Overview

Product Features

• Mobile entry of all clinical orders including medications, labs, radiology, diet, and others
• Speech recognition offers physicians the ability to combine traditional and voice input in a single order
• Optimized for mobile phones; fully supports web browsers on desktop, laptop, and tablet PCs
• Real-time access to patient information, orders, and results; fully integrated with existing hospital systems
• inTouch Medication Reconciliation optimizes process at admission and discharge
• inTouch Order Entry speeds re-use of common orders and order sets; checks for drug interactions

Order Entry
The core feature of Validus inTouch is order entry.  Designed for how physicians think and work, Validus inTouch makes it possible to write clear consistent orders from anywhere. These orders arrive at the Validus inTouch Print Station at the point of care, integrating seamlessly into the unit’s existing workflow. Validus inTouch has been  designed to speed entry of orders, overcoming a common complaint about other systems. At the same time,  Validus inTouch assists the physician in ensuring that all orders are complete and accurate.

Complete Clinical Coverage
Smart Order Entry™ Speeds Orders     
Validus inTouch is built to support the physician’s workflow, and Smart Order Entry features speed the process.  Physicians can save frequently entered orders, and retrieve them  instantly. The system automatically tracks the phrases a physician uses in context. These phrases are readily available for reuse significantly speeding order entry. This adaptive interface requires no training and quickly learns the physician’s patterns. Smart Order Entry uses the hospital’s own order sets to provide a familiar starting point for physicians. Orders and order sets can also be customized to the individual physician and shared among groups of clinicians. Orders are entered using the vocabulary and shorthand terms familiar to physicians. However, when the orders are displayed and transmitted, Smart Order Entry integrates best practices to reduce confusion, such as TALLman spelling (for example,  AcetaZOLAMIDE® versus AcetoHEXAMIDE®) and replacement of abbreviations with JCAHOcompliant terminology.
 
Reducing Errors Through Structured Orders
All Validus inTouch orders are “structured,” which means that an incomplete order is highlighted and the physician is prompted for the missing parts. For example, when ordering a medication, the drug name, dosage, route, and frequency are all required. Orders can include additional notes and instructions where appropriate.



First DataBank® Assists Physicians
By integrating the First DataBank drug database, Validus inTouch assists the physician in identifying appropriate dosages and drug interactions. Validus inTouch can also be customized with the hospital’s own drug formulary, reducing the likelihood of outof-formulary orders.

Speech Recognition
Validus inTouch makes use of next-generation speech recognition technology to accelerate system navigation and physician input of medication orders. Physicians can mix-and-match speech and touch screen input in a single order. Validus uses a client-server architecture optimized for inexpensive and lightweight handheld devices.
Compute-intensive tasks such as speech recognition are off-loaded from the mobile device, ensuring that the physician saves time and effort when they choose to use voice input for their orders.

Accreditation
Validus inTouch can help hospitals achieve accreditation and stay compliant by providing electronic support for the processes and procedures implemented to achieve compliance with standards set by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).  Joint Commission Accreditation Validus inTouch’s structured process for order entry helps hospitals comply with Joint Commission requirements in the area of Provision of Care (PC), Medication Management (MM), and Management of Information (IM). For example, Smart Order Entry
allows hospitals to predefine order sets, which helps to improve compliance by providing consistent levels of care. Validus inTouch also includes Smart Medication Reconciliation™, specifically designed in accordance with Goal 8 of the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals, to help hospitals maintain accreditation.  

HIPAA Compliance 
The engineers behind Validus inTouch include security professionals with extensive experience in network security. Validus inTouch is specifically designed to comply with HIPAA requirements regarding safekeeping of patient healthcare information. The Validus inTouch client-server architecture ensures that no protected patient health information is stored on the PDA, smart–phone, or personal computer used to connect to the Validus inTouch Server. This means that if a PDA or smartphone is lost or stolen, there is no risk of information breach.


Mobility
Validus inTouch empowers the physician to enter orders and check on patient information and lab results—securely—whenever and wherever they are working. A client for mobile devices, Validus inTouch MD, is built around PDAs and smart–phones connected using Wi-Fi or cellular data networks. When a physician is in their office or at home,  they can also use their own personal computer with the Validus inTouch MD client resized to larger screens for full access without having to learn or load any additional software.



Broad Device Support
Validus inTouch MD is compatible with a broad spectrum of mobile platforms including Windows Mobile phones and Apple iPhones.  The mobile interface is designed to be completely effective on small screens.  The client-server architecture of Validus inTouch also supports web browsers, bringing full and complete functionality to the physician using a traditional desktop PC, laptop, or tablet computer—whether at a nursing station, in the physician’s office, or even remotely at home or while traveling.  Because Validus inTouch uses a client-server computing model, a physician is free to move from one device to another at any time. If a device fails or the physician is urgently called away, any other web browser or mobile device can be used to return to their work in progress.

Broad Network Support
Mobility means “anytime, anywhere” secure access.  Validus inTouch MD was designed to work over both Wi-Fi and cellular data networks. By leveraging a client-server architecture that minimizes the amount of information sent over the network, Validus inTouch MD provides a good user experience even over a low-speed connection such
as a cellular data network.

Integration 
The Validus development team started with a philosophy of empowering the most critical members of the clinical team—first. Unlike many healthcare IT products, Validus inTouch serves the needs of the physician, the patient, and the nursing staff, before the needs of the data center.  This strategy of focusing on the end user means that Validus inTouch complements and enhances existing processes, protocols, and systems. For that reason, Validus inTouch is designed to work with both paper-based and electronic systems already in place.

Live Connections
Because the physician is connected via the network to the Validus inTouch Server for all operations, Validus inTouch always presents up-to-date information. Validus inTouch uses “live” connections to existing hospital clinical systems, not synchronized data. With Validus inTouch, you don’t synchronize in the morning and get further and further out of date as the day goes on—every time you view a screen of data, the information is updated over the network. This ensures that physicians have real-time access to up-to-the minute patient information.