Emerging
Health Solutions dynamically reflects and intelligently
interacts with clinical practice
The Emerging Health Solutions CIS has been engineered in
ways that make it possible for the application to dynamically
reflect clinical practice. The application places the control
over the way it reflects practice in the hands of the team
of clinicians that use Emerging Health Solutions.
The primary way that practice is
reflected in Emerging Health Solutions is in the
Emerging Health Solutions Care Guides. In Emerging
Health Solutions a Care Guide is in effect a cascade
of events, activities and interventions that the
clinical team expect the patient to progress through
during a given episode of care. The clinical team
exercises complete control over which events, activities
and interventions are included in the Care Guide
and over the order that they appear in any given
care guide.
The allocation of a Care Guide to an episode of care for
a patient is determined by the principle focus of care
during that episode. Importantly, in the case of co-morbidity
two or more Care Guides are dynamically and intelligently
merged to create a unique Care Guide for that episode.
The merging process eliminates duplication of activities
and interventions and places the combined activities and
interventions in the correct order. In addition, for any
given episode, the allocated Care Guide is further customised
buy the automatic addition of activities and interventions
that become relevant because one or more clinical risks
are identified during a clinical risk assessment process.
As a result, in any given episode
of care, the Care Guide used reflects the practice
of the clinical team and the idiosyncratic clinical
circumstances of the patient during that episode
of care.
In the care delivery process, clinicians make professional
judgements based on specific information about the clinical
status of the patient. Controlling what information is
collected and how it’s collected is critical to the
clinician. Over the years a great variety of data collection
tools or instruments have been developed by clinicians
in all specialties and sub-specialties that are either
used routinely or in very specific circumstances. How and
when these are used has always raised issues about access,
management of the information and correlation with other
patient data.
The Emerging Health Solutions CIS
provides the facility for clinicians to create
Clinical Questionnaires that can encompass any
of their existing data collection tools or instruments.
These can be used routinely, in specific cases
or for specific periods – for example, during
the period of a clinical research project. The
design and creation of each questionnaire is completed
by the appropriate clinician. All questionnaires
are embedded in the patient’s electronic
medical record. The information captured can be
viewed in isolation or in conjunction with any
or all the information in the patient’s electronic
medical record. This clinician managed facility
provides another level of direct control over the
way Emerging Health Solutions dynamically reflects
the practice of the clinical team.
The clinical team has another level of control over the way
Emerging Health Solutions both reflects and facilitates
their practice through the direct access they have to the
built-in rules engine within Emerging Health Solutions.
The built-in rules engine makes it possible for clinicians
to create any number of validation rules and determine
when and how those rules apply and determine the consequences
for the care delivery process.
Together, the Care Guides,
Clinical Questionnaires and Validation Rules,
provide any clinical team an unprecedented level
of control over the way Emerging Health Solutions
dynamically reflects and facilitates their practice.
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