Siemens Soarian System

Siemens Soarian System

        Dustin Joines

CIS 207

Siemens Soarian is a program implemented by Johnston Memorial Hospital to accomplish all of the hospitals patient care reporting needs: including the registration process, all-inclusive charting system, integration with the Pharmacy department, and integration with Health Information Management. Siemens Soarian is the next generation of healthcare information system solution from Siemens Incorporated. Siemens has engineered Soarian for efficiency and stability for healthcare professionals. Siemens Soarian offers a new approach to healthcare information technology with Healthcare Process Management enabled by a service-oriented architecture. This architecture uses an infrastructure that can orchestrate your complex processes, large teams, diverse roles, and separate departments.

        Integration with the registration process with Siemens Soarian is the very first and very crucial step in the flow of patient centered care. Without the registration process, the patients record would not be created. Without a record, the patient would not be in the system for the nurses and doctors to provide care. The Access Representative obtains the pertinent information to register the patient and proceeds to input the information into a program called SMS. The SMS program has very similar esthetics to the Microsoft program called DOS. The program has a black screen with lines and input points. After the Access Representative places all the information into SMS, the Soarian record is created and the care for the patient can proceed.

        Siemens Soarian, commonly just called Soarian, is an all-inclusive system that services the many purposes throughout Johnston Memorial Hospital. One of the main reason we have the Siemens systems in our facility is to input data into the patients chart. The Soarian system allows nurse a, doctors, techs and many other hospital staff in many departments to view patient records, input order and chart patients conditions. One of the amazing features of this paperless system is the charting systems ability to update instantly. A nurse can place a note about the patient’s condition in Soarian and the doctor can view this data while he is on another floor visiting another one of his patients. This allows for continuous, uninterrupted flow of information within the system.

        Pharmacy integration with Soarian is vital to patient care within the hospital setting. Medication orders are placed into Soarian with specific information on dosage, time and other things. This order is then translated by another program in the Suite called MAK or Medication Administration Check. This MAK program allows the nursing staff to see the medication orders on a separate screen from all the other patient orders. When medications are due to be given the program alerts the staff nurse that mediation is due in the next thirty minutes or is already late. The nurse also has the ability to see when the last dose of the medication was given. When it is time to give a medication the nurse must sign in via scanning his or her name badge barcode unique to each nurse, then scan the medication that is to be given and then scan the patients name band with barcode. This allows for the checking portion of the name of the system and reduces medication administration errors.