The U.S. healthcare industry can cut $3.6 trillion in waste over 10 years. Recommended changes include giving patients a medical "home" to better coordinate care, encouraging efficiency and healthier behavior. Using new cloud services that apply deep analytics to electronic medical records and patient information, doctors can deliver more complete and accurate decisions about patient care, reducing medical mistakes and unnecessary, costly treatments.
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Picture Story: How Smarter Healthcare Works
Date added: 06 Aug 2010
Healthcare is a complex system with many moving parts, including vast networks of doctors, patients, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, insurers, medical equipment ... and the millions of pieces of data, images, prescriptions, documents, and other information that get exchanged every day. The ultimate goal is a fully connected, coordinated and integrated healthcare system where everything is focused on the patient!
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Dr. Kenneth Roth and Dr. John Jenrette of Sharp Community Medical Group
Date added: 06 Aug 2010
Dr. Kenneth Roth and Dr. John Jenrette of Sharp Community Medical Group in San Diego examine a patient file. The medical group announced today it is working with IBM and ActiveHealth Management to deploy the Solution for Collaborative Care. The new cloud computing and clinical decision support solution gives physicians and patients access to the information they need to improve the overall quality of care, without the need to invest in new infrastructure.
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Dr. Kenneth Roth of Sharp Community Medical Group in San Diego
Date added: 06 Aug 2010
Dr. Kenneth Roth of Sharp Community Medical Group in San Diego is part of a team of doctors working with IBM and ActiveHealth Management to deploy the Solution for Collaborative Care that will help move away from paper-based systems and automatically analyze patient data to give doctors actionable decision support on their desktop – highlighting gaps in care, clinical research or potential drug interactions.
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Active CareTeam Registry
Date added: 04 Aug 2010
Active CareTeamSM enables clinicians to see at a glance how patients in their practice are performing against key chronic disease areas. With it, they can focus on the patients in the highest risk categories and take steps to ensure plans are in place to improve the health outcomes for those patients.
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Active CareTeam Patient Dashboard
Date added: 04 Aug 2010
Active CareTeamSM gives clinicians a summary view of the patient’s health interactions by pulling data from multiple sources, not just those included in the electronic medical record. Clinicians can see the evidence-based medical alerts that need immediate attention and the risk status of a patient relative to the key quality and performance measures.
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