Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: John Harrison, Chief Commercial Officer of Concord Technologies (Part 3)

John Harrison: Another application that we’re seeing is more on clinical data analytics. Being able to surface data contained in these repositories of unstructured content is already helping researchers discover new correlations of symptoms and treatments.

We’re working with a physician out of University of Colorado hospital and doing some wonderful work on leukemia. The physician believes that within a patient’s profile or particular results, indicators or lab markers of the success of various treatment protocols can be provided for each patient.

The trouble is the data about all those indicators is locked up in this massive volume of unstructured content. It’s contained in patient encounter notes. It’s contained in documents from a lab. It’s contained in imaging reports that are type letter responses.

What he’s trying to do is extract all of this data, surface them in a way that he can then run his analytics against it. In that case, we’re in the early stages but are very excited about the work that we’re doing with him to help surface data from those repositories and provide them up in a way that he is able to look more effectively for the correlations of those markers to the potential outcomes.

That’s another use case of the value of being able to unlock this massive volume of data and knowledge contained in documents. A third story is somewhat a blend of those two prior items. It’s the point at which interoperability of data and surfacing clinical insights help patients receive a better quality of care.

We can do some fairly basic things as a document is flowing through our platform to say, “Hold on. We understand what type of document we’re dealing with.” We can begin to look at some of the clinical information contained in that document and be able to surface and help the receiving practitioner identify things that they need to be aware of more quickly. We can help prioritize documents more quickly and help route documents to the top of a pile.

For simple things like looking at a lab result that has come in, or identifying a document that’s flowing through our platform as a lab result, we have to look at the lab results that are contained, identify exceptions or warrant more investigation or more notice. As a result of those, flag those documents, move them to the top of the pile, associate them with the patient, and notify somebody at the receiving practice to say, “You’ve received a lab result for this patient. It contains data that needs to be reviewed urgently.”

That’s just another nice example of where we’re able to tackle the problem of the lack of interoperability by surfacing the data that’s contained in these unstructured data sources.

This segment is part 3 in the series : Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: John Harrison, Chief Commercial Officer of Concord Technologies
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