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Turn health data into actionable, cost-saving strategies
oday’s healthcare challenges are no mystery. Hospitals and health systems are navigating the transition to value-based care while continuing to rely on traditional fee-for-service reimbursement models. Uncertainty about the future of health care in the United States is making this shift even more complex as organizations seek a path forward that conquers both known (and unknown) challenges ahead.
The standard advice heard across the industry is to “leverage data,” but how does a health system do this? Every healthcare delivery network in the country is rich with data, but how can this resource be applied for each of your care settings, clinicians and provider groups, payers and reimbursement models, and shifting populations?
Ensuring high quality patient care and outcomes while balancing financial realities in an evolving market requires a robust data analytics solution—one that can handle the breadth and complexity of health care today without an army of data analysts to make it work.
The 3M Performance Matrix Platform is a data analytics and performance management solution that combines 3M Health Information Systems’ decades of coding and risk-adjustment experience with the data processing power of Verily, an Alphabet company. The platform simultaneously analyzes performance in managing populations throughout your network across all visits, episodes of care and disease cohorts to:
- Automatically identify the root causes of quality issues and excess costs to strengthen performance
- Prioritize system-wide problem areas using advanced intelligent data processing power
Work with experienced professionals to drive sustainable behavior change and process improvement
With Verily’s big data computing power, the Performance Matrix platform applies 3M’s risk adjustment methodologies and performance measures to all available data. It then mines this enriched data to identify and prioritize key problem areas. Rather than deploying teams of data analysts, the technology does the work for you.
Using Verily’s analytics engine and 3M’s real-world, proven methodologies, the platform helps improve performance by focusing on areas and interdependencies of preventable clinical and financial issues that stem from:
- Under- and over-utilization of services or care settings
- Avoidable care, such as readmissions and complications
- Unnecessary costs
- Post-acute services
3M Performance Matrix analyzes aggregated data against dozens of performance measures to identify and describe the most impactful problem areas. This combination of problem prioritization and analysis helps you focus on what can be fixed, and done differently, going forward. 3M Health Information Systems
Hyland Healthcare’s enterprise imaging
Hyland Healthcare’s suite of enterprise imaging solutions allow healthcare providers to control all clinical image content—including images from specialty departments. When integrated with a clinical imaging system or EHR, clinicians and staff can view medical images in the context of the patient record from within those familiar systems.
Eliminating departmental imaging silos improves clinical workflows, strengthens security of protected health information (PHI), enhances disaster recovery, and eases the burden of building and supporting multiple clinical imaging interfaces to the EHR. The following are core components of Hyland Healthcare’s enterprise imaging portfolio.
Acuo VNA
The Acuo Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) provides standards-based enterprise access to medical images regardless of viewing application, offering independence from proprietary archives, and streamlining clinical workflows.
The solution leverages technologies to support the management and sharing of medical images across the enterprise and beyond, allowing providers to assemble a comprehensive image-enabled patient record.
With on-site, cloud, and hybrid deployment options, Acuo VNA supports business continuity and disaster recovery strategies while providing a platform for clinical content integration, interoperability, and exchange.
NilRead
NilRead, a multi-specialty, zero-footprint enterprise viewer, provides a universal vendor-independent platform for accessing a full range of DICOM and non-DICOM image data. Integrating seamlessly with most EHR, PACS, or VNA, NilRead identifies and ingests images from virtually any departmental archiving solution—whether dermatology JPEGs, data-intensive virtual pathology slides, or radiology DICOM files.
This scalable solution is based on a zero footprint, web-based architecture, meaning only a browser is needed to launch the application. There is no software or plug-ins and images never reside on the workstation. NilRead runs on any web-enabled mobile device, tablet, or PC, providing clinicians with constant access to medical images and remarkable tools to enable collaboration across the enterprise.
PACSgear
PACSgear solutions complete the enterprise imaging framework by allowing providers to capture a variety of documents, film, photos, video, and other media and integrate them with any EHR, VNA, or PACS. Hyland Healthcare’s ModLink software uses DICOM Structured Report or HL7 measurement data from ultrasound, DEXA, and CT devices to auto-populate reports in voice recognition systems. Meanwhile, ImageLink worklist solution manages HL7 to DICOM MWL mappings, facilitating Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) workflow for interoperability with existing PACS.
PACSgear connectivity offerings:
PACS Scan, PACS Scan Mobile, PACS Scan Film, PACS Scan Web, EHR Gateway, ModLink, Media Writer, Gear View QC, MDR Video – Touch, ScopeCap, DICOM Box, and Image Link.
Hyland Healthcare
Alliance Community Hospital first MEDITECH customer to deploy CommonWell Services
MEDITECH, an Enterprise Health Record (EHR) vendor and Contributor Member of CommonWell Health Alliance, has deployed CommonWell interoperability services at Alliance Community Hospital (ACH). The capabilities will enable ACH, a non-profit hospital serving the residents of Alliance, OH, to exchange patient information seamlessly for improved patient care and quality outcomes.
MEDITECH is the first EHR vendor in CommonWell to deploy the Argonaut Project’s FHIR specifications to customers for the purpose of document exchange, providing near real-time access to a participating patient’s data. Embedded directly into the MEDITECH EHR, these CommonWell services include patient enrollment capabilities and C-CDA exchange, opening the door for more comprehensive sharing of discrete segments of data in the future, such as medication and allergy data.
Today, more than 9,300 provider sites are Live on CommonWell services across the nation, and more than 30 million individuals are enrolled..
Accelerate and improve patient care anytime, anywhere with secure mobile app AlertView
AlertView, the mobile application developed by Novarad Healthcare Enterprise Imaging, was created to accelerate healthcare by notifying physicians via text message that reports and findings are ready for review.
AlertView makes healthcare more efficient by eliminating unnecessary delays in the review of imaging reports. The AlertView app instantly sends a text message to referring physicians, radiologists, or cardiologists alerting them that a report is ready for review. No matter where they are, they can review with one click on the text message, and have this instantly shared with other medical care professionals. This type of mobile communication and collaboration improves patient outcomes while minimizing disruptions for primary care physicians and hospital staff.
The app’s features include secure login with TouchID, a dynamic patient list to enable quick searches, extensive filtering including modality and time filters, a convenient basic report view along with an in-depth full report view, display of all key images in the study, and enhanced data security through deep linking
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