September - 20198In My OpinionIMPROVING CARE THROUGH INNOVATIONAcross the nation, hospitals and health systems have invested billions in their electronic medical records. Now is the time to make these systems return the investment by accessing their data and making patient care more efficient and safer for everyone.Big data is emerging as a key tool in how we personalize care for patients and improve operational efficiencies for clinicians. As exciting as this time is for health care IT innovators, we face challenges in determining how to inform health care providers on ways to use the volume of data we're getting from multiple sources­and identifying the infrastructure to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning effectively.UCHealth is focused on optimizing how we use big data to achieve better outcomes and improve patient experience, while making information easy to use in clinical workflows and driving down costs.Partnering with RxRevuSince September, UCHealth, a nationally recognized health care system based in Colorado, has been partnering with digital health company RxRevu to help reduce antibiotic resistance and improve patient care. RxRevu provides critical antibiotic information and integrates that data directly into the clinical workflow within our electronic health record system, Epic.The new technology was first implemented at the University of Colorado Hospital Emergency Department, the second busiest emergency facility in the Rocky Mountain region. It is now being introduced at additional UCHealth hospitals and medical departments. Epic uses clinical workflow pathways to direct recommended tests, treatments and escalating levels of medical care. RxRevu's innovative Prescription Decision Support platform, RxCheck, By Steve Hess, CIO, UCHealthis integrated into these pathways to assist physicians throughout the patient's evaluation.UCHealth just last month started deploying RxCheck to provide additional data to physicians at the point of prescribing medications to treat heart failure conditions. This additional prescribing information can increase accuracy, improve patient outcomes and impact the cost of care. Our goals include supporting clinicians in prescribing the best and most current evidence-based medications, improving the patient-provider experience, and generating data to improve future heart failure treatment all while easing the provider interface with the EMR.RxCheck integrates seamlessly into current clinician workflows and leverages patient data, claims, formularies, cost data and protocols to provide providers with real-time clinical decision support. There are 30 or more commonly prescribed medications for heart failure patients, and often, a patient needs a combination of medications to best treat the condition. The RxRevu platform analyzes multiple data fields from the patient's health record, best practice recommendations and cost to help determine the best Steve Hess
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