It’s a stone-cold reality that every new implementation into the EHR increases the risk that it will incrementally slow the system, add complexity to the interface, and heighten the chances that something done during the implementation process will negatively impact some underlying EHR process, workflow, or data.

At illumiCare, we understand the enormous challenge that IT teams face each day in making new services available while also protecting the integrity of the overall system. That’s why we offer a non-intrusive ribbon of information that doesn’t directly interact or integrate with the EHR, but instead hovers over a hospital’s electronic health record to provide physicians with real-time, patient-specific cost and patient risk data about the patient concurrently being viewed in the EHR. And we do it with a light technical footprint; using existing provider authentication infrastructure and HL7 messages. As a result, it doesn’t slow the system, add clutter to the interface, or disrupt clinical workflow; and instead appears only in a small portion of the screen and only at the provider’s preference.

IllumiCare’s Smart Ribbon makes the new functionality and data that users want to use today--from a host of trusted third-party apps--available today, not sometime in the distant future, and we do it quicker, less costly, and with minimal risk when compared to traditional integration methods.

As data is transmitted in real-time, IllumiCare parses, cleans, maps, transforms and stages it for Ribbon presentation. This involves numerous steps of drug and test mappings, usage of algorithms to determine units of measures, dosing etc.; all matched back to the correct division and allocation of costs. Indicators of patient risk are also calculated (e.g. blood volume, radiation accumulation, etc.). The data is stored and maintained in an AWS private virtual cloud (US-based only), with each health system having its own database. Once called upon, it then will populate the IllumiCare Ribbon in real-time.

IllumiCare will provide an .msi of the Ribbon Application for installation into the virtual desktop environment (e.g., Citrix, VDI, etc.). IllumiCare is provisioned and deployed to registered users via your normal provisioning system.