content is continuously reviewed and updated by physician editors and authors.

In addition to integrated links to UpToDate and other trusted sources of medical evidence, ProVation Order Sets offer the flexibility to link additional clinical resources based upon client needs and preferences. Further, to help facilities achieve the highest possible degree of automation, ProVation Order Sets feature vendor-neutral mapping and export capabilities that allow for flexible integration into any facility or vendor EMR or CPOE system.

“By continually benchmarking against top-performing hospitals across the country, West Georgia Health Systems is working diligently to improve its quality of care and raise the bar in community health,” said Arvind Subramanian, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “We are pleased WGHS has decided to implement ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to help further their quality improvement efforts.”