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Data-Driven Healthcare: 5 Innovations Making Proactive Care Possible

Proactive care is an approach that focuses on preventing health problems before they occur or become severe, rather than just treating them when they arise. To support this, DocGo is committed to delivering innovative digital tools to enhance many aspects of patient care, from remote monitoring to hospital discharge processes. 

Here are five breakthroughs everyone should know about! 

1. Digital Health Records Integration: Streamlined Patient Data Management

• Digital health records are essential for modern healthcare, allowing for efficient management and sharing of patient data. 
• At DocGo, our application integrates with Epic Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to provide innovative features in Electronic Health Record (EHR) functionality, including medical transportation and mobile health home visit ordering directly from the patient chart.
• This proactive approach keeps pace with Epic’s updates, enhancing healthcare provider capabilities. 
• Whether you’re at the hospital, in the ambulance or meeting a clinician at home, all of your insurance information and patient history can be automatically pulled directly from the hospital’s EMR so you can receive proactive care.

2. Medical Transportation: Smart Dispatch Systems for Better Care

• Advanced data-driven technologies are revolutionizing medical transportation, ensuring timely patient transport with efficiency and precision. 
• DocGo’s platform features a sophisticated dispatch system to optimize routes and predict transportation needs through advanced data analytics. 
• Our platform also integrates with existing CAD technologies, like Zoll, ensuring that we can consolidate all network provider partners and transportation subcontractors into one centralized ordering platform and single source of truth for data warehousing. 
• Today, our system can prioritize routes and select the closest, most appropriate vehicle by integrating real-time data on traffic, vehicle location and status, and patient medical needs. 

3. Hospital Efficiency: Automated Notifications for Bed Management

• Automated notifications within DocGo’s medical transportation software streamline the process of patient flow and discharge in hospitals. 
• As soon as our EMTs or paramedics transport an outbound patient, designated departments are alerted automatically that the bed is cleared, ready for cleaning, and preparation for a new patient.
• This enables quicker bed turnover and improved hospital throughput.
• Patients no longer have to stay in the hospital when they could be recovering at home or endure cramped and crowded waiting rooms when they should be admitted. 
• As soon as a bed is empty, it’s ready for the next patient.

4. Fleet Management in Healthcare: Real-Time Medical Transport Dashboards

• Effective fleet management is crucial for timely medical transportation. 
• Our Transport Dashboard provides hospital staff real-time data visualization, showing details from medical transport requests to ambulance status and estimated time of arrival, which is also accessible within the Epic EMR system.
• Consider a typical scenario at 3 PM on a Friday, statistically one of the busiest times of the week. 
• Healthcare facilities are managing final appointments, discharging patients before the weekend, and responding to emergencies.
• Without effective fleet management journeys can be delayed or they may not happen at all! 

5. Remote Monitoring: Proactive Care for Chronic Conditions

• Once upon a time, the only way to receive medical advice and peace of mind about your chronic condition was to visit your doctor in person.
• Today, remote monitoring services utilize data to proactively manage chronic conditions, integrating virtual care management and remote monitoring to prevent complications.
• By analyzing a patient’s prior diagnoses, lab results, vitals, and visit history, DocGo’s system automatically initiates outreach for preventive services.  
• Through proactive care and preventive services based on comprehensive data analysis, we help manage conditions like hypertension and diabetes more effectively, reducing hospital visits and improving patient outcomes.

These breakthroughs are helping revolutionize healthcare by integrating digital care, virtual care, and telehealth with traditional methods. Proactive care both enhances service delivery AND significantly improves patient outcomes, demonstrating the vital importance of health innovation and value-based care.