MultiScale Health Networks: Powerful systems to enhance patient care
About MultiScale Health Networks
MultiScale Health Networks is a pioneer in re-imagining health data by applying new technologies to old approaches. MultiScale Hive brings the vision of a real-time health system to healthcare by leveraging the proven technologies that have transformed countless industries into real-time operations. Hive enables clinicians to communicate more securely and collaborate with EHR and health operations data to address issues before they become problems.
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Contact usMultiScale Health Networks uses the cloud to help clinicians communicate more securely and utilize EHR and health operations data to address patient issues in real time. MultiScale needed a platform that supports large amounts of daily data processing with robust data protections to meet the security needs of healthcare providers.
Google Cloud results
- Helps secure patient data and maintains HIPAA compliance with Google Cloud encryption abilities
- Reduces Hive platform operating costs through flexible on-demand pricing models
- Drives innovation and efficiency gains through MultiScale Hive apps that help health systems track and manage patient care experience
- Adds ability to develop machine learning tools that analyze health system patient treatment records for insights such as how to reduce readmission rates
Streams EHR data in milliseconds instead of hours
Enabling Change
Solutions: Data & Application Protection, Migration
Clinical communication within and across departments is a crucial factor to ensuring a positive and efficient patient experience. MultiScale Hive apps leverage Google Cloud to encourage intuitive collaboration among hospital staff to proactively improve patient care. The Hive ED app helps providers in Emergency Departments (ED) monitor individual patient timelines, tracking wait times and automating alerts to notify caregivers when to prepare an inpatient room. By enabling stakeholders to easily see and work with patient data, these features help ensure that patients don't have to wait longer than needed, and that the right care is provided at the right time. MultiScale reports a 26 percent year-to-date reduction in ED patients leaving without being seen and a 33 percent reduction in the length of stay, leading to improved quality of care and patient experience.
Cloud Bigtable more securely hosts patient health information for the platform and consolidates data for entire organizations onto a unified hub. MultiScale needed specialized data security resources due to high-privacy HIPAA standards for patient health records. Prospective cloud providers could not see or access stored patient files. Strong encryption tools in Google Cloud help MultiScale meet industry security compliance requirements.
"Cloud Bigtable helps us store and process data at the rate and size that healthcare providers require. The performance scalability of Cloud Bigtable has been a big reason why we've been able to grow within Google Cloud," says Geoff O'Farrell, Senior Director, Technical Services Group at MultiScale Health Networks.
Cloud Storage supports the MultiScale platform data archiving needs. High-demand customers can go through a terabyte of data per day, while Stackdriver and other Google Cloud products help with tasks such as platform performance monitoring. Migrating to Google Cloud has enabled MultiScale to explore machine learning and artificial intelligence applications that are likely to include securely analyzing patient treatment histories and clinician care notes to find insights on reducing readmission rates.
The platform's apps leverage the high uptime and performance of Google Cloud to help providers monitor individual patient timelines, tracking when they enter a waiting room and automating alerts for when to prepare an inpatient room. These features help improve care quality by allowing stakeholders to easily see and work with patient data, which reduces the risk of emergency room overcrowding and delays, and helps ensure that patients don't have to wait longer than needed.
"Small delays add up and can negatively impact patient care for healthcare providers. Our platform eliminates these roadblocks to encourage better communication and collaboration among medical staff. It wouldn't be possible to do this at scale without Google Cloud."
—Stacey Kinkead, Chief Product and Operating Officer, MultiScale Health NetworksTell us your challenge. We're here to help.
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About MultiScale Health Networks
MultiScale Health Networks is a pioneer in re-imagining health data by applying new technologies to old approaches. MultiScale Hive brings the vision of a real-time health system to healthcare by leveraging the proven technologies that have transformed countless industries into real-time operations. Hive enables clinicians to communicate more securely and collaborate with EHR and health operations data to address issues before they become problems.