Considered Solutions
Avant Sciences thinks deeply about difficult problems in healthcare, law enforcement, and financial markets. For example, healthcare IT has often lagged behind other industries in applying advanced computing sciences. Avant’s mission is to carefully analyze unsolved problems and bring best of breed solutions to effectively solve those challenges.
The biggest obstacle to solving problems is in describing them in the most accurate way possible. Healthcare is one of the world’s oldest industries and did not originate as a technology-focused endeavor. Consider the term medical record “duplicates,” for example. Healthcare does not have a “duplicate” record problem, rather, it has a “partial” record problem. The mislabeling of one of the biggest problems related to patient safety has hindered the ability to completely solve this persistent issue. By recognizing that many patients have partial records, and often more than two (2) medical records, and also considering that technologies for error prevention are better than merging records after the fact, we can finally solve this persistent problem.
More thoughts on duplicate patient records can be found in one of our short blog entries: Avant applies approaches unique-to-industry to eradicate “duplicate” records.