Global Medical Informatics, Inc.
Company Background
Introduction
Global Medical Informatics (GMI), Inc. is a Delaware corporation dedicated to the creation, installation and maintenance of software systems for use in health care. Initially, the company has developed software for hospitals, ASCs and nursing home/rehab centers focusing on quality and safety. The system is currently in use at a critical access hospital in a live, test environment.
GMI is the product of recent research and development that identified methods to provide “mission critical” health care information to hospital executives in real-time. The company was created by our research team to provide its first hospital system as a capable vendor.
QA Works
There was a need to design comprehensive software systems to improve the clinical aspects of quality management in hospitals. The need for such systems became apparent with studies that showed the shortcomings of present systems in the areas of content, functionality and ease of use, standardization and connectivity with other systems, and disconnects with health care payers and other governing entities regarding quality activity. That need was confirmed with the mandate of quality reporting and new methods of payment for healthcare services as defined by “value-based purchasing”. It is clear that properly designed technology enables improved quality, cost savings, and increased revenue for hospitals. Research demonstrates that high-quality, efficient organizations produce greater financial success.
“QA Works”, GMI’s global quality and safety assurance system, can significantly benefit hospitals, ASCs and nursing home/rehab centers by providing them with a series of software modules structured in such a fashion as to outline the parameters of required documentation required by accrediting bodies while providing an instant gap analysis in areas of deficiency. When completed, QA Works will deliver feedback on the entire non-financial operational status of a hospital in a telegraphic “dashboard” format, updated in real time.
The initial modules include core areas as follows:
- Incident Reporting – which includes medication errors/variances, patient complaints, falls, wounds, adverse drug events, invasive procedure event tracking such as surgical site infections, wrong site/wrong procedure, perinatal incidents, supplies and environmental incidents, risk/safety incidents and behavioral incidents.
Other core modules consist of:
- Hospital Acquired Infection Reporting and Monitoring
- Quality Measurement and Reporting that include a comprehensive Peer Review module with workflow integration, and Radiology and Pathology Congruence Measures.
- Core Measures
- Physician Reappointment Profiles