Trisotech Telemedicine Webinars Series
presented with Baxter SpA
Telemedicine is the practice of medicine using technology to deliver care at a distance. While telemedicine and its use are not new, widespread adoption beyond simple telephone exchanges has been relatively slow. However, the current pandemic has forced rethinking of how health care is delivered, while, new developments in technology have made remote care more accessible.
In this webinar series we will explore the application of the BPM+ Health set of standards to Telemedicine and the benefits that can be expected. More specifically, we will explore how automation of telemedicine can improve efficiency, improve care, and reduce risk.
Webinar 3: Process Automation in Telemedicine: Reducing risks.
Telecare carries a number of risks, including financial loss and threats to patient safety. While care of a known patient can control many of these risks, certain practices may increase risks. In this webinar we will first demo automation that can alert the provider to warning signs of a serious problem masquerading as a common complaint. A second automation example will look at postoperative outpatient monitoring for early detection of a surgical site infection.
Presented by:
Dr. John Svribely, CMIO Trisotech
Denis Gagne, CEO & CTO Trisotech
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Process Automation in Telemedicine:
Reducing Risks
John Svirbely, MD
Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO),
jsvirbely@Trisotech.com
Denis Gagne
Chief Executive Officer (CEO),
dgagne@Trisotech.com
With the support of
With the participation of
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Abstract
Trisotech Telemedicine Webinars Series
presented with Baxter SpA
Telemedicine is the practice of medicine using technology to deliver care at a distance. While telemedicine and its use are not new,
widespread adoption beyond simple telephone exchanges has been relatively slow. However, the current pandemic has forced
rethinking of how health care is delivered, while, new developments in technology have made remote care more accessible.
In this webinar series we will explore the application of the BPM+ Health set of standards to Telemedicine and the benefits that can
be expected. More specifically, we will explore how automation of telemedicine can improve efficiency, improve care, and reduce
risk.
Webinar 3: Process Automation in Telemedicine: Reducing risks.
Telecare carries a number of risks, including financial loss and threats to patient safety. While care of a known patient can control
many of these risks, certain practices may increase risks. In this webinar we will first demo automation that can alert the provider to
warning signs of a serious problem masquerading as a common complaint. A second automation example will look at postoperative
outpatient monitoring for early detection of a surgical site infection.
Presented by:
Dr. John Svribely, CMIO Trisotech
Denis Gagne, CEO & CTO Trisotech
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TelemedicineSeriesRecap
In Webinar 1 of the series, we discussed Efficiency Improvements in Telemedicine
o Introduced some telemedicine concepts
o Introduced the BPM+ Health open standards
o Presented and demoed a model of Nurse Teletriage of the Ill-Appearing Infant
o Introduced Attended Tasks: Not giving up control for the sake of efficiency
In Webinar 2 of the series, we discussed Patient Care Improvements in Telemedicine
o Introduced some classifications of telemedicine
o Introduced how BPM+ Health complements the exsiting HL7 standards
o Presented and demoed a model of home parenteral nutritional support (TPN)
o Introduced Knowledge Entity Models: Providing disambiguation of terminology using
Vocabularies, Concept Maps and Rules
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Recordings and slides of Webinar 1 and Webinar 2 are available here: https://www.trisotech.com/webinars/
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Telemedicine can reduce financial risks in
value-based care
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• Reducing readmission
• Detecting complications early
• Coaching an unhealthy lifestyle
• Reducing patient dissatisfaction
• Improving quality and performance metrics
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Example 1 – Reducing financial risk with
postoperative home monitoring
A goal at discharge is to avoid
readmission, or to detect a
complication as soon as possible.
Remote monitoring to detect early signs
of infection or other complications.
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Surgery Icon by Luis Prado from the Noun Project
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Reducing malpractice liability while
optimizing outcomes for value-based care
Telecare of a known patient
involves acceptable risks.
What about the patient who is
completely unknown?
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Risk and the De Novo Acute Telemedicine Encounter
Risk may arrive in many ways:
The clinician has never seen the patient before
(and may never see again).
The patient has no relationship with the provider.
Available information may be limited.
The patient’s health risk is unknown.
The clinician only has a short time with the
patient, so needs to do many things quickly.
The clinician may have limited means of follow-
up.
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Mitigationof Risks
Telemedicine risks can be mitigated
by:
Access to good documentation
Good hand-off processes
Detect red flags (early warnings)
Get as much data as possible collated as a
patient summary
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Example 2
Red flags for Dyspepsia
Looking for warning signs that
may identify a common complaint
with a sinister cause.
Collect all available knowledge about a patient
Use automated processes to look for
significant patterns.
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Icon created by Whales Factory from Noun Project
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Patient Summary
A Patient Summary is a standardized set of basic medical data that
includes the most important clinical facts required to ensure safe and
secure healthcare.
The International Patient Summary (IPS) is a minimal and non-
exhaustive Patient Summary, specialty-agnostic, condition-independent,
but readily usable by all clinicians for the unscheduled (cross-border)
care of a patient.
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https://international-patient-summary.net/
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International Patient Summary (IPS)
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https://international-patient-summary.net/
ISO: https://www.iso.org/standard/79491.html
HL7: http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/ips/
IHE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ietJYemBKpQ
An International Patient Summary contains the following
data:
General information about the patient
(e.g. name, birth date, gender)
A medical summary consisting of the most important
clinical patient data
(e.g. allergies, current medical problems, medical implants, or major
surgical procedures during the last six months).
A list of the current medication
including all prescribed medicines that the patient is currently taking.
Information about the Patient Summary itself
e.g. when and by whom the Patient Summary was generated or
updated. This data is also used for protocol and security purposes.
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Setting some BasicTerminology
Workflow
Automation
Decision
Automation
Open Standards
DMN
(DECISION MODEL AND NOTATION)
Decision tables and logical expressions
BPMN
(BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL AND NOTATION)
Prescriptive sequence of activities
CMMN
(CASE MANAGEMENT MODEL AND NOTATION)
Declarative unstructured event-condition-action
Technology enabled
orchestration of activities, able
to react to business events.
Both may have humans in the loop or not.
(Referred to as Knowledge Workers.)
Technology enabled decisions,
returning answers given some
inputs.
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BPM+ Value Add
Data
Intelligent
Healthcare
Automation
Computable Data
Aggregated Data
Data Automation
Information Automation
Orchestration of knowledge
Workflow and Decision Automation
Data in clinical context
• EMR 1
• EMR 2
• Devices
• Wearables
• Diagnostics
• Claims
• Common schema
• Identity resolution
• Medical resources
• Metadata
• Context
• Events awareness
• Tasks and activities
• Roles and responsibilities
• Decisioning
• Case management
• Event orchestration
• AI and ML
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Models
Unattended and Attended
Services
CDS Hooks Card
Pre-fetch
FHIR enabled
BPM+ Services
Emulates an eHR or eMR
Subject Matter Expert Healthcare Professional
BPM+ and FHIR
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FHIR® Accelerator
Concept Map
Vocabulary
Rules
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Conclusions
We hope that we have demonstrated how:
Telemedicine has inherent risks that can be mitigated, while it can
mitigate risks associated with value-based care.
Automated detection of warning signs (“red flags”) can identify a
high-risk patient.
The Patient Summary (IPS) can help to quickly fill gaps in a
patient’s information.
BPM+ Health standards combined with HL7 Standards offers
access to the right data at the right time.
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Any questions?
THANKS!
Dr. John Svirbely, MD
Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO),
jsvirbely@Trisotech.com
Denis Gagne
Chief Executive Officer (CEO),
dgagne@Trisotech.com