Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem
- Henry Kissinger
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Using a federated and de-centralized web-based architecture, Clalit Health Services and Israeli software company, dbMotion, created an enterprise-wide system able to query asynchronously the entire set of local repositories, integrate the responses and present the caregiver with a unified, integrated “Virtual Patient Record” for viewing only, all within seconds. The system was later extended by Clalit to include large competitor medical centers to create a Regional Health Information Organization and Health Information Exchange.
Medical information sharing is an organizational norm throughout Clalit Health Services. For other organizations considering establishing a Medical Information Sharing Network there now exists a reference project that has been operational long enough to be judged success or failure.
Clalit Health Services – Israel’s leading HMO – has shown the feasibility of an enterprise-wide eHealth model – including Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) components based on the dbMotion medical information sharing solution. The model – in whole or in part – is both replicable and transferable to other large healthcare environments, whether they are national, multi-national or regional.
Clalit Health Services has distinguished itself from other HMOs by successfully combining and integrating BI and medical information sharing tools – eHealth par excellence – thereby empowering clinicians, caregivers and healthcare managers with tailor-made clinical and management tools. Nearly all of Clalit’s more than 30,000 workforce is a BI and/or medical information sharing consumer.
Click on the post to download the paper, “Clalit Health Services. Improving healthcare through ehealth: a working model”.
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About the Author Daniel Mustacchi is currently CIO of one of Israel’s specialized hospitals.
His record includes:
CEO of a Kibbutz; Board Member, Ramat Negev Regional Council; Deputy Chief Scientist, Ministry of Science;
Secretary of the Chief Scientists’ Forum; Coordinator, International Forum on Science and Technology Advice to the Highest Levels of Government, (Weizmann Institute of Science); Head of Enterprise Business Intelligence Competency, Support and Customer Service in Israel's largest HMO; Consultant; Entrepreneur; and Emissary to Jewish Refuseniks in the Soviet Union.
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