Addressing Industry Challenges: Quality and Care Improvement |
 Amalga allows us to quickly collect, view, and analyze data of any type, giving us unprecedented insight into the hospital’s performance and greater opportunity to innovate for improved quality.  -
Eric Pifer, M.D., Chief Medical Information Officer, El Camino Hospital
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| The Challenge: | The growing number of hospital quality measures and changes to Medicare reimbursements are placing increasing burden on hospital resources. Retrospective analysis of quality data and the inability to access real-time, enterprisewide clinical data create inefficiencies and unnecessary costs to the system.
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| The Need: | Healthcare enterprises must overcome limitations of IT systems in the process of quality data collection and analytics to enable: | Real-time monitoring of enterprisewide quality performance data to improve quality outcomes at the point of care. User empowerment throughout the hospital with immediate access and insight into quality data without training or IT intervention. Data scalability to prepare for the future as changing regulations and new quality initiatives demand new views and types of data.
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| The Solution:
Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) provides insight about the organization, empowering people to access, view, and use information immediately, thus helping reduce quality improvement cycles and providing an understanding about patient conditions.
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| | Amalga UIS Quality Measures Module gathers fragmented core measure data into a single application in real time. This enables concurrent quality compliance reviews of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), pneumonia (PN), Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), pregnancy (PR), children's asthma (CAC), readmission measures (AMI, HF, and PN) and outpatient measures. Real-time patient identification and scoring capabilities help ensure that providers identify the right core measure patients to complete time-sensitive quality measures. |
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