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2. To Improve Health Around The World
Through Software Innovation
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3. THEN NOW TOMORROW
Monitoring Monitoring Monitoring
MD exam MD exam MD exam
Nurse observations Nurse Nurse observations
observations Radiology
Radiology Labs
Medications
Labs
Continuous location tracking
Medications
Constant vital signs monitoring
Transcutaneous monitoring
of glucose, ETOH, etc.
Noninvasive testing
Testing to maintain wellness
Increased image utilization
Genomic data
Proteomics
Personalized pharmacy
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4. 2008
1995 Growing
MSHUG Healthcare Presence
formation Working with
standards (i.e. HL7) 2007 2008
ActiveX for Healthcare Acquisition of
Windows NT
SQL Server
Biztalk HIPAA
1995 Accelerator⌠2005
Microsoft Health Solutions 2006 2007
Acquisition 2007
Healthcare Group
of Azyxxi Acquisition of
Team Peter Neupert
1999 from WHC Medstory
Established Re-joins Microsoft
health from Drugstore.com
& fitness To lead HSG
1995 1999 2005 2006 2007 2008
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5. Amalga UIS
Modules Other HealthVault
Medical Imaging Partner Applications
Research Foundation
Quality Measures
Country, State or Regional Government Connected Heath Solutions
Existing Healthcare and Life Sciences Applications HealthVault Partner Applications
Windows, Office, SharePoint, SQL ServerâŚ
Enterprise Consumer
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6.
7. Healthcare organizations today have an
incredible task: To consistently meet the
tremendous challenges and opportunities
for patient safety, service quality, and
healthcare costs containment*
*American Society for Engineering Education, 2007
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9. â. . . Microsoft's . . . introduction of the Amalga
product line raises the competitive level in
our view and pushes all competitors.â
Vi Shaffer, VP Research, Healthcare
Gartner Group
Presented at the Gartner Healthcare Summit, 11/18/2008
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10. Connected
Electronic
Paper-Based
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11. Extensions Modules
Packaged Commercial apps
configurations
Microsoft and Quality Measures
Customer community
driven Research Foundation
Medical Imaging
⢠Baseline configurations: database schema, parsing scripts, views, appsâŚ
Amalga UIS ⢠Core components: DADE, data store, application services, toolsâŚ
Infrastructure Client Server
Redundancy Viewers Data acquisition sub-system
HIPAA Alarms and alerts Parsing sub-system
Scalability Report writer Application services
Access Control Print Barcode Data store
Scan chart
Amalga Manager
Amalga Web
HealthVault Connection
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12. Empower Users
Liberate Data
Connect Health
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13. Empower Users
Liberate Data
Connect Health
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14. Liberate
Data
Core Rapid Throughput PHR Ambulatory
Measures Response Tracking integration Inpatient
Charge & Care IHI Quality Infection
Payment Quality Triggers Scorecard Tracking
Analysis Analysis
Labor and Time and Advanced Interface
Dictation Hospice Budgeting
Delivery Attendance Visualization Engines
Financial (7 vendors) (3 vendors)
(4 vendors) (5 vendors)
(5 vendors) (7 vendors)
(3 vendors)
System
Ambulatory
EMR Ambulatory Other
EMPI PACS Anesthesia
(Small Specialty medical
(5 vendors) (31 vendors) (1 vendor)
practice) (4 vendors) Devices
(18 vendors)
Integrated
Clinical
Information Lab Patient
Laboratory
System Anatomic Monitoring
Blood Bank CT Ultrasound Ventilators
Fetal
Pathology System monitors
(9 vendors)
(6 vendors) (1 vendor)
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15. Liberate
Data
Core Rapid Throughput PHR Ambulatory
Measures Response Tracking integration Inpatient
CMO
Researcher
Charge & Care IHI Quality Infection
Payment Quality Triggers Scorecard Tracking
Analysis Analysis
ICU Nurse Quality Manager Compliance Officer Finance Manager
Labor and Time and Advanced Interface
Dictation Hospice Budgeting
Delivery Attendance Visualization Engines
Financial (7 vendors) (3 vendors)
(4 vendors) (5 vendors)
(5 vendors) (7 vendors)
(3 vendors)
System
Ambulatory
EMR Ambulatory Other
EMPI PACS Anesthesia
(Small Specialty medical
(5 vendors) (31 vendors) (1 vendor)
practice) (4 vendors) Devices
(18 vendors)
Integrated
Clinical
Information Lab Patient
Laboratory
System Anatomic Monitoring
Blood Bank CT Ultrasound Ventilators
Fetal
Pathology System monitors
(9 vendors)
(6 vendors) (1 vendor)
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16. Liberate
Data
⢠49 data feeds from
⢠14 hospitals
⢠Across 2 states
⢠Accomplished in 6 months
⢠By a 4-person team
Organizations contributing data to the WHIE:
⢠More than12 area hospitals contributing data
⢠More than100 hospital based clinics contributing data
Organizations accessing data:
⢠10 EDs across the state
⢠2 public health offices
⢠1 payer
⢠10 non-HL7 data source feeds
⢠Both electronic (lab results, meds) and image (MRI, PET scan) data
⢠Accomplished in 4 months
⢠5-person team
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17. Empower Users
Liberate Data
Connect Health
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18. Empower
Users
â. . . until every knowledge worker who has a
question can say, âI
could find the
information I needed and answer
that question myselfâ, weâll still have
work to do.â
Steve Ballmer, CEO
Microsoft
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19. Empower
Users
â˘
â˘
â˘
â˘
â˘
⢠â˘
⢠We are doing an analysis of hospital readmissions
â˘
â˘
â˘
from home care. How many patients were discharged
â˘
from a hospital and within 30 days transferred back
â˘
to an acute care center? What care did they receive?
â˘
â˘
Did they come back to us? What are we doing
⢠to avoid readmission? Who is tracking?
â˘
â˘
â˘
â˘
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20. Empower
Users
Iâm overwhelmed
I donât I need to with queriesâŚ
Whatâs going on? have insight⌠take actionâŚ
It will take two weeks to
pull the data togetherâŚ
Corporate Manager,
Administrator
Business & Database Analysts
Clinicians, Managers, Staff
BI Dashboards Data Warehouse
(if present)
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21. Empower
Users
I can help people
I have real-time I can take action to understand
Whatâs going on? insight⌠and monitor⌠their dataâŚ
I can spend time
on analysisâŚ
Corporate Manager,
Administrator
Business & Database Analysts
Clinicians, Managers, Staff
Staff
BI Dashboards Reporting
Data Warehouse
Unknown
Data Mart
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22. Empower
Users
What are the
root causes
Which AMI behind the
patients did missed aspirin
not receive administration?
aspirin?
Which
Has the
physicians are
right
not accurately
diagnosis
capturing co-
code been
morbidity
applied?
codes?
Has this
patient been
to an ED in What is
the last 3 causing
months? unnecessary
ED visits?
Real time Over time
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23. Empower
Users
Current view: i.e. ED Navigation and
view may include function buttons
patients from multiple Displays current
hospitals patient count
Details and values
displayed in columns
Color-blind proof palette
with ribbon like banner
for most used functions
Patients displayed
in rows â However
this can be any data
element like Excel
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24. Empower
Users
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25. Empower
Users
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26. Empower
Users
⢠Consolidated real-time view
of 3 EDs
⢠Drill down to patient detail
⢠Graphically depict ED
population across the
countyâs organization
âWith Amalga, we can easily view data
âWith Amalga, we can easily view data
from different perspectives -- from the
from different perspectives -- from the
patient level to the location level, from the
patient level to the location level, from the
population level to the patient level, from
population level to the patient level, from
the micro level to the macro level â
the micro level to the macro level â
in a single system.ââ
in a single system.
Kim Jackson
Director, Clinical Informatics
St. Joseph Health System
Orange, CA
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27. Empower
Users
âNow that we have all the data available, we can change our focus from the mundane nagging for data
and data collection methods to focusing on using the data to improve care quality.â
Kim Jackson, Director of Clinical Informatics, St. Joseph Health System
Nag Police Partner
To produce a critical care dashboard, ⢠One source for data â no calls
the central office had to call all 14 facilities ⢠Easier, more accurate near real-time
and nag for data; 4 months later a colored data collection
dashboard was produced.
⢠Transformation of quality analysts from data
nags to partners for perfect care
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28. Empower Users
Liberate Data
Connect Health
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29. Connect
Care
⢠enterprise
physician
⢠enterprise
patient-controlled data
⢠separate
organizations
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30. Connect
Care
Amalga Web â anytime, anywhere physician access
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31. Connect
Care
Connecting ambulatory and inpatient data
Continuity of care
record problem list
pulled from
outpatient Allscripts
TouchWorks
⢠View Allscripts and Meditech
data from a single system
⢠Does not require physicians to Information
learn new systems â they view including
from the intuitive Amalga UIS grid medications,
doses, active
status to make
critical ED
decisions
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32. Connect
Care
Health System Community
⢠Medications
⢠Discharge
Amalga Amalg
instructions
Web a Web results
⢠Lab test
Recor
d
⢠EKG Report
⢠Operative Report
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33. Connect
Care
Health System Community
Amalga
Web Recor
d
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34. Connect
Care
Amalga UIS - HealthVault Connection
On admission, patients provide data
On discharge from the hospital,
from their HealthVault accounts to the
a discharge summary is transmitted to
hospitalâs instance of Amalga.*
HealthVault through the use of a CCR.
⢠Medications, allergies, and discrete
⢠Data can be transmitted in a discrete form
results from home devices
(blood pressure, if available. Otherwise, it will be sent as
blood glucose) unstructured text.
Information from HealthVault should not be used by healthcare providers to make treatment decisions without
independent evaluation, and only after being copied into the healthcare providerâs own system.
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35. Connect
Care
16
14
Hospitals contributing ADT Data to WHIE
12
10
8
6 Hospital EDs Using WHIE
4 Public Health Offices using WHIE
2 Payers Contributing Claims Data to WHIE
0
The really exciting part is we have just started -- we have only scratched the surface
of the opportunity that we have in using information . . . the sky is the
limit. We have really just started and it is an exciting ride.
Kim Pemble
Executive Director, Wisconsin Health Information Exchange
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36. Connect
Care
âAmalga is creating a platform for the future
for St. Joseph. Because of the flexible use of data stored
in Amalga, I believe we will have more choices in
assessing future investment decisions, thus reducing
our IT spend over time.â
Larry Stofko, CIO
St. Joseph Health System
Orange, CA
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37. Connect
Care
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38. Connect
Care
Amalga UIS
Amalga UIS Imaging Amalga UIS Quality
Partner Solutions Research Foundation
Module Measures Module
Module
Health Industry Solutions
Business Solutions (Dynamics CRMâŚ)
Connected Health Platform a.k.a. Solution Accelerators (HCE, XDS.bâŚ)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (Office, SPS, UC)
TIME TO VALUE
Application Platform Optimization (SQL, Biztalk, VSâŚ)
Core Infrastructure Optimization (Windows 7, WinServer, HyperVâŚ)
Connected Health Framework (white papers, guidance)
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Editor's Notes
Over the past twelve years Microsoft has steadily increased its investments and commitment to health. In 2005, the Health Solutions group was created when our corporate VP, Peter Neupert, came on board at the direct request of Steve Ballmer to explore and create solutions for healthcare more deeply. Peterâs been a long time Microsoft employee. He led the OS/2 team and then he orchestrated the MSNBC deal before leaving Microsoft to go on and establish Drugstore.com. After a few years as the CEO of Drugstore.com Peter was on the United States Presidentâs IT Advisory Council when he decided to come back to Microsoft to help us focus very specifically on healthcare and healthcare IT solutions. Over the course of the following 2 years, HSG purchased key technologies to create a foundation of solutions to address pressing challenges that other IT organizations were not meeting. The result is the solution set we have today â a Family of enterprise solutions, Amalga, and HealthVault, a platform for consumer information. Today, we have some of healthcareâs leading providers using Microsoft Health Solution Groupâs innovative solutions. Microsoft is the only IT provider simultaneously addressing health information needs from both a consumer and enterprise viewpoint, to advance a vision of unifying health information and making it more readily available, ensuring the best quality of life and affordable care for everyone.
Over the past twelve years Microsoft has steadily increased its investments and commitment to health. In 2005, the Health Solutions group was created when our corporate VP, Peter Neupert, came on board at the direct request of Steve Ballmer to explore and create solutions for healthcare more deeply. Peterâs been a long time Microsoft employee. He led the OS/2 team and then he orchestrated the MSNBC deal before leaving Microsoft to go on and establish Drugstore.com. After a few years as the CEO of Drugstore.com Peter was on the United States Presidentâs IT Advisory Council when he decided to come back to Microsoft to help us focus very specifically on healthcare and healthcare IT solutions. Over the course of the following 2 years, HSG purchased key technologies to create a foundation of solutions to address pressing challenges that other IT organizations were not meeting. The result is the solution set we have today â a Family of enterprise solutions, Amalga, and HealthVault, a platform for consumer information. Today, we have some of healthcareâs leading providers using Microsoft Health Solution Groupâs innovative solutions. Microsoft is the only IT provider simultaneously addressing health information needs from both a consumer and enterprise viewpoint, to advance a vision of unifying health information and making it more readily available, ensuring the best quality of life and affordable care for everyone.
Amalga, HV and Sentillion customers listed Sentillion customers(bottom left) to the original slide- SHARP, Adventist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS, CHOAHV customers top left column of slide- CVS, Aetna, Kaiser, AHA, VirtuaBumrungard(HIS)And Amalga(rest)- St joseph, Virtua, DCPCA, Golden Living, providence, seattle Kids, John hopkins, tenet,medstar, novant, caritas, El Camino, Scripps.Also grouped together those where can relay similar stories- for example NYP and Virtua both have Amalga and HV.
KLAS recently came out with a report which featured Amalga and several other vendors, in which it stated . .. That Amalga provides a âmajor advancement in defining, storing and accessing healthcare data.â
Now, letâs take a look how far we've come and how we can leverage Microsoft Amalga to take your current assets to the next level... To optimize care.Most organizations have come a long way from the paper based days of old. Data in a paper base world was manually captured at the point of care, filed on a shelf making it very difficult to analyze one patientâs data, much less a collection of patients.Over the past 20 years, your organizations have increasingly deployed electronic systems to capture and store information at the point of care, which has automated a number of manual processes and increased patient care by giving clinicians a better view of patient data. This has, however, increased the need for data interfaces across best of breed systems and created silos of data.  Additionally, all hospital staff â clinicians, administrators, leadership -- are getting a taste for the value of real-time data and are becoming thirsty for consolidated knowledge and a unified view of patient care, facility and resource management.[RR] In order to get to the next level you need a system that allows for a consolidated view of all the information assets dispersed in various silos throughout the organization. This new approach should allow you to more easily accommodate new data types, standard or otherwise and function as the platform for your next level of insight.Enter Microsoft Amalga, the new unified intelligence platform that enables your current investments to be ultimately useful. Amalga brings all of your data together in a flexible repository and enables a four-dimensional view of patients and populations. Amalga leverages current health data standards but does not require them. Now you can use all of your health data in evolutionary ways because everything that is fed into the system is stored in the state that it was received and can be replayed for innovative uses in the future. Finally, Amalga has been built to facilitate changes to your environment with the ability to accept new data and scale with the rate of your organization.
Whatâs under the hood in Amalga â point here is they got a lot of stuff in Amalga that is part of the system. All these tools and components are what make Amalga so unique â and the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. Amalga Extensions are in development, and will be offered as part of the core Amalga solution offering & price. These are tools that allow organizations to get to a faster time to value by creating solutions such as quality scorecards, infection control and population management out of the box. These will be offered both by Microsoft and our customers, and we plan to build a connected community to allow our customers to share these.In the future, we plan to offer Amalga Modules â which will be applications developed by Microsoft or partners that will leverage the data stored in Amalga.
While there has been a move away from best-of-breed to tighter integration, the reality is that:No single vendor can house ALL data We talked about being within an era of hyper-change â this means that niche solutions will always emerge to address unforeseen requirements, creating more silos of dataThese systems typically present data from a patient-centric point of view, which is valuable at the point-of-care. However, to transform organizations, operations, quality, etc. . . . organizations often need to view data from a different angle â by cohorts, by clinician, by disease state, etc. Itâs not easy to get these types of views today. Finally, these systems were developed to address well-defined needs, and so are optimized and highly structured to serve a specific âboundâ function. As a result, the information stored in these systems are not agile â they tend to be âlockedâ in a single view, and unfortunately, sometimes even locked within that system.
While there has been a move away from best-of-breed to tighter integration, the reality is that:No single vendor can house ALL data We talked about being within an era of hyper-change â this means that niche solutions will always emerge to address unforeseen requirements, creating more silos of dataThese systems typically present data from a patient-centric point of view, which is valuable at the point-of-care. However, to transform organizations, operations, quality, etc. . . . organizations often need to view data from a different angle â by cohorts, by clinician, by disease state, etc. Itâs not easy to get these types of views today. Finally, these systems were developed to address well-defined needs, and so are optimized and highly structured to serve a specific âboundâ function. As a result, the information stored in these systems are not agile â they tend to be âlockedâ in a single view, and unfortunately, sometimes even locked within that system.
St. Joseph Hospital is a large Catholic healthcare provider with a tradition and commitment to excellence, based on the vision of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. The hospital system, with its 3,800 employees in California and southern Texas, provides healthcare and collaborates with the 1,000-member medical staffs and other healthcare providers to increase access to quality healthcare. St. Josephâs of Orange County plans to use Amalga to help deliver on three strategic objectives: Perfect Care â providing every patient with highest level of care possible, Healthiest Communities â working to make the communities they serve the healthiest and Sacred Encounter â ensuring interaction with their community is meaningful and purposeful. Unlike the WHIE, which has a highly complex and disparate number of data sources, St. Josephâs IT structure is fairly homogenous. However, for the first time ever, they can see data from all 14 hospitals. They have also integrated the data housed in their inpatient and ambulatory systems. The integration of patient data between inpatient and ambulatory settings â across settings of care -- is a pressing need in the health care industry and also one of its most pressing challenges. St. Josephâs cost-effectively addressed this challenge with Amalga. Amalga is complementary to their core IT systems, including Meditech and Allscipts. St. Joeâs recognizes they cannot get everything from a single vendor. And, because they can compare the raw data in Amalga to the data in their core systems, they can see errors in data in the core source systems that they were unable to see before.Larry Sofko, St. Joeâs CIO, recently discussed in a webinar about how he felt Amalga will help future-proof their organization, reducing the need to bring on new vendors and reduce the cost and complexity of their IT infrastructure. They plan to use Amalga in a number of very exciting ways that will help them drive their mission of Perfect Care â driving better clinical decision-making by being able to ask questions like âfor this type of problem, how have others been treated and how did they do with those treatments?â â providing the required information for continuous quality improvement programs like LEAN, and evaluating data from their CPOE system with outcomes and financial impact information to determine experienced-based best practices in treatment plans.
Is the miss in aspirin administration a result of ordering, pharmacy delivering or nurse administration process issues?
Showing screens shots that went live in the St. Joseph Health system on July 1st. This is a view listing current emergency department patients within Orange County. St. Joes has three hospitals in Orange County St. Joseph Hospital, Mission Hospital and St. Jude Medical Center. In this example you can see 223 current ED patients across those three hospitals. To quote Larry Stofko, CIO. âThis is something we could never do before Amalga. We have independent instances of our MediTech system we would typically run reports, and those transaction systems are very good but this is a snapshot, a real-time access to this information across our Orange County organization.âWithin a single system, Amalga allows St. Joeâs to get a listing of ED patients across all three hospitals, then they can drill down into patient detail. Then they can even roll-it up to get view of the ED department across the region.
Prior to implementing Amalga, the Quality analysts at St. Josephâs were âdata nags.â Much of their time was spent calling each hospital to collect information. The challenge and annoyance was magnified because there were multiple analysts, all requiring information for their various reports. Each would call the same person at each hospital to ask for information. From the analystâs viewpoint, most of their time was spent on the mundane â collecting data, putting it into reports, working amongst themselves to verify information. And after all their âannoyingâ requests for data, it would take them 4 months to put together a dashboard to send back to the hospital. By that time, who is really interested in 4-month old quality reporting? How relevant is that? How can you make improvements based on information that old.With Amalga, the quality analysts can now see data from ALL 14 hospitals in real-time. With no need to call and nag for information, and with a single store of data that the different analysts can choose from, these analysts can NOW spend their time focusing on how the information can be used to improve care quality.
By clicking on any of the arterial blood gas components, the viewer is zoomed into Lab Details. In this view, all the component test results from the Arterial Blood Gas panel are displayed horizontally along with the historical ABG results. This can be transposed, graphed or printed. If the ABG panels had different normal ranges, they would appear in additional columns to highlight the differences, and could be merged for viewing purposes if necessary.
St. Josephâs is very excited about the continuity of care record information and supports how St. Josephâs is addressing community health and health information requirements. These 2 overlayed screens support these objectives. The first one on the top is actually a continuity of care record diagnosis or problem list that is coming across from the outpatient AllscriptsTouchWorks system from a patientâs primary care provider. So you see as there are different diagnoses out there â itâs essentially a problem list. So imagine a patient shows up unconscious at one of our Emergency Departments, the ED can basically call up within Amalga, and can see the problem list. Then the second view, the bottom half of the screen, are the medications that this patient was actually prescribed and is receiving from his primary care or specialist provider outside of the hospital. This is quick, a couple of clicks to information that most people can only hope that they are able to share even in a conscious state. In this case, itâs four medications, the doses, the names, whether theyâre active or not, are displayed. Youâre not basing it off of the patient or their family membersâ recollection of what medications they are receiving outside of the hospital. To quote Larry Stofko, âThis is really, really exciting for us, and actually taking something weâve hoped to do and to bring it into reality in a real-time basis.â
TALKING POINTS -- BenefitsImproved care45% of patient visits to one hospital already had information in the WHIE from another institution (20 patients/data with > 3 ED visits within the last year).Patient encounter history supports critical continuity of care20 patients/day with > 3 ED visits within last year Reduced costsReduced ancillary services in 25% of encountersReduced required level of service from comprehensive to basic for 5 patients/dayEstimated facility ED charge savings @ $2,000 - $3,500 per encounter = $3.6 â $6.3 million annuallyPublic health improvementsNear real-time effortless public health survellience
Here is one of our Amalga early adopters. Larry Stofko, the CIO of St. Joseph, believes that they will be able to reduce their IT spend on new applications over time.Complementing applications . . . Lets us go either way . . .