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Teaming Up on Emerging Technologies
iAutomation:
Eliminating the boundaries to
Shane McNamee, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer, Perspecta
Ben Cushing
Director, Federal Health and Science, Red Hat
using Red Hat technology. Through HealthConcourse, we gather data from multiple sources and translate it all into the same language to create event-driven models for medical care. The platform
acts as a sophisticated data hub that offers intelligent data as a service. It includes a cognitive layer that allows us to conduct sophisticated diagnostics and even apply intelligent automation to best practices and processes.
We are essentially building an air traffic control system for patients that improves quality and declutters workflows to allow health care providers to do what they do best: work with patients to understand their goals and support them on their personal health journeys.
health care
Perspecta and Red Hat have joined forces to achieve an open-source, standards-first vision of a patient-centric health system
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
has exposed the reality that
our health care system is not a system at all but a series of disconnected providers who struggle to coordinate with one another and support patients on their health journeys.
The first generation of health IT
was not built around patients. Instead, electronic health records and other systems were created to capture internally focused billing information, and they were based on proprietary models that restrict integration and ultimately restrict quality and flow of care at health IT system boundaries.
A patient is a different person in every medical system he or she encounters; hence, continuity of care across
providers is filled with barriers. The same challenges are pervasive in federal, state and local government health agencies. Even when data comes into the system in a timely manner, it’s often unstructured and cannot be reconciled with the existing record.
That puts a heavier burden on doctors, who have to build their own mental model of what a particular patient needs. Data could enable continuity of care if it is able to flow between different systems and if there is a cognitive layer that allows us to distinguish the signal from the noise.
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Event-driven risk detection: An air traffic control system for patients
We envision a future of care without boundaries — a system built around patients and driven by standards, automation and open-source technology. Such a system
can give health care providers the ability
to ensure that their patients are moving toward quality outcomes. Today, patient risk data is generally pulled only from eight- week-old billing data. To fix health care’s exorbitant cost and opaque quality, we need near-real-time monitoring of critical risks from electronic health records and patient wearables.
That’s one of the promises of HealthConcourse, which Perspecta built
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