Making the pediatric perioperative surgical home come to life by leveraging existing health information technology

Area of Science:

• Health Informatics
• Healthcare Management
• Clinical Data Analytics

Background:

• The pediatric perioperative surgical home (PPSH) initiative aims to improve care integration within healthcare systems.
• Boston Children's Hospital's Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine sought a solution to support this initiative.

Purpose of the Study:

• To design and implement a patient data dashboard to support the PPSH initiative.
• The dashboard aims to facilitate care integration across the healthcare system.

Main Methods:

• Utilized 360 Technology to automatically aggregate patient data from all available Electronic Health Record (EHR) sources.
• Integrated multiple databases to enable visual, longitudinal tracking of patient care, outcomes, and costs.
• Developed a dashboard to guide the implementation of PPSH Clinical Care Pathways.

Main Results:

• The dashboard provides real-time display, comparison, and analysis of selected PPSH metrics.
• Automated, integrated clinical and financial data profiles enhance clinicians' comprehensive patient assessment.
• This approach supports bottom-up, evidence-based healthcare reform.

Conclusions:

• The PPSH dashboard demonstrates the value of integrated EHR data for improving patient outcomes.
• The use of such dashboards provides evidence for decreasing healthcare costs through enhanced data integration.