21st century medicine — both the successes and the failures — will be determined by how well we can leverage the electronic health record. Never before have we had a data source this valuable, this large, or this hard to move.
The knowledge is in the record. Reaching it is the problem.
Healthcare went through a revolution over the last decade to address new requirements for treatment, insurance, collaborative care, and healthy lifestyles. The way health data is created and stored sits at the center of all of it — and that body of information grows at an exponential rate.
The potential knowledge that can be mined from it is immeasurable. But unlocking it requires technology that can capture the data, share it across platforms, correlate it with other information, and integrate it into many different business processes. Most organizations have the first capability and not the other three.
Six capabilities that tend to be owned by six different teams — and that all depend on the same underlying ability to move health data reliably.
Connect systems that were never designed to talk to each other, without rebuilding either one.
Documentation delays are cash-flow delays. Faster movement of records compresses the gap between care delivered and revenue collected.
Release-of-information volume keeps climbing. Handle it without pulling staff off patient care.
A consistent path for data movement is easier to secure — and easier to prove you secured — than a dozen ad hoc workarounds.
Aggregated, structured records are the precondition for any meaningful analysis. You can't mine what you can't assemble.
Move information between platforms so the clinician seeing the patient has what the last clinician recorded.
Different systems, different formats, different owners — but the same requirement: the right record in the right hands at the moment a decision gets made.
GSGS has been developing technology and skills over decades to meet this opportunity.
Go Simple. Go Smart.