Many healthcare organisations struggle with collecting and viewing patient data. Limited by the constraints of healthcare information systems, such as their EHR, they often work with non-editable medical forms to collect patient data, and are restricted in the way they can visualise patient data within their EHR.

Frustrated by limited or costly customisation, they turn to point solutions, only solving a part of the problem. In a time with increasing demands being placed on healthcare an integrated solution is needed that makes organisations more flexible and less dependent on their healthcare information systems.

Open Health Hub offers a FHIR-based platform for medical forms that enables healthcare organisations to design their medical forms in a quick and easy way, collect patient data through our platform or fully embedded within their existing systems, and view patient data in a custom dashboard right within their EHR or other healthcare information systems.

Design

Challenges

• Healthcare organisations are not able to easily edit existing medical forms. And even if this is possible, it is very costly and time-consuming because they often need to negotiate with their EHR- or medical form provider. There is a high dependency on and lock-in with these EHR providers and other healthcare partners. 
• Designing custom or rare medical forms is time consuming and costly. There often is no library available for these forms, so healthcare organisations need to design them themselves.
• There is currently no easy and friendly to use form designer. Vendors often ingnore or are not willing to help here

How it should be

We think designing and editing medical forms shouldn’t be this hard. The healthcare industry would benefit from easier and cheaper medical form customisation, savings time and costs, with more efficient patient care as a result. 

How we do it

We have developed a Design solution that makes it possible to design medical forms in a super easy way. Choose from our extensive library of validated medical forms or design your own from scratch. Change an existing form? No worries, healthcare organisations easily edit questions or add a new one.

Features

• Integrate code systems: our Designer gives healthcare organisations the power to manage and integrate code systems – such as SNOMED – directly into their forms. By incorporating standardised codes and medical terminologies you’ll enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the patient data collection process and patient data exchange. It ensures that health data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable, aligning well with the FAIR principles and ultimately contributing to improved patient care and health outcomes.. 
• Conditional rules: with conditional rules you create questions that adapt based on the patient’s form responses. Add logic to your forms to save your patient or candidate time and increase the response rate.
• Many question types: choose from a wide range of question types such as a slider, multiple choice, multiple select, a date questions, or add a photo question so patients can take a picture of a wound or their medication.
• Scores and subscores: use scores and subscores for more detailed and specific measurements. This way, healthcare organisations can assess areas like anxiety and depression individually for mental health measurements, while mapping certain lifestyle factors with an intake form. 

Examples of how our Design solution can be used:

• To quickly use PROMS and PREMS from our library
• To create custom intake forms
• To design clinical research surveys
• For medical forms for rare diseases
• To track preventative health measures

Collect

Challenges

• Healthcare organisations often collect patient data via a standalone point-solution, developed to do just that and nothing else and which doesn’t integrate easily with other systems.
• These point solutions are don’t work well across healthcare departments and different types of healthcare organisations.
• The patient data that is collected with these point solutions is shared with healthcare organisations in an inefficient way and format. Sometimes they must still manually enter this information into other systems or they receive a simple CSV that can be exported. 
• Privacy and security are a big challenge in collecting patient data. 

How it should be

We think collecting patient data should be safe and secure up to the highest standards and done according to the FHIR standard (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) for interoperable use, so that patient data can be directly shared across other healthcare information systems via end-to-end encryption. 

How we do it

We make it easy for healthcare organisations to collect patient data by sharing our medical forms with patients right within their existing systems, completely white-label. We collect patient data safely, securely and compliant with the latest ISO and NEN certifications and HIPAA regulations and fully end-to-end encrypted. Our Collect solution is built based on FHIR, meaning that collected patient data is structured in an interoperable format for use across other systems, or even for AI applications. 

Features 

• Seamless white-label integration: Healthcare organisations can use our user-friendly app for patient data collection, or seamlessly and white-label integrate our solution with their existing systems so that patients can enter their data directly through their own website, mobile app, or portal 
• Single Sign-On: no need for patients to log onto another system. By integrating our solution into the healthcare organisation’s own applications, patients can access medical forms right from the patient portal.
• Structured Data Capture for AI: because our platform is designed according to FHIR interoperability standards, the patient data that healthcare organisations collect with our medical forms is captured in a structured format ready to be used for AI applications. FHIR supports real-time data access, crucial for timely analysis and prompt decision-making. 
• Privacy and security: privacy by design is our most important core value. End-to-end encryption guarantees that only patients and healthcare providers can access patient data. 

Examples of how our Collect solution can be used:

• More efficient patient data collection with digital PROMS and PREMS to improve the implementation of Value Based Health Care (VBHC)
• Collecting basic patient information with intake forms 
• Collecting clinical research results 
• Tracking working conditions, preventive measures
• Consistent patient data collection across healthcare departments

View 

Challenges

• Healthcare organisations are currently significantly limited in the ways they can visualise patient data within their EHR or other healthcare information systems. 
• Combining patient information from various data sources within one system such as the EHR is impossible due to different formatting of patient data. Healthcare professionals often need to switch between different healthcare information systems to build a complete picture of the patient. This is time-consuming and unnecessarily delays crucial clinical decision-making.
• Many EHRs are built on legacy software and are not designed according to the FHIR standard. 

How it should be

We think building a holistic and comprehensive view of the patient’s health status can be easier. We think it should be possible to have one place where healthcare professionals can access and view all the collected patient data and build a dashboard to get the insights that they need. 

How we do it

Patient data captured through our medical form solutions is structured according to the FHIR interoperability standard, meaning that the patient data can be readily shared and viewed within other systems without manual data entry, such as within our own Viewer. We think all patient data collection solutions will move towards FHIR in the future.

Take it one step further and meet our FHIR Viewer. A unique innovation that we have developed as an answer to the rigidity of current EHR systems. With our FHIR Viewer healthcare organisations can view collected patient data right within their existing EHR. And they can even build their own medical dashboard showing custom charts and graps from various patient data sources.

Features

• Create your own medical dashboard: With our FHIR Viewer, healthcare organisations have the freedom to create custom views, making valuable insights readily accessible. Pick and mix the charts that you need. 
• Combining data: our unique FHIR Viewer allows healthcare organisations to view and combine data from various FHIR applications, both from within and outside your organisation. Add patient data from medical devices or home measurements? No problem, our FHIR technology allows for integration with all patient data.
• Easy export: of course, the data isn’t only available on the screen. Healthcare organisations can also export it in CSV, Excel, or PDF format. Our FHIR-based infrastructure also allows for convenient exports to other environments, such as a datalake. 
• Easy IT integration: our simplified IT integration saves IT-professionals time implementing our solution. We focus on more and better patient care, no complex integration process.

Examples of how our View solution can be used: 

• Combine patient data from medical forms with data from medical devices such as home monitoring
• Build a holistic patient view and speed up your clinical decision making
• Share dashboards with colleagues

Summary

We’re not a point solution, we solve the full problem. We offer a platform based on FHIR technology that has many use cases and that can be seamlessly and white-label integrated with existing healthcare information systems. We’re interoperable by design, so future proof without lock-in, and to be integrated with other applications. 

What’s more, because we know integration of new technologies within healthcare organisations can be complex we have focused on a very easy IT implementation, enabling healthcare organisations to get started within three weeks already. We’re even offering our solution on the Azure marketplace. 

Interested? Feel free to get in touch and see how we can help your healthcare organisation save time.