WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the healthcare industry undergoes rampant merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, health systems are faced with the challenge of rapidly integrating data silos across hospitals to ensure continued quality of care and avoid revenue disruptions. In Health, Wolters Kluwer is now harnessing AI to bridge data in electronic health records (EHRs) and disparate systems, such as lab results, to improve how organizations identify and report hospital acquired infections.
“Healthcare has reached a tipping point when it comes to actionable data, but the language of healthcare remains largely unstandardized, limiting what can be understood across platforms and the people who need to act upon the information,” said Jean-Claude Saghbini, Chief Technology Officer for Wolters Kluwer, Health. “AI is increasing data-mapping capabilities exponentially, which enables the rapid identification of findings that benefit decision-making. For example, hospitals using our surveillance solutions for early detection and intervention of hospital acquired infections (HAI) will benefit from AI’s ability to map lab results faster and more accurately to reduce risks and help keep patients safe.”
Real-world data challenges
Wolters Kluwer’s data science team worked with Health Language® to use AI and machine learning to enhance the process of mapping lab results to fully standardized LOINC codes (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes), a common challenge among hospitals and payers post-mergers or when aggregating data from disparate EHRs or systems. Manually mapping lab results to LOINC is error-prone and can take months to complete. AI reduced the process considerably and enabled Wolters Kluwer’s Sentri7® customers to accurately and quickly comply with reporting HAIs to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to state health departments.
Saghbini added, “AI creates tremendous business value in healthcare helping to dramatically scale how healthcare organizations map troves of fragmented, non-standardized data. With a record number of M&A deals observed in 2018, the need for data science and mapping expertise to enable timely onboarding and provide a big picture, population level view of health system data in post-M&A organizations has only intensified.”
Beyond increasing the speed and accuracy of how healthcare organizations report HAIs, Wolters Kluwer is also applying AI to several other areas supporting patient engagement and clinical effectiveness.
To learn more about Wolters Kluwer’s AI capabilities in healthcare and how they are helping organizations across the country improve quality of care and patient safety, visit http://healthclarity.wolterskluwer.com/connecting-the-dots-on-disease-with-ai.html.
About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer N.V. (AEX: WKL) is a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services for physicians, nurses, accountants, lawyers, tax specialists, and finance, audit, compliance, and regulatory sectors.
The company provides expert solutions - a combination of deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services - that help professionals navigate change, solve complex problems, and deliver impact in their respective fields.
Headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, Wolters Kluwer holds market-leading positions in 40 countries globally, represents customers across 180 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide. In 2018, it reported annual revenues of €4.3 billion.
Wolters Kluwer provides trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions that engage clinicians, patients, researchers and students with advanced clinical decision support, learning and research and clinical intelligence. For more information about our solutions, visit http://healthclarity.wolterskluwer.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @WKHealth.
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