TransformativeMed Partners with UAB Health System to Streamline Clinical Workflows and Prevent Clinician Burnout
SEATTLE, Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — TransformativeMed announced today a partnership with University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System to improve clinical workflow efficiency, support high-quality patient care and increase provider satisfaction to reduce the risk of burnout.
TransformativeMed transforms electronic health records (EHRs) with apps directly embedded within the EHRs. UAB is one of the top academic medical centers in the nation and a recognized leader in quality patient care, research and training. Located in Birmingham, Ala., UAB Hospital is consistently named among the “Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report, which also ranks many of its medical specialties among the best programs of their kind in the United States.
TransformativeMed’s Core Work Manager App, Core Work Manager Mobile App and Core Notify App will be implemented in UAB Hospital. Founded in 1945 as a teaching hospital, UAB Hospital is a 1,157-bed facility for the UAB School of Medicine. One of the largest and most advanced in the nation, UAB Hospital is the centerpiece of a sprawling medical campus that includes numerous research labs and clinics.
UAB believes TransformativeMed will help physicians, residents and other clinicians work more intuitively and efficiently, which helps alleviate the technological burdens associated with EHR usability and the cognitive overload leading to clinician burnout. According to recent research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, unfavorable productivity and associated burnout rates are costing U.S. health systems more than $4.6 billion a year in physician turnover and reduced clinical hours. Similarly, a report published by the National Academy of Medicine in October 2019, “Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being,” urges health systems to pursue several goals, among them: “improve the usability and relevance of health IT” and “reduce tasks that do not improve patient care.”
“As an academic medical center, we want to instill the principles of high-quality, compassionate and evidence-based patient care with our trainees, while minimizing the effects of professional stress that can lead to burnout,” said Brenessa Lindeman, MD, MEHP, Associate Designated Institutional Official for the Clinical Learning Environment at UAB. “We believe TransformativeMed will evolve our EHR, transforming it into technology that enhances clinicians’ training or practice, thus enabling them to deliver optimal patient care.”
A Unified Solution
The TransformativeMed applications that UAB is implementing are fully integrated, enabling residents and staff to quickly extract, evaluate, document and take action on data from multiple sources, regardless of their location. In greater detail, the applications are:
- Core Work Manager App. Embedded in the EHR, the Core Work Manager App delivers rich, actionable information visually presented in a format unique to each specialty’s priorities. Clinical teams caring for a patient have accurate, timely and actionable information to organize rounds, convey discharge readiness and conduct handoffs. A list of patients includes the most recent list of issues and is organized based on the information that each team needs to maximize relevance.
- Core Work Manager Mobile App. Everything clinicians need is delivered through this mobile app that allows a bidirectional flow of information between the EHR and the clinician’s smartphone or another mobile device. Their team’s patient to-do list can be reviewed and updated with the latest information from a personalized patient list, and tasks can be created and edited with voice-to-text and then automatically uploaded to the EHR for the entire care team to see. This capability minimizes entering the same information multiple times and ensures the team is updated in real time. With HIPAA-compliant security built in, providers and patients can trust that personal health information (PHI), is secure and protected.
- Core Notify App. With Notify, clinicians can subscribe to specific alerts, ensuring faster response rates. While easily configured based on user or facility, the Notify app also automatically learns clinicians’ preferences, so their alerts are always relevant and actionable.
“We are excited to partner with an organization that recognizes that specialty-specific content and workflows are essential in helping providers spend less time hunting and pecking around their EHR for information,” said Doug Cusick, CEO at TransformativeMed. “We are proud to work with UAB as a leading healthcare organization and commend them for taking action to improve the lives of their clinicians, as well as the patients and families they serve.”
About TransformativeMed
TransformativeMed dramatically improves the usability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), with specialty-specific and disease-specific workflows, which are embedded within the EHR. The Core Work Manager and Core Diabetes App securely synchronize clinical workflow, tasks, alerts, notifications and messages to harmonize the care team and create seamless communication across clinicians, using any device, including mobile. With TransformativeMed, clinicians are happier and clinical work is streamlined, more efficient, less costly and safer. Learn more at TransformativeMed.com.
About UAB Medicine
UAB Medicine comprises the School of Medicine and the $4.3 billion UAB Health System that includes all of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s patient-care activities and 2,300 licensed beds in six hospitals, one of which is UAB Hospital—the third-largest public hospital in the United States, winner of the Women’s Choice award, and one of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals. UAB is the state of Alabama’s largest single employer and an internationally renowned research university and academic health center; its professional schools and specialty patient-care programs are consistently ranked among the nation’s top 50. UAB is the largest academic medical center in Alabama and one of the top four largest academic medical centers in the United States. UAB is advancing innovative discoveries for better health as a two-time recipient of the prestigious Center for Translational Science Award. Find more information at www.uab.edu and www.uabmedicine.org.
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