Clinical Systems
Our lab has developed a platform that supports the development of applications on top of our Epic electronic health record. The platform has real-time interfaces to various clinical systems to retrieve reports, images, labs, orders and metadata. We currently support two applications that use the platform: 1) the Integrated Diagnostic Report (IDR), which supports cancer diagnosis through the integration and reconciliation of clinical information, and 2) a tumor board application that expedites case preparation and review.
Tumor Board
Our tumor board application uses an expert ruleset to make generating cases for review as easy as entering a medical record number. Our logic analyzes the available clinical information for each case and automatically pulls the relevant parts into a tumor board case. Rather than coordinating via email and PowerPoint, cases are centralized in the application, allowing for more efficient preparation, communication, and presentation.
![tumor_board](https://bair.seas.ucla.edu/files/2020/11/tumor_board.png)
IDR
The UCLA Integrated Diagnostic Report supports cancer diagnosis through the integration and reconciliation of test results. Using a set of clinical triggers, the system automatically generates integrated reports to provide a holistic picture of each patient and automatically identifies incongruencies that require physician review. Launched in 2015, over 10,000 cases have been processed with the application.
![idr-1](https://bair.seas.ucla.edu/files/2020/10/idr-1.png)