Safra Children’s Hospital, at Sheba Medical Center, enhances prescribing accuracy and clinical communication with MetaVision

About the hospital

Safra Children’s Hospital is Israel’s leading pediatric facility and part of Sheba Medical Center—ranked among the world’s top hospitals. Safra provides compassionate, comprehensive care for children of all ages and medical needs, from premature infants to teens with chronic and critical conditions. The hospital houses a broad range of pediatric services and specialties and is internationally recognized for its excellence in care, research, and innovation.

The challenge

Pediatric critical care at Safra Children’s Hospital involves caring for patients ranging from extremely premature infants to older teenagers, each with very different physiological needs. Managing this wide spectrum requires clinicians to organize large volumes of clinical information and make complex treatment decisions quickly.

The hospital’s critical care services span several specialized units, including neonatal intensive care (NICU), a preemie ward, pediatric intensive care (PICU), and pediatric cardiac critical care. These departments manage complex cases where clinicians must interpret multiple sources of patient data while prescribing medications with precise infusion concentrations tailored to each patient’s age, weight, and condition. Safra needed an electronic clinical information system that could clearly organize patient information and support safe prescribing across this wide pediatric spectrum.

The solution

Safra Children’s Hospital implemented MetaVision as its clinical information system for pediatric critical care, using it across the NICU, PICU, preemie ward, and pediatric cardiac critical care unit. The PICU has 20 beds, while pediatric cardiac critical care manages approximately 16–18 beds. MetaVision is also used in Sheba Medical Center’s adult critical care department.

According to Dr. David Gilad, Pediatrics Resident at Safra Children’s Hospital, one of the system’s key advantages is how patient data is organized and presented. MetaVision presents clinical information in a clear layout that allows clinicians to move quickly between different views of the patient record, from summarized lists to detailed data organized by clinical systems.

The system also includes a medication ordering module designed for pediatric care. Clinicians can create complex infusion orders with different concentrations tailored to patients ranging from very small premature infants to older teenagers.

The results

In Safra’s pediatric critical care units, MetaVision helps clinicians safely manage complex cases by organizing the large volumes of patient data generated during treatment. Clinicians can access information from vital signs, ventilators, laboratory results, imaging, consultations, and treatment orders in one place. This gives them a clear view of the patient’s condition while providing a structured place to document ongoing care.

MetaVision also supports coordination among care teams. Shared task lists help physicians and nurses stay aligned on clinical responsibilities such as laboratory tests, routine care, medication administration, and other orders, so that everyone understands what needs to be done and when. Dr. Gilad comments: “I love the ease of use. The interface is adapted to our daily work and helps prevent errors from less experienced practitioners.”

Other key benefits reported by clinicians include:

• Clear organization of patient data – Clinical information is structured so physicians can quickly understand complex cases and access key details.
• Safe pediatric prescribing – The medication module enables clinicians to write precise orders for complex infusions and different concentrations to support patients with widely varying physiological needs.
• Improved team coordination – Task lists and shared workflows help physicians and nurses maintain clear communication about orders, routine care, and follow-up tasks.

Looking ahead, Dr. Gilad believes digital clinical tools will increasingly incorporate mobile access. He notes that this will require careful management and safeguards so physicians can review patient information securely on their phones.

“The strongest clinical benefit of MetaVision is the layout and how all the data on the patient is laid out in a very clear way… And the medication order module is specific enough for us to write complex orders for drips, and for different concentrations of drips.”

Dr. David Gilad, Pediatrics Resident, Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center