Breakthrough Applications
Lead Horse Technologies Delivers Breakthrough in Patient Safety
Health care providers know that rapid identification of an adverse drug reaction in a patient can make the difference between life and death. In simple cases, a physician can use computerized adverse drug event (ADE) references to help pinpoint the cause. But, for complicated cases involving multiple drugs and reactions, those ADE systems may fail. That’s where the Lead Horse Medloom clinical decision support system can be a lifesaver. Built on the high performance InterSystems CACHÉ object database, Medloom offers a unique search engine with a term expansion rationale that converts one clinical term, such as “liver failure,” into potentially hundreds of related clinical terms. Each term is then processed in parallel to find cryptically buried but medically significant drug safety information. As a result, CACHÉ-based Medloom:
- Returns all results from a complex request to a physician in seconds instead of weeks
- Provides increased value to the medical community by Integrating its “pharmacovigilance” into the results it delivers
- Significantly reduces the huge costs resulting from ADRS
Recently, Lead Horse made another leap forward in the area of strategic health care informatics. Artificial intelligence technology has been embedded within Medloom. This technology discovers meaningful red flags and removes false positives from safety registries used by health care providers worldwide.
“The pharmacovigilance and responsiveness provided by Medloom can make the difference between life and death. Our use of InterSystems technology has made it possible.”
John Armstrong
CEO
Lead Horse Technologies
