Published on 29-Jun-2011
Validated on 28 Feb 2013
"Today, with so many drug therapies available and often so little face time with patients, even the most experienced doctors cannot fully and accurately assess the complex possibilities for adverse drug interactions. So having the ability to spot dangers is a game-changer for improving patient safety." - Dong Kyun Park, Director of U-Healthcare Center, Gachon University Gil Hospital
Customer:
Gachon University Gil Hospital
Industry:
Healthcare
Deployment country:
Korea - Republic of
Solution:
Database Management, Business Intelligence, IBM Research, Information Governance, Information Integration, Smarter Planet, Dynamic Infrastructure, Linux, Openness
Smarter Planet:
Smarter Healthcare
Overview
What if doctors could improve patient safety by lowering the risk of giving patients drugs that could, potentially, cause an adverse reaction?
Business need:
Gachon University Gil Hospital wanted an advanced clinical decision platform to assist its practitioners, help educate its patients and minimize the possibility of adverse drug events (ADEs), the fourth-leading cause of patient death worldwide. Sixty percent of ADE incidents result from a lack of drug or patient information.
Solution:
Gil Medical Center’s business intelligence system analyzes a detailed combination of drug and patient information to produce insights for physicians that are meaningful and extremely useful in lowering the risk of ADEs. The BI system combines ADE-related knowledge with patient-specific clinical data, like age, disease, and alcohol and drug-use history drawn from electronic medical records, personal health records, genomic services, sensor devices and other sources.
Benefits:
• Developed a platform that will support the low-cost implementation of new Knowledge Management functions, such as chronic disease management and clinical pathway monitoring
• Provided clinicians, pharmacists and patients with much more accurate drug risk results than were previously available
• Enables hospitals to dramatically improve patient safety by reducing the possibility of ADEs
Case Study
Founded in 1958 as an obstetrics and gynecology clinic, Gachon University Gil Hospital has grown to become one of Korea’s leading healthcare providers. Today, Gachon University Gil Hospital is a world-class center with more than 30 medical departments and specialized centers as well as an affiliated medical university and research institute. Gachon University Gil Hospital is headquartered in Incheon, Korea.
The Opportunity
Gachon University Gil Hospital wanted an advanced clinical decision platform to assist its practitioners, help educate its patients and minimize the possibility of adverse drug events (ADEs), the fourth-leading cause of patient death worldwide. Sixty percent of ADE incidents result from a lack of drug or patient information.
What Makes it Smarter
The last thing any healthcare provider wants is for actions designed to help a patient to actually have the opposite result. Gil Medical Center’s business intelligence system significantly decreases that possibility by helping to radically reduce the risk of adverse drug events. It analyzes a detailed combination of drug and patient information to produce insights for physicians that are meaningful and extremely useful in lowering the risk of ADEs. The BI system combines ADE-related knowledge with patient-specific clinical data, like age, disease, and alcohol and drug-use history drawn from electronic medical records, personal health records, genomic services, sensor devices and other sources.
Real Business Results
• Developed a platform that will support the low-cost implementation of new Knowledge Management functions, such as chronic disease management and clinical pathway monitoring
• Provided clinicians, pharmacists and patients with much more accurate drug risk results than were previously available
• Enables hospitals to dramatically improve patient safety by reducing the possibility of ADEs
For more information
Please contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner. Visit us at: ibm.com/healthcare
To learn more about Gachon University Gil Hospital, visit: http://foreigner.gilhospital.com/
Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
Hardware:
System x: System x3500 M2
Software:
DB2 Enterprise 9, InfoSphere MashupHub, WebSphere Sensor Events, WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Enterprise Server Edition, IBM Mashup Center
Operating system:
Linux
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