Intermenez Health medical informatics have developed an evidence-based clinical decision support platform that uses evidence-based medicine and artificial intelligence to accelerate patient treatment and integrate with health records. electronic health in real time.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
According to Craig Richardville, chief digital and information officer for the nonprofit health system, every Intermenez Health hospital or urgent care service in seven states will eventually be able to access the new platform, ePneumonia applications and future applications.
Emergency room physicians at Intermenez Medical Center in Murray, Utah, have used these tools to improve the speed of diagnosis and accelerate the treatment of pneumonia.
“Patient care is often complex and very personal,” Richardville said in Friday’s statement.
The new platform helps providers “provide patients with the best possible, personalized care and helps ensure the right decisions are made at the right time.”
Dr. Kathryn Kuttler, director of advanced decision support at Intermountain, explains that the platform is a standards-based workflow tool that integrates a variety of services.
Operating outside of the EHR and using the common standard healthcare language of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, the platform enables clinicians to read and write to patients’ health records in real time.
It also continuously updates its workflow as new test results are added to a patient’s medical record, and uses artificial intelligence and deep neural networks to interpret chest images.
“Diagnostic services are performed by AI, the Bayesian network,” said Kuttler.
Intermountain says clinicians use data from the ePneumonia app — along with information and nuances they’ve gathered during patient visits — to help them determine the best treatment.
Dr. Nathan Dean, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Intermountain Medical Center and the study’s principal investigator, says the app has broad applications, because of the care instructions. previously published pneumonia care are difficult to follow at the bedside and they have complex workflows. research.
“In our studies, we have demonstrated a relative reduction in the 30-day mortality rate for pneumonia patients by 36%, meaning more than 100 lives are saved annually. We observed a higher patient rate. outpatients from the emergency department increased 17% and increased use of antibiotic best practices.”
Dean also notes that the ePneumonia app is also “one of the most complex to build, as there are more than 50 data elements used to diagnose, assess disease severity, and make decisions for patients.” pneumonia patient.”
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Combining machine learning with evidence-based decision support to reduce diagnostic errors is a key focus of digital transformation innovations for care delivery.
Dr John Halamka, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, previously said: “Combining newly developed algorithms that take advantage of machine learning, neural networks and many other types of artificial intelligence is possible. help to solve many of the shortcomings of human intelligence”. Healthcare IT News.
More recently, David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, said the widespread adoption of FHIRs would open up a wide range of data that could aid access to clinically relevant data and could even reduce it. reduce post-chart and post-meeting assessments for contract-based risk.
“The document needs to reflect a complete record of what you did to manage that condition for that patient,” he said at a meeting in January. HIMSS TV Digital Check about diagnostic connected data.
He said that, especially with value-based care, service delivery organizations need to be able to “see all the data at a glance” and make sure they’re meeting requirements.
“We needed a new set of tools that could allow doctors, nurses, everyone else to see the information they need, when they need it, and that information to focus on diagnosis.”
ON PROFILE
“The platform has the ability to efficiently execute and present complex clinical processes, and enables faster development of both clinical and business workflows,” Kuttler said in the statement.
Additionally, “this will help create a more seamless experience for the patient.”
Dr. Diego Ize-Ludlow, Intermountain’s director of medical information, added:
“This novel platform and the ePneumonia app are both tools that really align with what we’re doing in general in value-based care: diagnosing patients earlier, improving safety and quality of patient care, with the simultaneous goal of reducing healthcare costs.”
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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