By Staff Contributor

Siemens Healthcare of Malvern has announced a new IT system called CareXcell, which it says will help health care  providers improve long-term outcomes for patients while controlling costs.

Inspira Health Network, a charitable nonprofit health care organization in New Jersey, is the first provider to begin using the CareXcell cloud-based service, Siemens stated in a news release.

John Glaser, chief executive officer for Siemens Healthcare, said CareXcell offers health care providers a new strategy for shifting health management from reactive to proactive.  CareXcell consolidates patient data from disparate sources and clinical systems into a single patient-centered  repository through any health information exchange.

“CareXcell provides a collaborative framework for improving care delivery and monitoring across a community, integrating advanced workflow and event-processing technology with clinical evidence to help providers address patients’  health and risk factors in a timelier, more efficient manner,” said Glaser.

At Inspira Health Network, CareXcell will allow the organization to simplify workflow across its care team of more than 1,000 doctors and health care professionals.

The CareXcell cloud infrastruction will give them real-time decision support, identify care gaps, recommend evidence-based care plans and actionable interventions and document problems and goals.

Health care and the companies which service the industry are shifting from volume to value.

Siemens tapped Motive Medical Intelligence of San Francisco, Ca. to create preventive care plans for CareXcell. Siemens says MMI’s care plans offer patient-specific interventions for chronic conditions and risk reduction.  “Based on Siemens’ expertise and ability to act as a long-term partner, we have chosen CareXcell as a complete end-to-end solution to enable us to intervene sooner, manage chronic diseases better and keep people in South Jersey well longer,” Tom Pacek, vice president and chief information officer at Inspira Health Network, said in a news release.

“Our approach is three-fold,” Pacek said. “We are connecting high-risk patients with dedicated care management teams who coordinate across the continuum to reduce the total costs of care. We’re also managing rising-risk patients in a medical home model avoiding unnecessary, higher cost spending, and we are establishing easy-access care for our low-risk patients with a focus on keeping patients healthy within our health network.”

Siemens Healthcare is one of the world’s largest suppliers to the healthcare industry and a trendsetter in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, medical information technology and hearing aids.

More information on CareXcell can be found on Siemens Healthcare site here.