Becker's Hospital Review

32 CIO / HEALTH IT Houston Methodist deploys AI platform to streamline patient-provider interactions By Andrea Park H ouston Methodist formed an "innovation relationship" with Notable Health to connect the patient experience and provider workflows within a single artificial intelli- gence-powered platform, the organizations announced Oct. 22. The platform integrates with existing EHR systems. It comprises an AI-powered, mobile-first intake assistant, along with voice-en- abled wearable technology for automated documentation. The technology allows the health system to "be more informed about a patient's unique history, automate more administrative tasks for staff and deliver superior care," Nicholas Desai, MD, Houston Methodist's chief medical information officer, said in a news release. Additionally, other physicians using the plat- form have reported reductions of several hours in time spent on medical paperwork. Houston Methodist will deploy the Notable Health platform across its ambulatory clinics, beginning with orthopedics. The technology will eventually be expanded across all primary and specialty care groups. n 60% of payers, providers plan to allocate spending to predictive analytics By Mackenzie Garrity P ayers and providers plan to put their money toward pre- dictive analytics, with a majority of them — 61 percent — expecting the investment to pay off, according to the 2019 Predictive Analytics in Health Care Trend Forecast survey con- ducted by the Society of Actuaries. Of those surveyed, 60 percent of payers and providers said they plan to dedicate 15 percent or more of their spending to predic- tive analytics this year. Many of these respondents predict that investments in predictive analytics will save their organization 15 percent or more over the next five years. Executives are also getting in on predictive analytics. Sixty per- cent said they are using predictive analytics within their organi- zation, which represents a 13-point year-over-year increase from 47 percent in 2018. When it comes to predictive analytics, 23 percent of payer and provider executives believe the future lies within data visualiza- tion, while 16 percent are focused on machine learning. Howev- er, to achieve success, organizations must overcome the prob- lem of "too much data," which 16 percent of providers said was the biggest barrier to implementing predictive analytics. n WakeMed deploys predictive analytics software to detect patient health decline By Jackie Drees W akeMed Health & Hospitals implement- ed predictive analytics software from Pera Health, a software-as-a-service company, that sorts through EHR data to identify potential pre- dictors for decline in a patient's health. The Raleigh, N.C.-based health system deployed the Rothman Index software in September at WakeMed Cary (N.C.) Hospital with a 47-day implementation pro- cess. WakeMed plans to integrate the software through- out the rest of the 941-bed health system later this year. The Rothman Index uses an algorithm that automat- ically integrates a patient's EHR data, including age, disease and care setting, with the individual's current vitals to detect problems in advance using predictive analytics. It can identify changes in patient condition hours or days earlier than existing vitals-based algo- rithms, according to the news release. n Just 4% of older adults use telehealth, survey finds By Jackie Drees O nly 4 percent of adults ages 50 to 80 had a telehealth visit in the past year, according to recent Ann Ar- bor-based University of Michigan survey. For its national poll on health aging, University of Michigan surveyed a sample of adults in May about their personal ex- periences with telehealth. While 14 percent of poll participants said that their health- care providers offer telehealth visits, 55 percent of respon- dents said they did not know if their providers do and 31 percent indicated their providers don't offer telehealth. When asked about their concerns regarding telehealth visits, respondents listed the following: • Provider wouldn't be able to do a physical exam: 71 percent. • Quality of care not as good as face-to-face visit: 68 percent. • Privacy: 49 percent. • Not feeling personally connected to the clinician: 49 percent. • Difficulty using the technology: 47 percent. • Difficulty seeing or hearing the clinician: 39 percent. n

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