Gov't. doles out $16 million to deploy cloud-based CDS

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations (CMMI) awarded Mayo Clinic, Philips and the United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group more than $16 million to investigate how cloud-based technology can improve care delivered to Medicare beneficiaries in intensive care units.

More than one-quarter of Medicare beneficiaries admitted to ICUs are the victims of preventable treatment errors, according to a Dec. 17 statement. In an attempt to reduce error rates, the money will allow several healthcare organizations to experiment with a Mayo-developed, cloud-based clinical decision support system (CDS) using the Andover, Mass.-based health IT vendor’s products, including the Intellibridge Enterprise interoperability platform and IntelliVue monitors.

The CDS will be deployed in four hospital systems, which will train a total of 1,440 ICU providers to use the tool intended to organize vast amounts of information collected by disparate health IT systems. CMMI estimated that the project could save a total of $80 million.