First module in new patient safety software suite enables early detection of potential harm to individual patients.
| SALT LAKE CITY, July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Catalyst today launched the Patient Safety Monitor™ Suite: Surveillance Module, the industry’s first comprehensive patient safety application to use predictive and text analytics combined with concurrent clinician review of data to monitor, detect, predict and prevent threats to patient safety before harm can occur. Tens of thousands of patients die every year in US hospitals due to avoidable errors, according to numerous studies. The Journal of Patient Safety reports that up to 5 million patients per year suffer an avoidable, non-lethal harm event. The new Surveillance Module, built on the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™), reflects the company’s zealous commitment to improving the safety of America’s hospitals. Health Catalyst already has deep experience in improving patient safety in health systems across the country. The technology behind the new Patient Safety Monitor Suite takes the company’s existing capabilities to a new level of unmatched industry leadership. To further support hospitals’ patient safety initiatives, Health Catalyst has also applied for certification as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), on behalf of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Once listed, the Health Catalyst PSO will create a secure and safe environment where clients can collect and analyze patient safety events to learn and improve, free from fear of litigation. Edward Ewen, MD, FACP, director of clinical data and analytics for Christiana Care Health System, commented on Christiana Care’s adoption of the new solution: “Christiana Care is fully committed to the journey to zero harm, but we realize that we will never get any closer than we are today if we stay rooted in old processes and technology. To reach zero harm will require a fundamental change in how we approach the problem. We will need to rapidly identify and respond to potential system weakness as they develop and ultimately anticipate harm before it manifests. We believe the Surveillance Module from Health Catalyst has the potential to take us to this next level, to prevent harm rather than only responding to it.” Limitations of Current Patient Safety Efforts Today’s standard approach of manual reporting of hospital safety events reportedly finds less than 5 percent of all-cause harm. This limited approach, based on data that is at least 30 days old, also requires extensive time and resources for data extraction, aggregation, and reporting, resulting in limited root-cause analyses. Attempts to resolve some of these issues and accelerate patient safety initiatives using an electronic health record (EHR) have been stymied by the technological limitations of EHR software and databases, which provide limited surveillance and embedded AI capabilities. Moreover, because EHRs are considered “discoverable” in litigation, the legal protection afforded by the PSO framework does not apply to them. Because of these limitations, many organizations have adopted patient safety point solutions that focus on specific harms such as falls and hospital-acquired infections. But these, too, miss the mark by failing to facilitate whole-person patient safety and to predict all-cause harm. Empowering Patient Safety Efforts with Timely, Robust Data The Surveillance Module quickly identifies patterns of harm and proposes strategies to eliminate patient safety risks and hazards for current and future patients. This potent combination of predictive analytics, text analytics and near real-time data from multiple sources enables the Patient Safety Monitor Suite to predict harm events and trigger a response while the patient is still in the hospital. “Every healthcare organization wants to do the right thing for patient safety, but they currently don’t have the quantitative and AI-enabled real-time data to help them identify a rising patient safety risk,” said Dale Sanders, President of Technology at Health Catalyst. “By the time they know, it’s quite often too late for the patient. And it’s important to note that these safety and harmful events have a demoralizing impact on clinicians, too. The circle of impact goes beyond the patient, to the clinician, which is one reason that physician burnout and suicide rates are as high as they are.” Sanders added, “I’m grateful that we have the expertise of Stan Pestotnik to address this critical issue in healthcare. Stan is well-known for his patient safety work at Intermountain Healthcare and as the co-founder and former CEO of TheraDoc. Now at Health Catalyst he has a platform in our data operating system to build something that he’s always wanted to build, and that the industry has been waiting for. Likewise, I’m grateful for the advice and support of our strategic advisors in patient safety. We have the best brains in the world on this topic, enabled by a very unique technological capability in our DOS platform.” Professional Services Full Patient Safety Suite Roadmap In late 2018, the Surveillance Module will leverage additional AI and machine learning capabilities to learn from patterns of harm, significantly improving its ability to propose strategies to eliminate patient safety risks and hazards for current and future patients. To learn more about the Patient Safety Monitor Suite: Surveillance Module, schedule a demo, or download a datasheet, visit www.healthcatalyst.com/product/patient-safety-monitor-surveillance/. About Health Catalyst Media Contact:
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