Venous Care Pathway Improvement
Description
Care pathways for venous diseases (e.g. deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, post thrombotic syndrome, superficial venous insufficiency, phlebolymphedema, and venous leg ulceration) are inconsistent and inefficient, leading to poor clinical outcomes and losing economic value statements for health payers and providers. Impact Health will work directly with VHA employees to standardize care protocols for selected venous diseases and implement a digital platform for Veterans, care providers, and hospital executives to support and view results of the improved protocol.
Detailed example
Evidence-based and cost-effective clinical care pathways, including risk stratification, guidance on the next diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, remote patient monitoring, and identification of barriers to access to care.
AI / analytics pattern
Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relationships.
Automation level / stage
a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.
Expected benefit
The digital platform empowers Veterans and providers with tools that include but aren’t limited to: track clinical outcomes, view longitudinal venous care progress, communicate remotely, manage care tasks for Veterans, access educational resources, prioritize Veterans based on status updates, collect research-grade clinical and economic data, and provide analytics of clinical and economic benefit of improved VHA venous pathways compared to the historical standard of care in VHA health systems. Hospital executives will also have access to a dashboard that demonstrates the Veteran population with venous diseases, population-level clinical outcome progress, recruitment statistics, facility economics, and more. Streamlining protocols for diagnosis, stratification, referrals, treatment, and post-treatment care will reduce health worker burden, create economic efficiencies, and significantly improve Veteran health outcomes. Providing a digital health platform that reinforces the protocols will facilitate better provider support for Veterans, empower Veterans to manage their own diseases, and will collect real-world data to validate the benefit of the improved protocol.
Controls / human review
ATO: Not reported; PIA: Not published