Unityware – The Missing Piece of the Puzzle

High Level Features and Benefits of Unityware in a Community Health Care Environment

The following point can not be stated too strongly: Medical information is out there already. There is no need to gather more information. Information already exists within hospitals, doctors’ clinics, pharmacies, state agencies, laboratories, dentist offices, etc… What must be done is to UNIFY those MANY systems into ONE system. Any new product or technology that promises to “fix the healthcare industry’ that requires humans to re-type data is bound to fail. The data is too great and too spread out for humans to tackle. An automated process must be used to solve the problem of bringing disparate data together in a meaningful way.

Unityware, has recently filed multiple patents on computer technology that can link disparate systems together in ways never previously imagined possible. This is not based on conjecture or wishful thinking. This technology is functioning TODAY in a live hospital, and can easily be demonstrated to anyone who is willing and ready to ‘throw off the shackles of the past and step into the future of computer technology within a healthcare environment.

Along those lines, Unityware has created and is patenting our CEMR System. CEMR stands for Community Electronic Medical Record. This system can be used within a hospital, within a community including one or more hospitals and numerous clinics and/or other health care providers, between geographically different hospitals, entire states, or across the entire United States. Scaling up to the highest level is not a problem for Unityware.

The features and benefits of the CEMR system include, but are not limited, to the following:

CEMR connects with any provider. We can connect all providers regardless of what system they are using at their hospital, clinic, pharmacy, state agency, etc.. Unityware is completely agnostic in terms of who it can link. It is simple for Unityware to connect to any software system regardless of vendor or version.

CEMR connects far easier than traditional methods. Using our first customer as an example, look below at the lower burden of implementation of a Unityware system vs. traditional methods.

Feature	Unityware	Traditional Interfaces
Cost	One cost to hospital which includes up to 100 connections.	Cost to hospital plus cost to connect each of the clinics or other healthcare providers (average cost $5k – $10k each which the doctors must pay).
Time to Install Core System	Weeks	Months or years
Time to Install Connections	10-15 Minutes	Weeks or Months
Flexibility to change connected systems	Upgrade system to new version?…No Problem. Unityware has ‘synthetic intelligence’ that senses change and makes adjustments.	Impossible – Any change or upgrade requires a new interface to be built resulting in weeks or months of programming and $5k-$10k in fees.
Ability to gain access to all data	Yes	No, only certain elements that the interfaces are allowed to access. Other data is left behind.
Ability to work with HL7	Yes, but it goes far beyond that. However, when working with HL7 connections the data is ‘buffered’ allowing for the elimination of cascading systems failures.	Yes, HL7 and only HL7 with all its many limitations.
Real-Time	Yes	Very limited
System agnostic	Yes	No
Unique and persistent Patient Identification	Yes	No

CEMR provides 96% + positive patient identity. In partnership with another company, we can match patients using a knowledge-based system that relies on 6 billion rows of historical data. This system assigns a unique and persistent identifier to every patient. It is unique to each individual and persistently follows them as they move and even if they change their names.

Therefore no medical records are lost as people’s lives change.

No record left behind – CEMR can retrieve and load legacy information from one system to another so that no records are left behind.

The CEMR System allows a hospital to meet ‘Meaningful Use’ of CPOE. This system allows inpatient and outpatient Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) in line with ARRA guidelines.

Doctors will actually use CEMR. Most systems require doctors to become technologists and still spend ten times the amount of time entering something that they can write on a piece of paper in 30 seconds. Unityware’s CEMR system is intuitive and has intelligence that fills in blanks and allows the provider to place orders in seconds. Don’t believe that?..put us to the test with a live demo at your office.

CEMR solution is secure and highly available — built from the ground up using industry leading CA Technologies.

The CEMR solution contains multiple levels of security. The system can be easily set to treat specific records differently, such as in the case of celebrity or domestic abuse restraining order cases. The data can also be easily made accessible based upon user permissions. Therefore, private medical information would be hidden from the billing clerk, and psychological or other sensitive can be excluded based on need-to-know requirements.

The CEMR system can be changed in a fraction of the time of other systems. Our technology provides that changes can be made to the system in far less time than any previous system. If a major change needs to be made, an authorized user can make that change. If it is of a larger nature then the response time and resultant costs are a fraction of what would normally be expected. With Unityware, days become hours, weeks become days, months become a week or two.

“Catch a thief” – The CEMR system makes it very easy to catch ‘frequent fliers’ or others who wish to scam the medical system in search of narcotics or other illegal or false activities.

Stay in Sync – With the CEMR design, medical information does not get out of sync as with traditional amalgamation architecture and does not have the security exposure of traditional federated designs.

Improve Patient ID protection – The CEMR solution can allow patients to be authenticated before entering them into a provider’s system. This prevents fraud, for example, should one patient try to falsely use another patient’s insurance.

Reduce lawsuit costs – The CEMR solution captures ‘snap shots’ each and every time patient information is accessed. This, frozen in time, snapshot gives providers protection as to exactly what a professional saw during a given instant for use in medical malpractice cases.

Access is not limited to providers with a system in place. The CEMR system can not only be used by providers with disparate systems, but also by providers without an EMR. Unityware can provide access to a ‘virtual clinic’ of information through a web browser interface.

Advanced search and graphics are reporting formats easily available. The CEMR System can provide multiple types of robust reporting to the providers. The CEMR system can provide the information in many ways through advanced searching and even graphically.

The CEMR System provides robust research capabilities. We can strip off personally Privileged & Confidential identifiable information and provide robust research capabilities through reporting both textually and graphically using advanced search techniques.

Example: A researcher might want to find the percentage of patients in 68 of Arkansas’ counties (but not the other 7) who are between the ages of 48 and 62 who have had a heart attack in the past three years, but who do not smoke.

This type of research results could be available in minutes.

The CEMR results at a fraction of the cost. Comparatively, far far less expensive than any competition that can even claim to achieve the same results.

The CEMR unifies but also isolates……What??? Unityware is a revolutionary tool for unifying systems, but it also isolates those systems from changes that occur in other changes. Using traditional methods it is possible to link multiple systems together. However, a change in System-A can cause a cascading problem and bring down System-D, System-F, and System-R.

Unityware eliminates that, so changes or upgrades can be made without ever recoding or testing the interfaces. We can do this without HL7 interfaces or with HL7 Interfaces.

The CEMR System Scales – Grow the system from one entity to hundreds or thousand without leaving behind any technology.