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Patient-Reported Outcomes and AI in Pain Management

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Integrated pain management is a specialty that has grown in recent years. Patient-reported outcomes and AI in pain management can provide insights to improve treatment plans. During each visit to a clinician, patients complete assessments to inform their provider about their current conditions. Each of these assessments creates a profile for the patient about their current and ongoing symptoms. Each of these patient-reported outcomes is extremely useful in tracking the success of a treatment plan. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral factor in learning more about these outcomes. AI can be trained to learn how different factors in a patient’s treatment plan affect their outcomes.

With pain management, it is essential to assess each patient’s pain symptoms frequently. By digitally recording responses to patient assessments, these patient-reported outcomes can be tracked more efficiently. To provide more effective treatment plans, pain management providers are using patient-reported outcomes and AI more often.

How does AI in healthcare work?

AI starts with compiling lots of data. In pain management, each time a patient visits their physician, they fill out assessments about their current symptoms and pain levels since their last visit. The provider then takes the information, compiles it, and compares it to each patient’s recent medication and lifestyle changes. In addition to this, the patient may utilize physical therapy or behavioral health resources in their treatment plan. All of these factors come into play when a provider makes decisions about the patient’s ongoing treatment will be. What has worked for them in the past? Are they improving? What else can they try?

This is where AI comes into play. AI and machine learning can take all of these factors and learn what can be an effective treatment plan for each patient. By compiling this data, AI can infer from previous assessments what is more or less likely to work for that patient based on their historical data.

AI recognizes patterns in treatment plans as data becomes available. Using this information can make a well-defined course of action for the healthcare provider. By utilizing these patient-reported outcomes and AI in pain management settings, treatment plans become more successful in pain patients.

Why is Pain Management a focus for AI?

Many different healthcare specialties can use AI with patient-reported outcomes. However, pain management tends to include a myriad of external factors for each patient. Pain management can include patients with medication dependencies, behavioral health diagnoses, and chronic diseases. Because of these factors, it is difficult to accurately weigh each one as a patient treatment plan is formed.

Because the opioid epidemic is a continuing concern for healthcare providers, AI has come into play more heavily. Digital healthcare has become a key player in combating the opioid crisis with remote patient monitoring and risk assessments. Correct dosing for opioid prescriptions is a fine line between addiction and chronic pain in patients. This is why AI has become prevalent in managing opioid use in hospital settings in recent years.

It’s also important to note that pain management is a very iterative an ongoing treatment process, and can differ greatly between patients. For this reason, collecting patient-reported outcomes to derive treatment options has proven to be successful in recent years.

How can I get started using AI in my practice?

cliexa’s pain management platform (cliexa-Ease) incorporates patient assessments and utilizes them to create a comprehensive risk score for each patient. The Symptom Severity Score (FIBR), Dallas Pain Questionnaire (DPS), Medical Outcomes Survey (MOS Core, SF-36), and Pain Disability Index (PDI) are all incorporated into the platform.

As a provider, you can create a risk matrix based on your treatment preferences and utilize this digital tool to streamline patient assessments and risk. Determining risk of a patient is the cornerstone to their treatment plan. Risk assessments assist the healthcare provider to make decisions based on many different factors that can affect a patient’s overall risk. Also, by tracking medication adherence and compliance with each patient will allow providers to better track their symptoms over time. All of these features are included in the cliexa-Ease platform and can help you to better track patient outcomes using remote monitoring and integrated risk assessments.

Learn more about cliexa’s digital platforms.

 

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cliexa wins Department of Health & Human Services: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Step Up App Challenge.

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“cliexa’s vision is to be the state-of-the-art patient-reported outcomes and remote patient monitoring platform for comorbidities and real-time data provider for future medicine by increasing patient-provider engagement and compliance,” said Mehmet Kazgan, Founder & CEO of cliexa.

On March 5, 2019, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced three winners from Phase 2 of the AHRQ Step Up App Challenge, a competition that was designed to address the need for patient-reported outcomes (PRO) data into clinical care. Out of 10 semifinalists, and over 50+ applicants, cliexa® was selected as the 3rd place winner, and will receive $25,000 in prize money.

cliexa is a HIPAA-compliant cross-communication platform that improves the quality of care, clinical workflow, income generation, and time spent with patients. Patients will play a more significant role in their care with cliexa and will be able to make valuable correlations to causative factors for pain flare-ups through remotely reported outcomes. The discrete clinical data and patient-reported outcomes enable providers to improve clinical decision making while reducing liability and billing concerns with payors. These algorithms help providers respond more efficiently to new data so their patients will have fewer complications or side effects. Payors will be provided with longitudinal data to understand the necessary treatment decisions and patient status better. This will lead to improved communication and greater efficiency in the billing process while expanding the understanding of clinical methods that support patient well-being for future coverage improvements.

cliexa-EASE is a native application developed for Phase II of the AHRQ Step Up App Challenge, designed to track physical function, pain interference and depression using PROMIS measures. The application also has a patient reporting function where the patient can see the recorded scores over time and email this to other care team members, as well as a medication and complication tracking functionality. The application was tested for functionality on 6 patients at an integrated pain center, New Health Services, in Denver, Colorado. The application helps clinics fully leveraging PRO data to integrate validated clinical assessments to patient intake and remote-monitoring processes while collecting clinical metrics and compliance data for quality reporting. The discrete clinical data and PRO data enable providers to improve clinical decision making while reducing liability and billing concerns.

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We want to thank the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for rewarding us this opportunity. It has been a pleasure working with the folks who have dedicated their time and resources to ensure a smooth operation. Congratulations to all other companies who participated in the Step Up App Challenge. We believe programs of this nature foster an environment for technological innovation and provide a great path for advancing the healthcare industry.

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Jumpstart Foundry’s Top-of-Mind: Remote Patient Monitoring

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In 2018, cliexa was selected as one of Jumpstart Foundry’s portfolio companies. Jumpstart recognizes the value of recent healthcare industry trends including “Remote Patient Monitoring” and “Telehealth.” In their recent article, JSF featured cliexa in their discussion of these recent technological trends in healthcare.

One of the key challenges in healthcare that we are solving is being able to render results interpretable to patients and providers, while creating efficient, streamlined communication and workflow. cliexa’s Remote Monitoring platforms assist providers in making more informed decisions about treatment plans and enable them to respond more quickly to new data so their patients will have fewer complications or side effects. cliexa suite of products enables providers to deliver value-based care which translates to significant cost savings.

With clinically validated scoring models, our platform provides clinicians multiple reference points with correlations to identify the accuracy of patient reported data which will result in better patient and clinician experience and enables more responsive and preventive treatments.

Patients will play a greater role in their care with cliexa and will be able to make valuable correlations to causative factors for pain flare-ups through remotely reported outcomes. The discrete clinical data and patient-reported outcomes enable providers to improve clinical decision making, while reducing liability and billing concerns with payors. These algorithms help providers respond more efficiently to new data so their patients will have fewer complications or side effects.

Click here to learn more about cliexa’s Digital Solutions for Healthcare.

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Finalists Announced in the Health Tech Venture Challenge

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cliexa is a finalist for the Health Tech Venture Challenge

cliexa makes the finals of the Health Tech Venture Challenge, thanks to Advocate Aurora Health and MATTER.

On November 28, Advocate Aurora Health and MATTER announced the finalists for the Health Tech Venture Challenge. cliexa was selected as one of the five finalists who will have the opportunity to pitch their healthcare technology solutions to leaders and executives from Advocate Aurora Health at MATTER in Chicago on Tuesday, December 11, 2018.

The main goal of this challenge was “how might we transform the primary care experience?” cliexa submitted an application in November to highlight how our solutions can be applied in a primary care setting to transform and improve the patient and provider experience.

The cliexa platform enables physicians and hospitals to fully leverage patient-reported data to improve clinical care and outcomes while maximizing reimbursement. Healthcare providers can seamlessly leverage clinically validated scoring and assessment models and incorporate patient-reported data into EMR systems.

We are very much looking forward to the event. More updates to come following the finals in December.

Here is the link to the announcement: https://matter.health/posts/health-tech-venture-challenge-finalists-to-pitch-their-solutions-to-advocate-aurora-health-leaders/

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cliexa advances to Phase 2 of the AHRQ Step Up App Challenge

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cliexa is a semifinalist in the AHRQ's Step-Up Challenge

cliexa is a semifinalist in the AHRQ's Step-Up Challenge

cliexa is one of 10 companies out of 50+ advancing to Phase 2 of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)‘s Step-Up App Challenge with the “goal of developing an app that integrates standardized patient-reported outcomes (PRO) data into clinical care and research.”

For Phase 2 of the Step Up App Challenge, cliexa will design, develop, and demo our application using the FHIR technical specifications and PROMIS® resources for patient-reported outcomes with the hope to be selected as one of the three winners, who will get the opportunity to test their product in nine practice settings affiliated with MedStar Health in Washington, DC.

Read the blog announcing the 10 semifinalists from Director of the AHRQ, Gopal Khanna, M.B.A: https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/stepup-challenge-finalists.html

Check out our portfolio of patient-reported outcomes applications: cliexa Mobile

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