Atlantic Health System Builds a Broader Definition of Clinical Intelligence

Convincing clinicians they need to do a better job isn’t the easiest task. James Barr, MD, had his epiphany when he looked at his own delivery of care about 20 years ago, and wasn’t pleased with his level of consistency delivering evidence-based medicine. He’s out to change that for the 5,000 doctors who practice at Atlantic Health System, especially as more patients are being treated through its accountable care organizations. Data from different sources – external to the organization and its Epic electronic health records system – provide a full picture of patients and their needs, he says. Pulling these different sources of intelligence into a cloud-based environment is the vision for the system, enabling clinicians to break down traditional silos of data. The result will be to create analytics that is both predictive and prescriptive – heading off expensive interventions by meeting the ongoing care needs of patients. In this episode of healthsystemCIO’s Partner Perspective Series, Barr talks with Editor-in-Chief Anthony Guerra about these issues, and much more. Source: Atlantic Health System Builds a Broader Definition of Clinical Intelligence on healthsystemcio.com - Interviews & Webinars with Health System IT Leaders