In healthcare, the need to conform to government regulations and the ever-increasing desire to improve patient outcomes results in a significant challenge to stay competitive. How can you provide better care while avoiding risk and raising revenue? By properly utilizing healthcare information technology. Technological solutions allow healthcare providers to streamline processes and raise operational efficiency.
Most health networks have multiple records per patient with no easy way to link these records for a full, cohesive picture of the patient’s health and the services they require. This unconnected infrastructure results in slower care, higher costs, and reduces efficiency on a large scale. TIBCO’s solution provides a unified electronic health record that links each admission across multiple care settings, thus increasing operational efficiency for a view of each patient that is single, complete, and unique.
This unified view of patients is just the starting point for clinicians. The integrated data network also allows for comprehensive management of complex networks from population management, to financial information, to long-term patient health tracking. When all these systems are integrated, it becomes possible to develop a web-based patient registry to present medical information in an easy-to-use format that helps clinicians and patients connect. This master record of patient care across the network strengthens chronic disease management and targets pay-for-performance objectives.
Currently in use at Rush Health, a provider network with over 35,000 annual admissions and more than 500,000 outpatient visits, TIBCO created the Master Patient Index, a powerful tool to optimize clinical outcomes and cost efficiencies.
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“The next five or 10 years are going to be very exciting for healthcare on the IT side.” -Theresa Burkhart, Vice President, Rush Health
