Today's hospitals face relentless pressure to improve quality, especially in the operating room. This challenge requires insights into root causes of problems and unnecessary clinical variations, which are notoriously difficult to diagnose.
As a counter measure, hospitals are turning to analytics solutions that are embedded directly within perioperative workflows. Such technology converges IoT tools with healthcare analytics to produce actionable data -- that is, data which is near real time and relevant to the patient, and can be acted on during the episode of care. This includes during critical care transitions, such as between prep and surgery, and from surgery to recovery. Moreover, actionable data's value can be extended to identify effective training protocols and to standardize best practices.
Three developing scenarios, in particular, are calling for an intensive effort to leverage actionable data in the operating room -- and they are only increasing in urgency.
The need and the benefits of receiving actionable data in the operating room are clear. Less so may be how to actually access this data. In brief, acquiring actionable data depends on aggregating both structured and unstructured perioperative data, plus smart integration of key systems and devices (including the EHR for MIPS reporting). Physician leadership and championship also are essential. After all, it is physicians who play the most prominent and certainly most direct role in improving quality. Actionable data can significantly advance their efforts.
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Source: Health IT Outcomes (View full article)
Posted by Dan Corcoran on December 15, 2017 06:31 AM
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