Outcome’s technology will be deployed to power a web-based registry that captures data surrounding the care of stroke patients, and submits it to the Department of Public Health (DPH). DPH commissioner Christine Ferguson believes this will help improve patient care by providing rapid and effective treatment for stroke.
The software, which meets the criteria set by the DPH’s health care division, will enable Massachusetts hospitals to receive stroke patients from Emergency Medical Services. The criteria requires that in order for a Massachusetts hospital to receive stroke patients the facility must be designated by the DPH as a Primary Stroke Service provider. In order to receive this designation, hospitals must collect and submit specific data.
An estimated 80% of strokes are ischemic, yet less than 5% of people with this disease receive thrombolytic agents within the recommended time frames.
Outcome’s platform will collect and submit data on all patients entering the hospital emergency department with symptoms of acute stroke that arrive within three hours of symptom onset and are discharged with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke.
