Case Study: Silver Cross Hospital achieves 50% reduction in pharmacists' review time and faster IV care with Cerner's CareAware Pharmacy Dashboard

Silver Cross Hospital clinical pharmacists save time, provide quicker care with near real-time dashboard, optimized automated tasking

Silver Cross Hospital’s 20‑bed ICU faced workflow inefficiencies and potential delays in critical IV medication administration because pharmacists and nurses couldn’t easily see remaining drip volumes and were spending excessive time reviewing a redundant target‑drug task list. These challenges risked slower response to changing infusion rates and placed a heavy administrative burden on the pharmacy team.

The hospital implemented the CareAware Pharmacy Infusion Management Dashboard for near‑real‑time drip volumes and moved to automated pharmacy consults/tasks in PowerChart. Combined optimization cut aggregate pharmacist review time by 50% (from about 20 to 10 hours per day for four pharmacists), enabled more proactive dispensing and faster care, and freed pharmacists to expand clinical services and improve patient‑safety initiatives.

Silver Cross Hospital

Parth Patel

Silver Cross Hospital