No, Deep Health does not replace the practice management system.
It is a detailed clinical notes system that
can be integrated with any practice management system, or be
used on its own. The surgeon uses Deep Health to make his / her
routine clinical notes, and rich clinical data can then be
extrapolated from these clinical notes.
A small group of South African surgeons have partnered with
software programming and statistical expertise to develop a
clinical notes system that has the ability to track, predict and
analyse surgical outcomes.
No, your data forms part of a “sterilised” or anonymous data
base to which all the users contribute their clinical- and
outcomes data. Each surgeon’s data belongs to the user, and the
user will have to give consent to any external parties to have
access to the practice specific, unsterilised, full set of data.
No, your data forms part of a “sterilised” or anonymous data
base to which all the users contribute their clinical- and
outcomes data. Each surgeon’s data belongs to the user, and the
user will have to give consent to any external parties to have
access to the practice specific, unsterilised, full set of data.
You may, however, choose to send discharge summaries to the
medical aids who request it.
Capturing data in the form of clinical notes on Deep Health does
not add an administrative burden on the surgeon - rather, the
clinical data is extrapolated from the clinical notes that the
surgeon would have made in any event. The surgeon will have to
make a mind shift to make clinical notes electronically after
seeing each patient, instead of paper based notes made at the
end of the day. An added function of Deep Health is that
specific clinical notes can be e-mailed to referring providers
simply be completing and saving the clinical note.
The BSI Deep Health analytics system requires a few months of
data per surgeon to start showing meaningful (significant)
relationships between undelying factors and surgical outcomes.
The "Unit and Outcomes Stats Overview" page can be used to track
the statistical significance of these relationships per
outcome.
Yes. At the moment Deep Health has only been developed for
general surgery and its sub- specialities. However, the plan is
to develop the system for other specialities so that it can
become a single electronic health record used by specialists and
hospitals.