Physician practice uses BI tools to improve care

Slide show: Innovative health care (click on image to enlarge and complete slide show) when discussions focus on providers of health care by sophisticated analysis of the clinical, academic medical centres with pockets deep research usually come to mind. These examples include clinical Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, and other prestigious suppliers, health care that have ambitious projects related to personalized medicine and other care initiatives.

But as more practical physician through the United States put in place e-medical record systems to collect and manage their information on patients, these small organizations can also tap into the power of analytical tools to glean understanding of care they provide to their patients.

It is something which is already going South-East of the Texas Medical Associates, or SETMA. Through the use of the business intelligence and analysis tools with data from medical records of thousands of patients the practice of the physician of average size in Beaumont, Texas is improved treatment programs, reducing returns from the hospital, development of preventive care programs and boost staff productivity.

SETMA, with 29 in three places primary care physicians, deployed a NextGen EMR in 1998, which, at the time, required much personalization by SETMA since there were a few models preconfigured, said CEO Dr. James Holly practice of. But two years ago SETMA started using IBM Cognos business intelligence tools to analyze data in a data repository designed to prevent the data extracted from these patient records.

Tools allow SETMA to run a real time analysis on trends in the health and the treatment of patients, including those with chronic diseases such as diabetes and verify the performance of clinicians SETMA, to ensure that they provide standards based on evidence of care to both adhering to best practices and other sets of measurement of quality from multiple sources. These quality measures include the data of the effectiveness of health care and Information Set (HEDIS) of the National Committee for Quality Assurance; the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid physician quality Reporting Initiative and also marks the National Forum of quality care.

The analysis has helped SETMA identify "interruptions of care" that some patients feel, allowing practice to act quickly on the resolution of these issues, even to the extent remind diabetics around the holiday season they need to be extra diligent exercise, glucose test and diet, as they you will participate at the end of the celebration of the year, said Holly.

"Healthcare is behind the times in the use of BI," Holley said. "But everything can do the BI in other industries, it is this that we in health care, leverage points to improve care," said Holly.

SETMA uses analysis tools "eliminate the ethnic disparity in care", said Holly.

"How do you know the differences until you have the possibility to ask questions," he said. The analysis provides SETMA to identify problems that can play the factors in results for patients, as in situations where patients need to be readmitted to the hospital shortly after his release.

According to a study of 2010 by the University of California, San Francisco, almost one in five patients in Medicare to the United States have a readmission not provided at the hospital within 30 days of its release.

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