Regenstrief Institute

<p>Physician satisfaction with electronic health systems is at an all-time low, and a key contributor to this is a sense that the physician spends more time sitting in front of her computer than she does talking face-to-face with her patients. Our innovation amplifies the signal over the noise in reviewing a patient&#39;s medical history and past results, allowing the physician to have more time with the patient, and improving the odds of seeing that test result in the history that changes the clinical workup or clinches the diagnosis.</p>

<p>Hospital systems are constantly challenged to balance quality of care, patient safety, patient and clinician satisfaction, and the responsible use of resources. Our innovation leverages existing patient data to give clinicians in a healthcare institution more useful data in a shorter amount of time to allow them to make more informed decisions about appropriate patient care. It saves clinician time and effort, and thus makes healthcare institutions more efficient. In addition, it reduces the waste of resources on repeat or unwarranted testing; &nbsp;mitigates unnecessary admissions that stem from lack of data; improves provider satisfaction; and, most importantly, improves patient safety by enabling access to a more complete medical history.</p>

<p>MedStartr and its partners are focused on healthcare, and our innovation offers the opportunity is to support a truly transformational approach to healthcare interoperability. While healthcare interoperability has been a focus of the healthcare system for a long time, we have not mastered its challenges. Our implementation of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability standard to &quot;knit together&quot; granular information from multiple health IT systems in order to support clinical care and workflow in a provider-centric way offers a truly new approach for how physicians work. Plus, it has the potential to improve information access across the spectrum of healthcare.</p>