Data interoperability represents one of the most complex challenges facing the Healthcare industry today. The promise of improved efficiencies, quality and performance through information systems automation of Healthcare practices remains elusive despite decades of effort and billions of dollars invested. Improvement in Healthcare outcomes through systems automation has now become one of the primary elements of Healthcare reform at the national level. $20 Billion dollars of this year’s Stimulus package was dedicated to widespread adoption and implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology. As more Healthcare information systems are adopted, the expectations for data exchange and interoperability increase. Meeting those rising expectations is the goal of Intelligent Healthcare...

The value proposition for Intelligent Healthcare encompasses a number of premises, which when combined act to redefine the nature of care and the nature of how we measure both quality and performance. As we’ve mentioned before, Healthcare is very much about problem resolution. Problems are seldom limited to single variable scenarios and when viewed collectively across conditions and even patient populations become exponentially more complex. One of the primary benefits of Intelligent Healthcare is that it views problems in their proper context, including taking into account the nature of inter-relationships between problems and how those relationships impact care or outcomes. 

The anticipated benefits associated with adoption of an Intelligent Healthcare paradigm include but are not limited to the following:

•    Improved Continuity of Care (patient-level).
•    Improved Patient care outcomes along a wide spectrum of quality metrics.
•    Improved Biosurveillance or Trend Awareness.
•    Improved Coordination of Care at group or regional level (or both).
•    Improved Bio-Event Management.
•    Improvement in Healthcare cost containment.
•    Reduced development cycles for Healthcare IT solutions.
•    Improved Healthcare IT Project Success ratios. 
•    Reduction in Integration costs across Healthcare IT solutions.
•    Improved or emerging support for universal information exchange.