Innovator Awards 2012: The Semi-Finalist Teams

University of Missouri Health System (Columbia, Mo.)
Leader: Michael Heller, Software Architect
Project: Well Baby Nursery Automation/Paperless Rounding
Using the latest agile methodologies with an embedded team of software designers and engineers, developers at the University of Missouri Health Systems have created a dynamic, web-based dashboard called the WBN Multi-Patient List MPage, which is being used very successfully by clinicians doing rounding in the flagship hospital’s well baby nursery.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Leader: G. Daniel Martich, M.D., CMIO
Project: Online e-visits
The UPMC health system has made it possible for patients to participate in an innovative e-visits program, one in which they complete carefully designed questionnaires that provide medically relevant data to physicians through a secure online portal, allowing those patients to ask questions of their doctors in more than 20 different topic areas. Importantly, the UPMC staffers who designed the program incorporated a reimbursement model into the program using CPT code 99444 to allow for physician reimbursement through insurance.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Leader: Dan Drawbaugh, CIO
Project: Digital Pathology Consultation Portal
UPMC has internally developed a set of web-based tools to support digital pathology consultations and allow the digital viewing of whole slide images. The web-based program overcomes the challenges associated with the size of digital pathology studies and the lack of imaging standards.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Leader: Dan Drawbaugh, CIO
Project: Payer-Provider Clinical Information Integration
The UPMC health system, which has an affiliated health plan, has created an industry-first patient-centered clinical record that integrates both payer and provider data. The solution, implemented in the autumn of 2011, is being used to foster greater levels of insight into the patient’s complete longitudinal record. The combined record overcomes limits embedded in federal regulations that prohibit the co-storage of data from both provider and payer databases, through the use of an interoperability solution.