The clinical knowledge management infrastructure of intermountain healthcare

摘要: Publisher Summary Intermountain's core clinical strategy is to provide high value care by effectively managing conditions and processes, while improving medical outcomes member satisfaction at the lowest necessary cost. This chapter discusses Clinical Knowledge Management (CKM) software infrastructure that has been implemented Intermountain, along with some utilization data demonstrating how extensively it being used. Since 1995, Intermountain building a new information systems infrastructure, known as HELP2. The are delivered providers through web-based shell developed in-house. Currently, offers functionality such laboratory results, radiology images reports, surgery etc. main components of HELP2 Data Repository, Healthcare Dictionary, Enterprise Master Patient Index. Another important component overall Warehouse, which receives feeds from almost all administrative databases used systems. Repository Foresight primary CKM infrastructure. presented reflects knowledge content were in production use September 2005, unless stated otherwise.