Public Health Disease Surveillance and Management
Panorama is the new, and industry leading, Pan-Canadian Communicable Disease Surveillance and Management System.
This feature rich and integrated system is being developed to provide authorized health care professionals throughout Canada with the ability to collect, share and analyse a wide range of information that is critical for managing public health emergencies. Solution components include communicable disease case management, outbreak management, immunization management, materials management as well as other features.
Drug Information Systems
IBM's Pharmaceutical Information Network is an industry-leading provincial Drug Information System, and a Canada Health Infoway preferred solution.
PIN has been successfully implemented in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec. The PIN solution can visibly provide accurate medication profiles, enable legible prescriptions, and offer decision support tools at the point of care.
Electronic Health Records
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) give authorized healthcare providers access to patient health information to support clinical decision-making.
A network of interoperable EHR solutions — one that integrates information across multiple points of service and multiple caregivers — is a very complex task requiring broad skills across numerous technology components. IBM is working with healthcare organizations in many parts of the world — including Canada, Denmark, and the US — to build and deploy interoperable EHRs with a significant focus on privacy and security.
Medical Imaging
IBM works with leading ISVs to provide Medical Imaging infrastructure and services to store, manage, distribute and view patient images and reports in digital format across the Healthcare Enterprise.
IBM’s diagnostic imaging solutions can allow clinicians to improve quality of care through prompt retrieval of images. The high-availability configurations can allow for the reduction of repeat and reject examinations; improve turnaround in reporting; increase efficiency through the elimination of manual processes in the film environment; and support disaster tolerance.
IBM Emerging Technologies
IBM’s emerging technology solutions provide clinical information anytime and anyplace within the healthcare campus.
Mobile clinical applications, asset tracking, smart cards, single sign on and wireless communications solutions are just a few technologies that are driving improved patient safety and reduced costs. The emerging technologies being implemented by many providers today include:
- Vocera, mobile, hands-free communications;
- Patient and asset location tracking through RFID;
- ConnexALL, alert management and Integration with nurse call;
- Healthcare Kiosks for self registration, interviewing, and way finding; plus
- Clinical bedside terminals for access to patient data.
Health Analytics
Data that resides in disparate, clinical and business systems needs to be available to decision makers to solve problems in near real-time. Learn about IBM’s Enterprise Health Analytics solutions.
IBM’s Enterprise Health Analytics solutions allow organizations to plan, understand, and manage financial and operational performance data to extract value from business information—no matter where it is stored. Elements of the solution include:
- Health System Performance Measurement
- Integrated Health Data Warehouse
- Business Intelligence and DiabetesCubes
- Information-Based Transformation (879KB)
- Transformation Services (380KB)
- Health Analytics Roadmap (193KB)
Patient and Clinical Portals
Portals are becoming a key enabler for change – whether providing collaboration for staff and physicians or allowing for easy registration and scheduling to reduce wait times.
IBM is a global leader in enabling clinical portals to provide a single interface that allows for personalized interaction with healthcare applications, content, processes and people. The Ottawa Hospital, Duke Medical, the Mayo Clinic, Denmark National Healthcare, and Trillium Health are all leveraging Portals to:
- Increase patient quality and safety by providing consistent and timely access to information through multiple channels;
- Manage chronic disease through patient and provider score cards and compliance indicators;
- Provide operational efficiency by promoting on-line self-service and patient self-care; and
- Increase patient satisfaction through an on-line experience.
Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
Chronic Disease Management is an approach to avoiding complications and acute episodes by managing the patient to clinical guidelines, sharing information on status and interventions with the care team, and supporting the patient in healthy behaviours.
IBM's CDM Toolkit is being used by physicians in BC, SK and MB. This web application supports family practice physicians in managing all their CD patients to clinical guidelines, making it easy for physicians to:
- Know which patients have diabetes, CHF, arthritis, etc, as well as which patients have multiple CD’s (co-morbidities)
- Know which patients require tests, check-ups or educational checkpoint visits, based on clinical guidelines in that province or region
- Pro-actively call patients in for scheduled educational / preventative visits
- Generate reports on clinical guideline compliance within their roster, and across other physician’s rosters.
To learn more about how the CDM Toolkit is being used in British Columbia, please view the 'Adopting the CDM Toolkit' Practice Guide document below, created for the BC Ministry of Health by Impact BC, a not-for-profit organization specifically established to work across BC's health system to support service improvement'
Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)
IBM has implemented an IHE Compliant XDS Registry, Repository, and ATNA Repository to support the exchange of critical medical information.
IBM has developed an HL7 2.x to XDS Adapter, an HL7 CDA to XDS Adapter, and Legacy PACS adapters to better enable sharing of medical information from all sources.
For Information about ongoing Research at IBM Related to IHE please see: www.haifa.ibm.com/projects/software/xds
To see IBM and other's work on Open Sources Tools to help lower the barriers to XDS Implementations, please see: iheprofiles.projects.openhealthtools.org
Clinical Information Solutions
IBM’s Clinical Information Solutions (CIS) support clinical systems that acquire, share, store and manage clinician workflow and patient-centered information across the Healthcare Provider ecosystem. At the cornerstone of this is IBM’s proven methodology for clinical transformation – PROLINK – and our globally recognized Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Healthcare.
