U lor Your Health City Health and Hospitals Corporation and treatment options. that, using information technology, previous cases and The New York Health and treatment options. Isabel also provides histories of these questi Cue Shield began to add ctive analytics to determine th t's possible to give high-quality health income mostly uninsured, patients care to low sabel decision ecent advances in treatment. The support system has The company serves 1.3 million percent of who whom are range of facilities including 4 long-term cian order entry, along with and digital patient imaging Medicaid and 450,000 of about 60 uninsured. HHC employs 39, Part of the problem in fragmentation of informa 000 people in a care facilities, providing health care Is the One patient may be tic and treatment centers, 11 acute-care seen in different departments for different ailments that those caring for the patient can get a clear, com- prehensive view of each patient, HHC uses electro ) who would in is and 80 neighborhood clinics. HHC is the one-fifth of all general hospital admissions a clinic visits in New York City pitals, oal hospital system in the country treating about medical records that are collated across crime. Is predictin d commit a crime by city, gender, income iggest Isabel is not the only decision tool available to pro- third of emergency room and hospital-based fessionals in HHC. In its home health care division, HHC uses telemonitoring that allows personnel to track The company vator by investing prides itself on being a medical inno- patients with chronic illnesses, like diabetes. Diabetes in advanced, integrated technology is a disease afflicting about 50,000 of HHC's patients and it requires careful monitoring. Not only that, but ctive analytics st successful caree A information ther or not an ce through an something lik should complete n and become n acted on the d placed people a good or bad different from u can take tha facilities. HHC has high standards and is hout its often cited as a model of excellent hospital c on widely accepted performance measures such a are based s hospital-acquired infection rates and mortality rates.A fundamental factor in HHC's success is its $100 million investment in its IT infrastructure. The primary feature patients need help and support in managing their own illness, and telemonitoring helps. Using telemonitoring, health care professionals can monitor blood sugar levels and blood pressure as other health indicators. Telemonitoring is a way of of this system is a diagnosis decision support system keeping track of the vital signs of people while allow ing them to remain in their own homes. On a regula called Isabel. Isabel has a database with tens of thousands of diseases and thousands of drugs that can be accessed t using natural language-no keyboard involved. The database also contains information from medical text- books, journals, and other sources. take readings for blood pressure, pulse, oxygen and so on. The system also asks relevant questions ab ti swelling or bleeding or wound condition. The pa answers using the phone's touchpad. Telemonitorin different This is how lsabel works: The health care profes a cost-effective way to tell when something is w sional enters the patient's symptoms and instantly gets back a list of possible illnesses. Along with each pos- sible diagnosis comes a list of tests to be performed before the problem requires an emergency r nation systems e analytics? or worse. When the data are collected and com with all the other relevant information, healt