Our software actually matters: CareEvolution's Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform creates better patient outcomes.
An instance of CareEvolution's exchange ingests clinical data from a wide variety of sources - including claims, admissions, lab results etc. - and programmatically reconciles that data to a single person - even in the face of disparate patient identifiers, SSNs, and demographics. The platform also supplies software services to consume, modify, append to, and aggregate that data in all sorts of interesting use cases.
An example of one of the problems we solve: often, patients are asked to supply their clinical history, on printouts, to their caregivers. Often - especially in the case of chronic conditions - this care is managed across multiple hospitals, clinics, and practices. Our platform allows caregivers participating in the exchange (and, for that matter, patients themselves) to access their patients' complete medical history across all institutions participating in the exchange.
At the other end of the problem continuum: too often - in some cases daily - a phenomenon called Never Events (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_events) occurs. One example of a frequently-occurring Never Event is when a certain type of catheter is left in a patient for too long, in which case the risk of catheter-borne infection increases tremendously. If such an infection materializes, insurers will rightly refuse to reimburse the hospital in these cases - since it's the hospital's fault - so the hospital is out-of-pocket for that expense, often to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars per patient. It is therefore in the direct financial interest of the hospital to identify which patients are at risk for a Never Event, and to take corrective action on those patients. In virtually all cases, the financial story aligns perfectly with the mission of creating better patient outcomes. CareEvolution has helped to solve this problem by leveraging our data drivers, record linker, terminology management system, prospective analytics systems, and full-featured alerting system. The directed commingling of all sorts of interesting data is implicated - labs, orders, nurse notes, financials, and more - to make this solution happen.
There are many other use cases besides these two... in short, any opportunity in which we can leverage data across platforms to create better patient outcomes is the business that we want to be in, and the business that we find ourselves in.
We are looking for good software people to help us solve these problems. Common themes include the expansion of our platform, the setting up of new deployments and the care and feeding of existing deployments, the technical integration with 3rd-party clinical data sources, and the development of applications atop our platform that use the data in creative and productive ways.
But we're not going to tell you what to do - that's just not how we do things here. You're going to come and tell us what you want to do - what NEEDS to be done and why it's important - and then we're going to build something cool.
Visit http://letsfixhealthcare.com to learn more - or contact us - and we'll better explain what CareEvolution is all about.