The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the second largest U.S municipal system, is growing its population health management platform with Cerner’s HealtheIntent technology.
Cerner’s platform is designed to enable thousands of LACDHS clinicians to make more informed decisions by providing a comprehensive profile of an individual and the entire population, company executives said. The profile can be used to identify gaps in care and analyze population and enterprise data through use of Cerner's registries – HealtheRegistries and HealtheEDW, – scorecards and enterprise data warehouse technology.
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"Our goal is to improve the health of the community that DHS serves, moving it to the highest standard possible," LACDHS chief medical information officer Robert Bart, MD, said in a statement.
Cerner executives describe HealtheIntent as a source-agnostic, near real-time population health management platform designed to aggregate and normalize data from multiple sources.
“You need to be able to have a system powerful enough to aggregate all that data and make sense of it and then give proper information back to the clinician,” Cerner President Zane Burke told Healthcare IT News in a recent interview. “The business problems we’re trying to solve – our clients are trying to solve – they’re much bigger than they were just a few years ago.”
To that end, HealtheIntent takes data from the disparate sources, he said, runs all the algorithms and the semantic matching against the data to help provide intelligence back into the workflow to the client.
“We have fundamentally architected HeatheIntent to sit above the EMR,” Burke added.
This deal makes the health system Cerner’s 100th HealtheIntent client. LACDHS is working in collaboration with the California PRIME Project on the project.
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