This unique, interactive database includes more than 40 "real-world" clinical cases, developed from authentic records of consenting patients and obtained from actual healthcare settings.

• Admission-to-discharge cases for active, problem-solving learning experiences
• Patient health histories, including prior care, existing conditions, medications and more, for evidence-based decision-making
• CCHIT-certified Cerner Millennium® PowerChart® provides live, dynamic electronic health records that enrich the learning environment

Point-of-care Reference Library

A rich online reference library offers comprehensive point-of-care resources to help students make informed clinical decisions, while saving money on textbooks.

• In-depth glossary of medical terminology
• Drug and lab diagnostic guides
• Cultural competence guides
• Up-to-date, evidence-based practice standards
• Quality standards
• Clinical decision guidelines

Ability To Build And Customize Cases

Easy-to-use templates allow you to build and customize clinical cases that support your teaching and learning objectives for the classroom, simulation and skills laboratory, and clinical scenarios.

Educationally Enhanced Assessment Forms

Specially designed assessment forms give you and your students the ability to view or input data in standard or educationally enhanced versions to guide and reinforce academic objectives.

Positions Your Students For Clinical Success

• Provides hands-on experience with informatics tools applied to their professional disciplines
• Amplifies visual learning opportunities
• Builds knowledge and appreciation of working within interdisciplinary teams
• Employs evidence-based practice applications
• Encourages students to apply and synthesize knowledge
• Allows faculty to track student progress
• Enhances learning retention by making abstract ideas concrete
• Offers high fidelity, simulated clinical settings with actual patient records and clinical charting systems

Developed "by faculty, for faculty," the Academic EHR system is integrated easily into health professions curricula to prepare healthcare students for clinical success.

• "Live" electronic health record that can be applied by faculty to engage students' learning objectives at all levels with dozens of pristine cases and all components enhanced for an educational environment
• Integrates healthcare theories associated with each healthcare discipline into a practice context for students and fosters the development of true clinical thinking through the use of "real-world" cases
• Powered by the CCHIT-certified Cerner Millennium PowerChart electronic medical record, used in healthcare facilities across the country and ranked in the Top 3 acute-care EHR systems in the nation by Modern Healthcare
• Provides Web-based, remote-hosted application, available any time to faculty and students using any computer with secured Internet access

The Academic EHR system is curriculum relevant and curriculum ready.

Applicable to all heathcare education programs

Advances Nationally Recognized Core Competencies

National League for Nursing Informatics Core Competencies NLN, 2006)

• Computer literacy
• Information literacy
• Informatics knowledge and skills

American Association of Colleges of Nursing Competency Standards, The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (2008)

• Information management for patient safety
• Technological resources for evidence-based practice
• Electronic health record/physician order entry
• Decision-support tools
• Technology and information systems safeguards

Health Information Management and Informatics Core Competencies (AHIMA/AMIA, 2008)

• Basic computer literacy skills
• Health information literacy and skills
• Health informatics skills using the electronic health record and personal health record
• Privacy and confidentiality of health information skills
• Health information/data technical security skills

Subscription Includes:

• 24-hour access to the Academic EHR, powered by Cerner Millennium solution, featuring electronic health records of more than 40 real-world “pristine” clinical cases, medical vocabulary and drug databases, faculty-defined reference text, user guides and online help.
• Exclusive, password-protected, customized Web-based software integrating your school/group programs
• License to use Cerner Millennium and The College of St. Scholastica proprietary forms and templates
• Telephone and e-mail technical support (live during business hours or within 24-hours of request)
• Timely set-up for rapid implementation and secure access Training and education events, including periodic webinars

Subscription fees are based on student enrollment and are far more affordable than developing a new system of your own.

The Center for Healthcare Innovation at The College of St. Scholastica offers pedagogical consulting for faculty using the Academic EHR system. Faculty members have more than eight years of experience integrating the Academic EHR into Health Professions curricula at The College of St. Scholastica.

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