Development of a national electronic health record system for a healthcare management company in the US

Health benefits management company required technology to provide life saving, value-added services to health care providers.

Challenge

Large percent of all hospitalizations were the result of taking a medication exactly the way the physician prescribed it. This is because the prescribing physician was unaware of underlying conflicts with other medications, diseases or conditions of their patients.

Solutions

• iGlades developed an integrated medical claim system to store the complete health record of a person, containing all health care data including all clinical and administrative information including laboratory test results, and pharmaceutical data it collected from its clients.
• iGlades developed an integrated application for to interface data between various applications and health care providers to create a central system for business intelligence platform to get critical information to health care providers.
• Patient centric information is designed to provide physicians of patients current medications, monitor potentially dangerous situations, and enables health care organizations to conduct both medical and business research.

Benefits

• A central repository of disease and treatment information provides data to companies and helps pharmaceutical companies to forecast trends more accurately and make better marketing decisions.
• Centralizing and offering access to complex patient and pharmacy data saves lives by proactively identifying problematic prescribing patterns and helping to prevent dangerous situations.
• Management company provides health care providers central hub for conducting valuable research on drugs and disease.
• Monitoring patient treatments and outcomes yields strategic insight for further research.

Technologies used:

• Environment: Java, Oracle