by Strategic Interests News | Dec 11, 2016 | Consulting, Interoperability
DATOS HEALTH ENTERS INTO U.S. ‘GO-TO-MARKET’ AGREEMENT WITH STRATEGIC INTERESTS
Validated, relevant remote health data and derived insights
eliminate additional work and cost using Datos
DECEMBER 11, 2016, TEL AVIV, Israel – Datos Health, a patient-generated health data (PGHD) management company, has signed a go-to-market agreement with the healthcare consulting firm, Strategic Interests, LLC (SI). This partnership will expedite entry of Datos’s proprietary remote patient management solution within the U.S. healthcare market. Through the use of proprietary algorithms, the Datos platform incorporates patient generated health data (PGHD) and derived insights into the existing clinical workflow. Datos automatically manages and validates relevant data for enhanced clinical decision support to improve patient care on a large scale at a fraction of the cost, thereby eliminating the need for a monitoring call center.
“Datos is one of those exceptional best-in-breed companies, offering clear and immediate benefits to healthcare stakeholders for improved care and enhanced financial performance,” said Al Kinel, President of SI. “Datos’ novel approach to the current remote health data challenge is changing the way that providers care for their remote patients.”
Strategic Interests drives first U.S. pilot for Datos
Leveraging long-standing relationships with healthcare providers and proven experience in bringing new healthcare technologies to commercial success, SI is helping Datos’ initiate their first U.S. pilot at Rochester, NY-based Ridgeview Internal Medicine Group, LLP. Ridgeview’s primary care physicians and care managers can remotely monitor patients suffering from hypertension using the Datos platform to provide clean, validated PGHD and derived insights directly into their existing EMR.
“The U.S. market is significant to us.” said Uri Bettesh, CEO and co-founder of Datos. “To rapidly achieve commerical traction in the U.S., SI offers us a rare combination of sector understanding, a strong, relevant healthcare network and a proven track record of success with healthcare data technology companies. We are very pleased to have SI on board.”
Based on Datos’ current traction in Israel in under 18 months—four pilot programs with leading healthcare providers monitoring diabetes, high blood pressure, long-term and post-acute care—Ridgeview plans to extend Datos monitoring capabilities to other chronic health conditions.
About Datos Health:
Datos Health is an mDigital Health company that is setting a new standard in remote patient care. Datos has developed a proprietary IoT platform to help healthcare organizations improve remote patient care on a large scale at low cost. The Datos platform makes sense of, and more efficiently manages, the limitless amounts of patient generated health data (PGHD) produced from wearables and personal medical devices. Automated management processes combined with integrated in-depth patient insights and expert clinical predictions, help healthcare organizations enhance care while managing higher patient volumes at a fraction of current cost.
Healthcare providers that are interested in a demo of the platform, please contact Datos at info@datos.com.
Visit www.datos.com for more information.
About Strategic Interests:
Strategic Interests (SI) offers advisory and implementation services to help healthcare stakeholders collaborate, improve care and enhance financial performance. As trusted experts in transformation, SI combines vision, deep technological understanding and innovative thinking to each customized, pragmatic client engagement. Using our proven framework, our team of results-oriented, experienced thought-leaders—each with years of experience in various areas of healthcare including management, clinical, analytical, technical, and marketing—delivers on the specific needs of each project, ensuring our clients’ objectives are met and their expectations are exceeded.
Visit www.strategicinterests.com for more information.
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by Strategic Interests News | May 28, 2016 | Electronic Health Records, Interoperability, Telemedicine
Strategic Interests principal specializing in clinical and business transformation, Brett Kinsler, will deliver a webinar in partnership with one of our technology clients, iVEDiX. Leveraging knowledge gained from an SI led study examining transitions of care data gaps, Dr. Kinsler discusses how one patient’s movement stemming from an emergency situation at home, through EMS, into the ED, admission to the hospital, care by the specialist and back to home care can all be positively impacted using a mobile visualization platform.
EHRs and HIEs are constrained in the manner in which they present information, struggle to show a longitudinal view of clinical and psychosocial patient information, and are not optimized for a workflow that engages patients. This negatively impacts outcomes. In this webinar, we focus on how customizable mobile dashboards and an innovative presentation of content from EHRs, HIEs, and a myriad of systems can improve patient care and transition success.
Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2016 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT
Please join us by registering at this link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3687692005145498626
by Brett Kinsler | Apr 13, 2016 | Consulting, Electronic Health Records, HIT Strategy, Interoperability
A fair number of our clients have been asking about FHIR lately so it’s time to fan the flames a bit and shed some light on this developing interoperability standard. FHIR (which is pronounced “fire”) is a methodology that was developed based on the standards from the HL7 organization, a non-profit. It stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. Essentially, FHIR is a universal translation tool that will permit the exchange of clinically-relevant data to be shared securely and more easily. Currently, when data is shared among disparate systems, there are limitations to what can be ingested into the system and often the information is trapped inside documents like PDFs that do not become fully integrated into the patient’s incoming chart.
One of the most interesting developments around FHIR is that many EHR vendors have agreed to support the concept and put efforts into implementation. Several of these vendors include industry leaders such as athenahealth, Cerner and even Epic, a system not particularly well-known to share freely with other EHRs.
It is important to note that FHIR is not yet a mandatory standard and vendors are free to adopt or ignore it at this time. Whether or not it succeeds in the goal of unifying clinical information exchange depends on a number of factors:
Fueling the FHIR:
1. Idealism. True interoperability is the right thing to do — providing a complete clinical picture of the patient improves quality of care and reduces needless time-consuming tasks for the patient, health systems and medical offices.
2. Apps. The market for applications that can be used across any and all EHRs will expand so industry pressures from outside the EHR vendors will help push adoption.
3. Regulatory. Government, regulatory agencies and payors may require FHIR adoption and tie its use to incentive-based payments. Following the money, this will advance the use of the standard.
Mixed Results:
1. Divergence. The ability for users to move more easily from one EHR to another will make some vendors fearful of losing customers while others will jump at the change to migrate new users to their products.
Extinguishing FHIR
1. Time. Changing to new standards across so many vendors is not a quick or easy process. It will probably be several years before there could even be moderately widespread usage. In the meantime, something new or better may emerge which will overshadow the FHIR initiatives.
2. Evolution. FHIR is far from complete and improvements will have to be made. However, if you consider how often apps send updates and companies like Google and Apple improve their APIs, this is to be expected.
3. Fear. Health systems and providers may not be willing to share data as freely as interoperability standards might require. Often, this is out of fear of leakage, or the loss of patients to another system or provider.
Interoperability is not just a technical problem of connecting pipes and watching the information flow. There are change management, financial, and strategic issues at play that must be properly handled. And though the government may step in and force the hand of vendors and providers, eliminating many of the choices, being prepared for multiple eventualities and planning in advance will help payers, providers and vendors position themselves for the future.
Strategic Interests has expertise in past, current and future interoperability standards including strategic planning, implementation and deployment. If you have questions or concerns about FHIR or other interoperability situations, let us help you plan your roadmap for success.
by Brett Kinsler | Sep 13, 2015 | Interoperability
The disconnect in U.S. health care results in higher costs and less favorable outcomes for patients. In the United States, personal health information is largely held within hospitals, physician practices and pharmacies, and typically cannot be shared routinely outside those individual settings. Organizations that permit secure sharing of pertinent information, like Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) are an effective method to ameliorate the situation.
Transfers of care from one provider to another are a common pitfall for gaps in care. When patients move from within and across health care systems, delayed patient care and reduced quality and efficiency of health care occurs without also the proper transfer of information. The exchange of health care data improves provider communication, provides for better coordination of care and transfers, increases patient engagement and lowers overall costs of care. Coordinated efforts of treatment and procedure documentation also provide a higher level of patient safety by decreasing unnecessary duplication of services, such as repeated imaging.
At the present time, there is no universal grid that permits all providers to plug and play their information. Due to security concerns and the difficulty of establishing interoperability standards, health systems that utilize differing EHRs often need assistance making sense of the data, workflows and establishing peer relationships of data. The health care technology industry, in concert with vendors, providers, payors and regulatory agencies, need to embrace present and future efforts to establish universal standards — the safety of our patients is depending on it.
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