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Healthcare Patient-at-a-Glance

Viz reduces costs, response times, and medical errors by making it easier for doctors to work together.

Skyrocketing costs, staff shortages, and complex treatments cause frustration for hospital administrators, physicians, medical staff, insurers, and patients alike. Burdensome paperwork adds costs and diverts time and attention away from direct patient interaction.

Dr. Laura Esserman at The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Viz are developing tools that introduce a more efficient, collaborative, outcome-based approach.

Dr. Esserman's cancer patients typically undergo care from oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, and surgeons. Sometimes this care occurs in different hospitals or even different cities. Yet to reach consensus about the best course of treatment, all of the physicians -- and the patient -- must work together and have access to the patient's history.

The hunt for and transfer of electronic files, x-rays, and hand-written notes that are often spread around different locations can further slow response times and decisions. Patients must sometimes even undergo procedures more than once, just to establish another set of records for a specific location.

Using CoMotion from Viz, visual representations of patient data, such as color-coded timelines, make it significantly easier to share and quickly interpret patient histories.

Rather than making individual recommendations based on short-term outcomes, physicians can make collaborative recommendations based on long-term patient histories and patterns of treatment outcomes in specific demographic groups.

In addition, patients can more easily participate in their own care and have access to success-rate data of people with cases just like their own.

Broader input, faster decisions, reduced chance of errors, and lowered costs? Most doctors (and patients, insurers, and administrators) would consider any two of them a miracle. Viz can give you all four. (And we make house calls.)