CANTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDITECH and Google Health have advanced their search and summarization collaboration to the next phase, with DCH Health System (Tuscaloosa, AL) and Mile Bluff Medical Center (Mauston, WI) signing as early adopters of their integrated solution. The collaboration was announced earlier this year and will embed the Google Health search and summarization capabilities directly within the clinical workflow of the Expanse EHR.

MEDITECH saw the opportunity to leverage Google Health’s search and summarization capabilities to create a longitudinal view of a patient's health history within the web-based Expanse platform. This integrated workflow will provide clinicians with timely and intuitive access to relevant clinical information on their patients from both legacy platforms and disparate systems. Ultimately, this collaborative effort between MEDITECH and Google Health will enable a more holistic view of the patient and their conditions and make their medical history more actionable.

“This feature takes our EHR to new heights in our ability to provide holistic, patient-centered care. It is positioning our doctors, nurses, and care providers to aggregate information on patients’ past and present conditions faster, to improve the quality of care,” said CIO Billy Helmandollar of DCH Health System.
“We must innovate and think outside the box in order to have advancements in healthcare technology and reduce the burden on clinicians. I am very encouraged by MEDITECH’s commitment to work with innovative partners and make the system even better than it is today.”

Clinicians at DCH Health System are equally excited about the workflow improvements this integration will provide. “Having a consolidated, condition-level view of both structured and unstructured data from across the patient’s history – regardless of how or where it is stored – means less time searching records and more time treating our patients,” said Dr. Robin Wilson, CMO of DCH Health System.

The Expanse solution will leverage Google Health’s intelligent summarization, search, and second-level insights capabilities to extract information from different parts of the patient record – such as current and legacy data and scanned as well as handwritten documents – to produce a curated summary of a patient’s health conditions.

“We are looking forward to these new capabilities and expect they will lead to better health outcomes, in addition to improved overall satisfaction for patients and clinicians,” said IT Director Pat Stubbs of Mile Bluff Medical Center, which will be adopting the solution on their cloud-based MEDITECH-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform.

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