Reduce administrative burden through automated wavestrip workflows
- By Philips
- March 10 2025
- 2 min read
In the search for solutions around staff efficiency and burnout, improving clinical documentation workflows can be an overlooked area. Clinical resources often find themselves having to choose between completion of mandatory administrative tasks at the expense of hands-on patient care. Creating solutions that give back this time is at the core of mission at Philips.
At-a-glance:
- Wavestrip export removes the task of printing paper strips and scanning to document patient waveforms
- Link vitals to the wavestrip to provide added contextual information
- Supports EMR workflow, allows clinicians to click on a URL within the EMR to launch a wavestrip workflow
- Supports saving waveforms directly from a mobile device and web app
- Export and annotate from the central station or web directly to the EMR
- Allows electronic caliper measurements to be saved with rhythm label and comments
- Can show alarms and up to 20 waveforms
Philips wavestrip workflow solutions are designed to help reduce time spent on administrative tasks giving the clinician time back for patient care.
Removing bottlenecks where it matters most
Bottlenecks at the central station are commonplace where, once printed, exporting of patient waveforms into hospital’s EMR happen regularly, at end of day or at shift change causing further frustration and introducing the possibility of issues related to policy adherence and charting accuracy.
Integrating mobility into the wavestrip workflow
As mobile browsers and devices continue to positively impact hospital workflows everywhere, documentation solutions have been slow to integrate these devices. Clinicians want data and documentation workflows to happen wherever they may be and not have to make unnecessary trips to the nurse’s station.
Eliminating manual, paper-based frustrations
Philips continues to innovate in these areas specifically around solving for frustrating manual, paper-based workflows that continue to weigh on stretched clinical staff. The wavestrip export feature has long helped clinicians automate the labor intensive tasks of printing, cutting, pasting and scanning wavestrips and in PIC iX 4.0 we continue to evolve to meet customer needs.
Clinicians can potentially spend less time charting and more time delivering care with digital tools that deliver the right strip directly in the patient’s chart. And we continue to hear from customers who have adopted and standardized with Philips the impact this solution has for them.
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Footnotes
- Results from baseline and post time and motion studies conducted by Philips and Jackson Health internal teams in the high acuity units (SICU A, SICU B, CCU). Results are exclusive to Jackson Memorial Hospital
- Baseline and post time and motion studies in the Central Monitoring Unit (Tele Tech time spent on print, cut, paste and interpreting wavestrips). Results are exclusive to Jackson Memorial Hospital
Disclaimer
Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions. Results in other cases may vary.