New Orleans, LA (March 4, 2013) – Nemours, one of America’s largest providers of pediatrics subspecialty care has chosen Clarity Health Journal to support its Pediatric Obesity Research Cluster (ORC). A multi-disciplinary team of researchers have commenced recruitment through the pediatric clinics of the Alfred I. DuPont Hospital (Wilmington, Delaware). A co-branded version of Clarity Health Journal is live in the Nemours production environment allowing patient generated data to be passed to the appropriate location within the patient’s medical record.
“This study is about a new level of child and family engagement,” said Dr. David E. Milov, Chief Medical Information Officer at Nemours. “We are measuring compliance of patients who receive supportive messages based on their own responses from the most recent clinic visit.” He went on to say “we chose Clarity Health Journal for its unique family based approach which permits many disparate data types (like dental, insurance and even other family members) within a single portal in the family’s home. It also considers the physician’s needs, allowing population views for all the provider’s patients utilizing the Nemours Health Journal. Implementation was exceptionally quick and low-cost.”
The Nemours Children’s Hospital of Delaware has started recruiting patients for its pilot research program that will study and monitor outcome measures related to patient and family involvement in the health care process. Patients in the pilot will use Clarity Health Journal, co-branded as Nemours Health Journal to collect and share information with the research team.
For several years Nemours had been investigating how to better engage patients and families in the process of care. Recognizing the evolving needs and technological capabilities of patients and their families, they chose Clarity Health Journal developed by Consulting Cadre to support the ORC program. The pilot program will identify children with a medium to high risk of diabetes and provide them access to Nemours Health Journal.
Nemours Health Journal will allow families to track their food, exercise and other health information to help provide the Nemours research team with a more complete picture of their health. The goal of the project is to engage families dealing with Child Obesity in order to better understand the use of technology to improve patient outcomes by empowering families.
“Clarity Health Journal fosters better quality health by promoting family and patient participation in the management of their health, integrating health data into the healthcare providers’ work flow, increasing the quality and accuracy of that information and driving down the cost of healthcare,” explains Saverio Rinaldi, President and CEO of Consulting Cadre International Inc. “We are honored that the researchers at Nemours chose Clarity Health Journal to be part of this pilot and we look forward to supporting and contributing to this very important project.”
Clarity Health Journal (www.clarityhealthjournal.com) designed as a family centric health application allows for information sharing and monitoring. It will be used by family members of patients at Nemours. Focusing on both the patient and the family is a unique approach to healthcare. Parents of children with health conditions are motivated in monitoring their health and working with the care team to foster health and wellness while lowering the cost of healthcare.
Clarity Health Journal has the capability to cover the broad spectrum of individual health management, from post-natal and elderly care to normal health and chronic disease management. The solution takes an individual’s health information, which today can be found in paper and/or electronic form in one or more places, including general practitioners and/or specialists’ offices, hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities and patients’ residences and re-engineers them into an accessible, updatable, electronic health journal.
