ePhysicians Office, Inc. offers a suite of unique services which are unavailable elsewhere within the field of medical informatics. Via a patented e infrastructure, the tenets of rigorous evidence-based decision making - generally regarded to be the domain of academic institutions and biostatisticians - have successfully been democratized and made available to all sectors of the health care community.
The initial step in development of an evidence-based tool is the appropriate assembly of prospectively acquired data. The web side allows the user, from any Internet access, to build a custom template, which automatically accrues data. The data reflects a user-initiated and developed series of variables, variable choices and all potential outcomes associated with an event. The completed template is a statistically rigorous Bayesian-based mathematical model, collaboratively developed by the user-client "subject matter experts" together with our physicians in that medical specialty.
Reiterations and modifications to the model can then be independently performed, and validity rechecked, on-line, solely by the user-client.
The data, so assembled and accrued, can be monitored for statistical significance, which is displayed in graphic form. At a certain point, the template becomes a bonafide artificial intelligence tool, which gains in intelligence automatically as more data is submitted.
Key Features:
Incorporation of Bayesian probability into a functional web-enabled model.
Refinement of probabilities of various outcome alternatives - not simply their presence or absence - by addressing independent criteria that lead to a cumulative result in real time.
Facilitates customization of all contributory evidence-based data at the user interface. The database thereby created has global applicability yet local administration.
Entering data for creation of the template does not require an expert in the field, nor familiarity with information technology/knowledge engineering.
Serves to create and support industry standards via a fully transactional i strategy for any given business scenario such as utilization management.
Ability to create new subsets of questions and answers with their corresponding weighted averages or entirely new algorithms using the template.
Changing one particular answer within a typical 'if...then' software decision tool requires backtracking. The functionality of ePhysicians Office, Inc.'s tabular analysis allows for changes in a single answer anywhere in the algorithm followed by immediate recompilation of probabilities of all outcomes.
These concepts of unique design and technology have been forged into patented software at ePhysicians Office, Inc.
The result is substantial benefit to the client in service, outcome and cost.