Shareable Ink Helps Providers Capture Quality Data at Point of Care for National Registry of Clinical Outcomes

Shareable Ink®, today announced the successful submission of quality data to the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) Clinical Outcome Registry (SCOR) using the Shareable Ink Anesthesia SuiteTM.

This is “big data” in action.  “Reporting live from the field” – in real time – into a national quality registry is exactly what the industry as a whole is looking for in order to identify quality and cost issues to improve healthcare overall.

How Shareable Ink contributes to “big data” in such a unique way:

1.       Cloud-based – means that the links to national registry databases are already set up for each and every user – no matter how small the practice.  The provider doesn’t have to deal with connectivity or interfacing issues, or time-consuming manual abstraction of charts to retrieve the data that the registry is looking for.

2.       Does not inflict any workflow change on providers.  The data is captured and exported as a byproduct of the documentation they’re doing anyway as part of the visit.

3.       Structured data at the source.  Our industry is starting to realize that greater adoption of EHR does not mean more or better data.  Much data entered into EHRs is unstructured (free text typed or dictated) – and therefore pretty useless for submitting to registries or analyzing.  Shareable Ink’s approach creates structured data at the source – as the physician is documenting – which can immediately be submitted to registries with no further human intervention.

Information from Portable Anesthesia EHR Helps Clinicians Obtain Benchmarks and Discover Best Practices for Clinical Problems 

Nashville, TN and Chicago, IL  (October 12, 2012) Shareable Ink®, an enterprise cloud computing company that transforms handwritten documentation to structured data and analytics, today announced the successful submission of quality data to the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) Clinical Outcome Registry (SCOR) using the Shareable Ink Anesthesia SuiteTM.  Anesthesia data is captured electronically and submitted to SCOR as a natural by-product of case documentation in Shareable Ink’s anesthesia EHR.

Through the use of natural input tools, Shareable Ink works as a portable anesthesia electronic health record that allows any anesthesia provider, even those working in ambulatory and office-based settings, to easily and effortlessly capture quality data at the point of care during the course of their normal case documentation. This data is fed directly to SCOR to obtain national benchmarks for the anesthesia group and discover best practices for important clinical problems, such as PONV (postoperative nausea and vomiting), delayed awakening, GERD and perioperative glucose management.

“The SCOR registry currently holds more than 10,000 cases used to track performance measures and is the result of several rounds of revision based on input from active, practicing members of the anesthesia community,” said Dr. John Dilger, SAMBA President. “Through partnerships with industry innovators like Shareable Ink, we’re positioned to make incredible progress to exponentially grow the amount of data and advance the quality of care, so we can have a greater impact on future patient outcomes.”

SCOR is structured to include elements needed for national quality reporting initiatives such as AHRQ, NQF and the Joint Commission.

“Shareable Ink enables the easiest capture of structured data at the point of care,” said Stephen S. Hau, President and CEO, Shareable Ink. “We then share that data with national registries, such as SCOR, to deliver on the promises of data-driven healthcare.  At the end of the day, it’s about providing measurable comparisons and insights to help individual providers, facilities, and the industry in general improve healthcare outcomes.”

About SAMBA / SCOR

The Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) is one of the fastest growing anesthesia organizations, responding to the education and research needs of perioperative physicians practicing ambulatory anesthesia. Founded in 1985, SAMBA enjoys a membership of over 1,400 physicians who actively practice ambulatory, office-based and private practice anesthesia, other health professionals with an interest in ambulatory anesthesia, and residents in training.  http://www.sambahq.org/

SAMBA’s Clinical Outcome Registry (SCOR) is a clinical registry of patient outcomes in ambulatory anesthesia developed by SAMBA. It is structured to include elements needed for national quality reporting as well as to improve your own practice. SCOR is a member benefit of SAMBA, with reports provided to SAMBA members at no cost. SCOR is affiliated with AQI and MPOG. For further information regarding these partnerships, please contact the SAMBA office at (847) 825-5586 or visit the SCOR website at www.scordata.org.

About Shareable Ink
Shareable Ink helps healthcare organizations of all sizes transition to electronic health records without disruption to workflow or burdensome IT projects. Its enterprise cloud-based platform incorporates natural input tools, including iPads and digital pen and paper technology featuring Anoto functionality. The resulting structured and clinically-encoded output populates the EHR with discrete data, as if typed in directly. Built-in analytics give hospitals and practices insight into their operations — from a clinical, quality and efficiency standpoint — all previously inaccessible from traditional paper records. For additional information, visit www.shareableink.com.

   

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