Mt. Sinai Hospital is using Skyscape to provide the software infrastructure and application that served as a base for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study. The goal of the two-year research project, titled Palm Risk-Outcomes Manager & Patient Tracker (PROMPT), was to determine how the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) by their physicians benefits cardiology patients and to integrate PDAs and other enterprise systems.
The PROMPT Program at Mt. Sinai, which ran from September 2000 to September 2002, included approximately 14,500 patients as well as 125 cardiologists, divided into three study groups, including one control group. The program requirements included meeting the specific needs of studying cardiovascular risk factors, such as cholesterol levels and blood pressure, and monitoring physician behavior. The solution used by the cardiologists allowed patient data to be collected on Palm Vx PDAs at the time of a clinical encounter relating to cardiovascular risk, displayed previously captured data, prompted physicians to counsel lifestyle changes, and calculated risk scores and target clinical parameters.
The Skyscape solution enabled physicians to collect data and transmit it to a central server utilizing an automated, bi-directional synchronization process that uploaded the user-collected data from a physician’s PDA and appended records in the network database, and downloaded demographics and appointments from the network database to the PDA. Additionally, the network database was able to receive data from hospital enterprise systems and create queries built to answer research questions, support project surveillance and administration, quarterly reports or chart extraction. This is the first time cardiologists have had access to dynamic content systems for their handheld computers.
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