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Enabling Optimized Clinical Workflow

WellSheet: Enabling Optimized Clinical Workflow

 Craig Limoli, Co-founder & CEO, WellSheet
With the increasing demand for quality care, practitioners are focusing more on improving their practice performance. The need to manage the practice efficiently has driven demand for optimized clinical workflows driven by technology. Craig Limoli, while working as a former strategy consultant in the IBM Watson Health division, found that the new healthcare technologies, while powerful, tended to fall short in understanding physicians’ needs for improved workflow. The predicament inspired Limoli to team up with Justin Larkin, an MD/MBA and an expert in healthcare solution design, and establish WellSheet, a company that excels in delivering analytics for practitioners to optimize clinical workflow. WellSheet’s platform touts an intuitive UI, designed to passively collect a physician’s actions throughout the decision-making process, capturing the clinical mindset, and uses deep-learning techniques that make the platform even more effective over time.

Focused on physicians’ productivity, WellSheet ensures that the practitioners get the required information conveniently and consistently. “Applying the latest developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand practitioners at a deeper level, WellSheet creates a personalized experience for physicians,” says Limoli, Co-founder and CEO at WellSheet. The WellSheet platform combines the physician’s practicing process, the patient’s medical history, and clinical practice guidelines to present a customized, one-sheet view of a patient that fits a care provider’s workflow, instead of the current multi-screen, non-contextualized data directly from the EHR. Further, partnerships with major EHR vendors have enabled WellSheet’s solution to exist within the EHR, which is designed to fit into a physician’s workflow seamlessly, increasing the convenience.

WellSheet’s solution is focused on areas where there is more time spent by a physician. Chart review, order-entry, and documentation are some of the main areas of physician workflow that WellSheet has introduced improvements for. Once the patient data is recorded, WellSheet’s solution runs the analytics by taking into consideration all the patient information and clinical guidelines to predict the required data. With this information, practitioners can identify the quality requirements and deliver optimum treatment for effective health outcomes.

For the documentation part of the workflow, WellSheet predicts the relevant information—comprising the data that exists in a patient’s record and the observations made—that has to be included in the physician's notes. WellSheet pre-generates this content and fills in the gaps for the physician’s interpretation. With a simplified integration leveraging the latest APIs from the EHR vendors, WellSheet enables a physician to easily access their interface, unlike the other solutions in the market which require them to navigate a new portal and re-identify the patient in a separate system. With a growing customer base, WellSheet can procure particulars of patients and relevant big data, which are then integrated into the physician workflow.

For instance, WellSheet deployed their solution for a neurology clinic in Wyoming. The practice had challenges in dealing with constantly changing neurology guidelines. WellSheet integrated the specific neurological guidelines into their own algorithms that allowed the practice to easily find those that are applicable to a particular patient. WellSheet’s solution helped to proactively identify the most relevant guidelines, intelligently directing the physicians to make informed decisions quickly in order to deliver quality care.

WellSheet is expanding their team to deliver their solution for practitioners who are struggling with the existing EHRs. Equipped with a team of talented developers and machine learning experts, WellSheet is creating a differentiated product for practitioners to deliver care swiftly by leveraging the company’s predictive capabilities.

Top 10 Healthcare Startups - 2017

Company
WellSheet

Management
Craig Limoli, Co-founder & CEO, WellSheet

Description
Offers a solution to optimize clinical workflow and improve care quality when treating complex patients by organizing diverse information with machine learning

WellSheet News

Wellsheet AI-Powered Smart EHR UI Delivers Usability and ROI

NEWARK - Wellsheet Inc., the leading Smart EHR UI provider, has delivered the first tangible ROI from predictive clinical workflows that reduce health care worker burnout, increase usability and patient throughput, and allow clinicians to redirect their time from Electronic Health Record (EHR) interactions to improve the quality of patient care. Wellsheet also announced the availability of new Large Language Model (LLM)-driven features to supercharge clinical workflows and increase care team productivity.
~$8M per Year ROI per Hospital and a 8X+ ROI
“Wellsheet vastly improves the clinician experience with the EHR and helps improve operational efficiency for hospitals. Wellsheet achieved a client-reported 16.3% reduction in average length of stay, coupled with improved quality metrics and increased access to high quality care for patients. Altogether, this amounts to an ~$8M per year ROI per hospital and at least an 8X ROI,” said Craig Limoli, Wellsheet CEO and Founder. “No other AI-powered clinical productivity offering enables the whole care team to do full chart review and deliver a strong ROI while successfully addressing clinician burden. Generative AI is rapidly improving the way physicians practice medicine, and access to the full patient chart via standard APIs enables Wellsheet to provide a safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence solution with the full referenceability clinicians need to build trust in AI.”
16.3% Decrease in Length of Stay from 5.66 days to 4.74 days
"Concord Hospital has been engaged in a strategic campaign to reduce our average length of stay with Wellsheet as our partner. We have achieved a 16.3% decrease in length of stay from about 5.66 days to about 4.74 days, and delivered an impressive ROI, resulting from a decrease in costs associated with extended stays and an increase in revenue associated with additional admissions,” said Dr. Christopher Fore, Chief Quality Officer, Concord Hospital. “Wellsheet is used by our clinicians for mobile chart review, real-time notifications, care team collaboration, handoff, and discharge planning. The data visualizations Wellsheet creates are incredible and the increase in our patient throughput has improved access and decreased wait times. We are very pleased with the efficiency, satisfaction and financial results we’ve achieved with Wellsheet.”
Wellsheet’s highly scalable, predictive and customizable AI-powered Smart EHR UI assembles the most important clinical content from an EHR and other sources into a single view needed to quickly make the right treatment decision. Health systems are deploying Wellsheet at enterprise scale and experiencing rapid ROI realization and substantial improvements in clinical workflows, patient care and throughput when deployed as part of a comprehensive clinical productivity and experience optimization program.
Faster Deployment, Diagnosis and Discharge
Wellsheet clients now have access to LLM-generated handoff summaries, eliminating manual and redundant documentation typically required of doctors and nurses. The company’s Smart EHR UI uses LLMs to summarize data enabling clinicians to interact directly within Wellsheet’s Clinical Views, juxtaposing patient data with the most relevant Clinical Calculators and treatment guidelines. Its AI-powered discharge planning workflows automate processes across multidisciplinary care teams reducing length of stay. By applying AI at each point of inpatient workflow bottlenecks, Wellsheet has had a dramatic impact on patient throughput and ROI.
Wellsheet is EHR-agnostic so clinicians can have a consistent user experience across multiple EHRs or when transitioning from one EHR to another, substantially reducing productivity losses associated with migration. And Wellsheet can surface critical healthcare data in real time from sources other than EHRs, including Clinical Decision Support content and Patient Data Exchanges.
Availability and Pricing
Wellsheet’s Smart EHR UI is generally available, can be deployed in weeks, and clinician training takes only minutes. Health systems receive, at no charge, frequent, ongoing seamless product upgrades requiring minimal IT support. Pricing is based on a per-site annual fee that is a small fraction of the ROI generated by the technology.
• Watch a video: Optimizing Discharge Planning to Achieve ROI
• Watch a video: Clinician Productivity and Experience in Ambulatory Setting
• Read the blog: AI for Healthcare Needs a Smart EHR UI
• Read a case study: Reducing time in the EHR by 40%