HASC and Collective Medical Technologies, Inc. this week finalized a partnership that brings the firm’s EDIE collaborative care management tool to member emergency department physicians and managers.

“The EDIE system is a hospital standard in Washington State, Oregon, the Bay Area, and several other states,” said Kimberly Johnson, HASC association services director. “We are proud to help bring this technology to Southern California, and believe it will show a similar return on investment for facilities here.” 

EDIE integrates with EMRs as well as provides a web-based, collaborative care management tool that lets professionals coordinate care for high-need patients irrespective of hospital, emergency center, health system or geographic boundaries. 

EDIE puts an easily-digestible brief in the hands of physicians that includes the following data points. 

• ED-specific care recommendations
• Provider contact information
• Past security events (verbal, physical, etc.)
• PDMP information (where available)
• Utilization patterns
• And other guidance specific to the emergency room

EDIE automatically pushes a one-page report of ED-relevant information on the patient via whatever method works best for an organization—fax, network printer, email, text message, or directly into a facility’s EHR ED tracking board—ensuring that wherever a patient goes, their care coordination message is delivered in the form it’s needed.

EDIE “goes beyond hunches and clinical suspicion and is based on data and information,” explained Stephen Anderson, MD, a Seattle-based emergency physician who works with the system. ”If it finds something relevant, you’re immediately alerted. If not, you go about your business without wasting time searching for something that may not even exist.”

When a patient presents in any EDIE-equipped facility, their information is uploaded to cloud-based storage. When a patient presents in the ED, the system scans their history for risk patterns that are immediately returned to inform treatment decisions.

In an analysis by UC San Francisco Doctor of Nursing Practice candidate Bernadette Martin Ruggles, facilities using an EDIE-like system showed a 23 percent return on investment, with the system and related procedures paying for themselves within a year.

That translates to demonstrable savings and a clear advantage for facilities connected to EDIE.

To learn more about EDIE, enroll for a free webinar, set for noon on Wednesday, May 16. To reserve a spot, please click here. With any questions, please contact Kimberly Johnson, HASC’s association services director.

Contact:
Kimberly Johnson
(213) 538-0772
kjohnson@hasc.org