By Dr. Alan Warren, Chief Technology Officer at Oscar
Anyone who’s visited a doctor’s office knows the frustration of walking in, only to be handed a clipboard that asks them to recall their entire health history. It's an important exercise – doctors want to be able to give care based on an accurate view of a patient’s health – but also one that's prone to human error. Even when electronic health records are available, the systems that manage them are often siloed and incompatible, making it difficult for individual doctors to give patients the best possible care. What’s more, these records rarely tell the full story of a patient’s health.
Oscar is in a unique position to make the health care system work better for both providers and patients. Because Oscar has a bird's-eye view of the member's journey through the health care system, it can connect the dots from a member's health history and use data science to surface clinical insights. With the Clinical Dashboard, Oscar is enabling doctors to use some of these insights to improve the patient experience and health care outcomes.
What’s in the Clinical Dashboard?
The Clinical Dashboard is a tool that gives doctors a more holistic view – Oscar’s view – into a patient’s medical journey and flags clinically relevant information that they need to know. It synthesizes a member’s health history, medical encounters, lab results, active and past prescriptions, hospital admits and discharge alerts, allergies, and more into a readable profile of a member’s current state of health.
This data isn’t just available – it’s contextual. A team of Oscar technologists created algorithms that parse through , lab panels, and other relevant data feeds to generate alerts around likely health conditions, abnormal test results, and red flags.