The complexity and compliance of healthcare innovation are no secret. When it comes to driving healthcare innovation, complexity is the enemy of execution. However, compliance with appropriately involving providers in the innovation is paramount to success and adoption. Not leading providers to decisions that are unjustified and unsupported is crucial. We see this in clinical documentation improvement where some solutions cannot meet the customization needs of the hospital system with their one-size fits all approach to queries.
When it comes to executing at scale, there are three S’s every health system ought to consider: simplify, standardize, and secure.
Simplify
Don’t look to automate right away. First, take a look at the entire process and see where things can be simplified. This is especially true in hospital mergers where various clinical and administrative groups are doing the same job but with different legacy processes.
Standardize
Look to create repeatable processes across a system. Minimize mistakes and create effective opportunities for scaling across an enterprise. Mundane, highly repetitive tasks which don’t require critical thinking skills to look for cases of common documentation deficiencies can be automated with the computer.
Secure
In healthcare, security is paramount—especially when it comes to applications being based outside of the EMR. Responsibly analyzing patient data requires an effective method of leveraging the secure cloud with the power of pattern recognition on large amounts of clinical notes, pathology reports, imaging studies, lab test results, vitals, and medications. And then returning that insight to the EHR system so that adoption of the recommendations can take place within workflow and maintain a single source of truth.
Since 2011 HITEKS provides clinical tools for physicians with point-of-care suggestions at their fingertips that happen to be embedded inside the leading EHR, Epic, UI—they don’t take coding tools to retrofit them as clinical tools. Learn more about how HITEKS can reduce physician burden, enable workflow efficiency, enhance compliance with coding practices and improve patient outcomes.