EHR vendor Cerner Corporation and 3M Health Information Systems have partnered to improve population health management, a press release says.
Through the 3M Patient-Focused Episodes Software and Cerner’s HealtheIntent, users will be able to access a comprehensive overview of patient data, episode of care information, and cost and resource analyses.
HealtheIntent will use the 3M software to aggregate patient data cross care sites and episodes of care to represent an overview of the patient condition, helping providers to target individual courses of care. Through this approach, Cerner leaders hope to improve user focus on patient-centered healthcare.
“Cerner continues to advance the industry with innovations in population health management. The 3M software further expands the breadth of our population health management offerings to give our clients solutions and content they can use to more effectively manage health and care as well as costs,” said Dr. Bharat Sutariya, vice president and CMO at Cerner.
The 3M technology will gather data points from numerous care sites, incorporating various conditions to create a vast infrastructure of patient data. These data stores will support bundled payments, provider cost compare, disease classifications.
According to JaeLynn Williams, president of 3M Health Information Systems, this is simply the next step in healthcare information technology.
“An episode-based payment system that is designed around the patient is the next logical step in the evolution of health care payment systems,” Williams said.
“By creating a defined time period, individual clinicians work as a unified team toward a single, clearly stated goal to carry each patient across the episode finish line as efficiently and excellently as possible.”
Date: August 31, 2016