The Lifecom Technology

The advanced medical analytic software have been created by Lifecom, a Portland Oregon medical software company. This software is the critical enabler needed to make the enhanced team concept viable.

An obvious question is why not use an existing electronic health record system or decision-support program in place of completing development of a an advanced concept system? With respect to the use of an EHR in this role, most clinicians have found that EHR's increase charge capture and billing at the expense of bedside clinical care. This fact and their high costs account for the higher adoption rates seen in hospitals compared to primary care.

Current electronic medical records systems (EHR's) simply are not designed to support such a model and attempts to adapt them to perform some of these functions have failed repeatedly.

EHR's are extremely costly and severely limited in their ability to increase safety and efficiency which must be central goals of alternative care delivery models. EHR's store medical records, they do not provide the dynamic decision analysis needed to safely expand the role of non-MD care givers.


EHR's fail clinically because they:

  • Document business practices but not clinical decision processes.
  • Do not improve patient safety.
  • Do not improve communication.
  • Do not provide an integrated personal health record.
  • Do not facilitate preventive care or chronic disease management.
  • Do not optimize ambulatory team management.
  • Do not reduce costs.
  • Shift attention from the bedside to the computer screen.


    Lifecom’s Solution to EHRs

    Lifecom's intelligent (active computing) clinical care software overcomes EHR limitations. Lifecom has succeeded where EHR's have failed because the system was not built around business practices but rather clinical care.

    This advanced concept medical analytic system is designed around the concept of Active Computing - real-time, dynamic, independent analysis of all incoming clinical data in support all aspects of clinical care decision-making for all levels of care providers.

    It is the first system of its kind based upon an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) Program called the Adaptive Knowledge Engine (AKE), a patented technology.

    Because all input data to a patient's health record using this system was designed from the outset to function in concert with the AI, the data compartmentalization which limits EHR's is absent in the Lifecom system. The AKE, built into a graphically rich intuitive data capture and documentation system, functions as a vetted institutional memory automating critical educational, reporting and oversight functions.

    Aggregate knowledge programmed into the system provides a floor, or safety net, elevating the minimum standard of care to a level more proximate to that provided by very experienced clinicians. This system integrates registry, decision support, skills support, best practices and data reporting into a single entity.

    Such point-of-care knowledge delivery addresses quality improvement goals and potentially reduces the need for retrospective oversight. Such a system also provides an unprecedented and unmatched framework for research and CQI/PI into clinical care.


    Lifecom's System:

  • Provides continuous evidence-based, artificial intelligence analysis of the complete medical record to reduce waste and medical errors.
  • Utilizes the complete patient digital history in its analysis and recommendations.
  • Maximizes the safe utilization of non-physician clinicians to the full extent of their scope of practice.
  • Provides an intelligent personal health record, empowering patients to safely manage their chronic illnesses.
  • Integrates all aspects of the patient's health management into one coherent picture.
  • Automates key business and billing processes.
  • Provides clinicians with real-time problem-based learning.
  • Stores data in a clinically relevant format optimized for process improvement and medical research.
  • Works on a wide range of platforms including workstations, laptops, tablet PC's, cell phones, etc.

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