Delivering best practice care through advanced clinical point-of-care decision support
The sum of medical knowledge is increasing at unprecedented rates - doubling every 73 days.* As a result, clinicians are increasingly grappling with an overwhelming amount of information, making it nearly impossible to perfectly recall the most recent clinical guidance when meeting with their patients.
To help meet this challenge, Optum® has created a new, advanced point-of-care decision support tool, Clinical Assistant. It can instantly deliver a concise summary of the most up-to-date guideline-directed recommendations, specific to each patient’s conditions. Our solution integrates seamlessly within the provider’s existing EHR workflow, freeing up time for physicians to concentrate on patient care.
Key features
Real-time medication recommendations
Clinical Assistant provides real-time medication recommendations within the ambulatory workflow at the point of care, along with EHR order write-back, simplifying the ordering process. Patient-specific medication pricing assists providers in picking the most cost-effective medication for their patients.
Performance and analytics dashboards
Access real-time data on the utilization and impact of medication recommendations, and identify any opportunities for improved performance. Our reporting dashboards also track adherence to guidelines and identify areas of opportunity for improvement.
Evidence-based clinical content
Our comprehensive clinical content management systems simplify key decision-making criteria based on the most up-to-date clinical guidance, including side effects, benefits and costs — all without requiring the clinician to visit external sites.
Let Optum do the heavy lifting of translating and regularly updating guidelines.
EHR integration
Clinical Assistant leverages the latest interoperability technology to deliver insights at the point of care. Reduce any unnecessary clicks and disruptions by integrating the solution into your own EHR system.
I needed this yesterday. I think it’s going to be great for patients and fantastic for providers.
Provider, mid-sized health system
Key benefits
Recommendations embedded in the EHR
Clinical Assistant offers guideline-based medication recommendations and seamless order write-back, all integrated within the EHR.
Access to patient prescription costs
Clinical Assistant uses real-time prescription benefits to help providers select cost-effective medications tailored to patient needs.
Rigorous content development
Clinical Assistant provides regularly updated, evidence-based content from respected medical societies, ensuring accuracy through structured logic, comprehensive quality assurance and transparent guideline linkages.
Industry-leading CDS technology
Clinical Assistant uses advanced interoperability standards for seamless EHR integration, features evidence-based algorithms and real-time prescription benefits.
Clinical Assistant FAQ
Clinical Assistant offers recommendations for type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failure (HF), hyperlipidemia, asthma and migraine. Additional conditions are in development.
The content is based on trusted, accredited professional medical society guidelines (ADA, AHA, ACC, GOLD, GINA) and is transformed from text to structured logic by our expert team of clinical informaticists.
Clinical Assistant is updated whenever new guidelines are published, to always stay current.
The provider can launch Clinical Assistant directly from the patient’s chart during an ambulatory encounter. Patient-specific clinical data from the EHR are extracted in real time and rapidly applied to evidence-based algorithms within our CDS engine. This process generates guideline-based recommendations that are immediately displayed within the app for the provider's review. The provider makes their choice, and the decision is saved back to the patient’s chart to be signed as part of the standard clinic ordering workflow. All of these actions occur within the provider's existing EHR workflow.
Clinical Assistant currently integrates with Epic and Altera TouchWorks, with future plans to integrate with eClinicalWorks and athenahealth.
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*Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 2011; 122: 48–58.