Telemetry Appropriateness Toolkit

According to the Society of Hospital Medicine, inappropriate use of telemetric (ECG) monitoring is likely to increase the cost of care and produce false positives. MEDITECH’s Telemetry Appropriateness Toolkit, designed with Expanse technology, supports your organization in the indication-based ordering and removal of ECG monitoring.  

Aligned with industry recommendations, the toolkit consists of advanced clinical decision support and surveillance, as well as documentation and chart review tools. Components also include:

• On-demand video education

• Outcomes-centered workflow guide

• Setup guidance

• Decision log

• Change log

• Reference/supporting information

• FAQs

Disclaimer

Toolkits are intended to support healthcare professionals by providing timely information about prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a disease or condition by displaying patient information in the context of evidence-based clinical guidelines. They are intended for the purpose of enabling the healthcare professionals to independently review the basis for such recommendations. It is not intended to replace the clinical judgment of a healthcare professional to make a clinical diagnosis or treatment decision regarding an individual patient.