MAXIMS Integrated Care Pathways

MAXIMS Integrated Care Pathways represent the primary operational processes in the delivery of healthcare. They provide the main building blocks within clinical workflow, supporting carers with best practice and increased safety. Managers benefit from the naturally improved organisational performance.

Using simple prompts and checklists, MAXIMS Integrated Care Pathways are aimed toward the intuitive needs of clinicians. Pathway prompts are presented along with reminders and Care Plan actions in a simple display geared to the ward or to the role of the carer. Tasks requiring an action such as an X-ray or assessment lead directly to the right screen to carry them out.

As well as standard and configured local libraries, individual tasks may be selected from lists to support tests, assessments or process steps. Users may enter tasks or sticky-pad notes using free text.   

MAXIMS Integrated Care Pathways support local needs and incremental change management and they work with many organisational approaches. As well as standard surgical and medical pathways, they work well with Assessment Units, A&E referral, Out-of-Hours and Emergency Care units. They integrate well with outpatient pathways and management of the 18-week wait, including the MAXIMS Patient Journey Management module. 

Features

• A library of approved pathways ‘ready to go’, national, local or customised.
• Mini-pathways and tasks from a library of ‘task groups’ common in settings or specialities.
• Select, modify, confirm, start; fixed or relative times, repeat and ‘do until’.
• Phases of care and dependency on completion of other tasks or entry of data.
• Soft prompting; ‘available to do’ and ‘due by’.
• View patients and checklists by unit, ward, team or role, such as a phlebotomist, physiotherapist or other specialist carer working across multiple settings.
• One click to call up the clinical module – order-communications, assessments, care plans, returning to the checklist view.
• Live pathways easily modified with additions and removals, including free-text tasks.
• Checklists include actions from Care Plans and Pathology orders.
• Multiple pathways run simultaneously. 
• View of checklists alongside the complete pathway and patient record.
• Notification to ‘remote’ users using InTray message alert.
• Bed management views, occupancy, planned discharge.
• Pre-populated discharge documents.
• Pathway summary and variance reports.
• View-only displays and rapid login when update is needed from any point .
• May be added over an incumbent PAS system.

Benefits

• Increased patient safety throughout the episode.
• Reduced pressure on staff.
• Reduced time finding and sorting notes. 
• Supports and enshrines best practice and reinforces training.
• Supports incremental change management.
• Ease of addition of mini-pathways, ad-hoc and free-text tasks support the realities of the clinical environment.
• Secure handover between units and wards.
• Reduce medical errors and reassure staff through the use of Checklists.
• Encourage uptake and provide quick reference and reminders View-only displays.
• Efficient for specialists with many patients to visit across wards.
• Reduction in errors and saving of staff time through Pre-populated orders.
• Holistic management of multiple conditions. 
• Reduced need to walk wards and manage bed availability.
• Faster to prepare discharge documents.
• Continuous improvement and review of care.
• Achieve benefits ahead of the CfH programme.