Earlier this year, clinicians, hospital administrators, and other leaders in the medical field gathered for the American Hospital Association (AHA) Health Forum Critical Conversations in health care event in Texas, which focused on leveraging health care data to improve care.
Dr. William W. Feaster, chief health information officer at CHOC, presented on the ways CHOC is applying intelligence to data and building it into the care process to better understand quality of care and patient satisfaction scores.
CHOC uses Cerner’s HealtheIntentSM platform to bring in data from different sources, such as EHRs, pharmacies and payers. The system normalizes the data and builds “smart registries” for certain high-cost pediatric conditions. Dr. Feaster explained that these registries go beyond tracking patient status and outcomes for a defined population. Built on top of multiple EHRs and other sources, they extract data and then feed key patient information to clinicians at the point of care, creating a living tool, rather than a more static reporting mechanism. Adherence to clinical guidelines at CHOC has improved progressively with the advent of these smart registries.
CHOC is also using analytics to improve asthma care quality and outcomes. Additionally, CHOC is applying machine learning tools to predict readmissions and to provide this information to case managers to better manage the patient discharge process. For outpatients, CHOC is also exploring how these data science tools can help predict and prevent appointment no-shows.
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