{"id":301,"date":"2014-09-18T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a3.caaat.pro\/?p=301"},"modified":"2022-02-03T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:39:29","slug":"ambient-clinical-analytics-helps-reduce-medical-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambientclinical.com\/2014\/09\/18\/ambient-clinical-analytics-helps-reduce-medical-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambient Clinical Analytics helps reduce medical errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The software startup&#8217;s AWARE technology neatly displays information needed by physicians performing acute care\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>In emergency departments, operating rooms, and intensive care units, numerous difficulties threaten to overwhelm physicians and nurses. Badly presented information should not be among them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That\u2019s the premise of Rochester-based <a href=\"https:\/\/ambientclinical.com\/\">Ambient Clinical Analytics<\/a>, a startup receiving investments from both venture capitalists and the Mayo Clinic. Founded in May 2013, its cloud-based software presents patient information bed-side and in real time to help physicians and nurses make better decisions \u2014 and fewer mistakes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The company licenses technology from the Mayo Clinic, which, along with Rock Health and The Social + Capital Partnership, has provided it with more than $1 million in seed funding.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cA lot of money is being invested into healthcare IT right now,\u201d notes CEO Al Berning, who has 20-plus years of experience in the sector. \u201cThis was a bonus for us since venture capitalists want to invest in this space if they find a product they like.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Among the company\u2019s offerings is AWARE (Ambient Warning and Response Evaluation), which addresses the issue of information overload among physicians performing acute care. The software platform attracted $16 million from the Health Care Innovation Awards, presented by the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Innovation to fund organizations implementing the \u201cmost compelling new ideas to deliver better health, improved care, and lower costs.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The summary for Ambient\u2019s award notes that 27 percent of Medicare beneficiaries face preventable treatment errors due to \u201cinformation overload among ICU providers.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Such errors affect not only patients, but also care providers, who must deal with the emotional and professional aftermath of making sometimes fatal mistakes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The AWARE platform is a strong combination of big data and analytics. Using a series of algorithms, it pulls data from various electronic medical records, sorts it, and presents the information that\u2019s most pertinent to a patient\u2019s care.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dr. John M. Litell, a physician in emergency and critical care medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, used the system and was quoted later on the experience by the Mayo Clinic: \u201cThe amount of data behind AWARE is vast, but unlike any other system I\u2019ve used, AWARE shows me what I need to see, at the point of care, organized in the way I think. As a result, I can approach patients in a more standardized and organized fashion.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dr. Brian Pickering, a Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist and consultant in the critical care division, has been heavily involved in developing and testing AWARE, drawing upon his extensive experience in evaluating systems of health care delivery. Interviewed by the Society of Critical Medicine, he noted that the standard electronic medical record displays an estimated average of 2,000 data pieces per patient per day, spread across multiple screens. \u201cThis is an overwhelming issue in the ICU \u2014 integrating data, managing information, and processes of care,\u201d he noted. \u201cIf you can\u2019t get to the answer you need in one or two steps, you are likely to be interrupted, increasing the possibility of errors.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His company isn\u2019t alone in addressing the issue, but Berning believes AWARE stands out for several reasons, including its ability to smartly integrate data from many sources. That\u2019s no easy feat, of course: Despite standardization efforts, the world of electronic medical records continuously changes, posing significant challenges.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>AWARE also excels, Berning says, because of its ability to prioritize information to better utilize physician time, which in turn helps to reduce medical errors.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Looking ahead, he anticipates getting approval of AWARE and marketing it to large hospitals before year\u2019s end. In the long term, he hopes to make it scalable so that smaller hospitals can afford it, as well. (Ambient\u2019s business model is supported by software license fees, SaaS, cloud, and system integration revenue.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Another of the company\u2019s products, the Mayo Clinic YES Board, pulls data from various sources to provide care teams with real-time situational awareness of their departments. On various screens, staff can get a multi-patient view, see the big picture on \u201cpatient flow,\u201d and check the status of patients, facilities, and personnel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This can be particularly helpful in an emergency department, where traditionally it\u2019s difficult to track real-time progress as situations change, and data on a patient comes in from multiple sources.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By allowing more time to be spent on actual care (as opposed to information review), the company\u2019s offerings promise to drive down costs, reduce mistakes, and improve results and efficiency.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ambient has another advantage up its sleeve: being based in Rochester and affiliated with the Mayo Clinic.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIn addition to the strong medical partnerships in the city, there is also a great tech base that has helped us launch a successful company,\u201d Berning says. \u201cRochester is a great place to launch this type of company.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Originally posted by Minnesota Business Magazine. <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotabusiness.com\/case-clarity-3\">Read Original Article.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The software startup&#8217;s AWARE technology neatly displays information needed by physicians performing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambient"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ambient Clinical Analytics helps reduce medical errors - Ambient<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The software startup&#039;s AWARE technology neatly displays information needed by physicians performing acute care\u00a0 In emergency departments, operating rooms, and intensive care units, numerous difficulties threaten to overwhelm physicians and nurses. 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