A Single Best Record from All Systems Made Useful and Usable
During the last two decades Health Economies have invested heavily in automating the inpatient operations of their organizations with acute clinical systems. More recently, many have focused increasingly on helping providers access this data as well as initiating efforts to improve their clinical practice documentation. But even with all these applications theoretically interoperating, Health Economy executives are often daunted by too many systems delivering too little integrated value. The expected benefits of enhanced market share, improved quality and other competitive advantages get lost in the fragmentation of the data: across visits, across systems, across the community. Somehow the whole seems to be less than the sum of the parts – and in many ways, fragmentation of data becomes fragmentation of care.
The Solution to Fragmentation
Introducing the CentriHealth Individual Health Record (IHR) – a solution to fragmentation and the related problem of too much data too poorly understood. The IHR is a solution that bridges the gap between ambulatory and acute environments and brings together fragmented data that is locked up in a multitude of silos. In the process of bringing all data from all systems (administrative, financial, and clinical) together, the information is understood and duplicate and overlapping transactions are resolved. This patent-pending ability to create a single individual-centered place where all patient-related data is understood is revolutionary. The strategy for the next generation must allow Health Economies to create a collaborative care environment by bringing together the key clinical data from all of their systems (and external systems to which they have access) into a single health record centered on each individual but available to every stakeholder in the most useful form..................................
Collaboration Among Stakeholders
The IHR is the single platform that enables a Health Economy to deliver to its providers, employees and patients personalized care coaching, relevant content and disease management solutions in a framework that exceeds the CMS ‘Meaningful Use’ criteria while enhancing outcomes and reducing costs. By allowing all participants involved in a patient's care to access and enter information in a secure record containing a single, unified and understood view of everything known about the patient, the IHR fosters greater collaboration among all stakeholders involved in a patient's care, empowers providers to deliver higher quality care, and allows individuals to be fully engaged in the process. Providers and patients become more satisfied and thus more aligned with the Health Economy, with the attendant marketplace advantages. And the benefits to the health and health efficacy of the community become increasingly obvious as the IHR’s patient-oriented records become the standard of care.
"CentriHealth is a key partner for Kettering Health Network (KHN), instrumental in providing a new infrastructure that enables us to better meet the information needs of our providers, employees and patients.The CentriHealth IHR demonstrably drives patient behavior change at scale, resulting in better outcomes, better compliance, and appreciably reduced costs and cost trends."
Frank A Perez
President and CEO
Kettering Health Network
