General questions
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.

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The cost of using Deep Health is R3500 (excl VAT) per month per surgeon, or R2500 per surgeon in a group practice of three or more.
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.