Empower & Transform the Data-Driven Health System
Built by MDClone with leading health systems around the globe, the ADAMS Center reimagines the way data is used to transform the health system, serving as the health system’s hub for empowering clinical teams to lead meaningful change to care delivery by dramatically streamlining data-related activity.
The hospital of the future requires data-driven decision making, an unfulfilled promise of the digital age. The now decades-long effort to collect information about operations and clinical practice, on a system and patient level, has left hospitals around the world, and importantly the talented staff at those hospitals, with robust information that holds keys to better performance: improved outcomes and lower costs, a win-win for the system and its key stakeholders, including staff and patients.
Hospitals are severely challenged, however, leveraging data in this way as data projects require months of effort with many dedicated resources and several bottlenecks along the way that too often discourage more activity.
What we first saw at Sheba and now at more health systems is the story of what happens when high-performing technology meets high-performing teams. The explosion of activity in the ADAMS Center within such a short amount of time excites me as the CEO of MDClone, but mostly excites me as a person who at some point, like everyone in the world, receives care. Hearing physicians talk about the way they have already changed the way they care for patients, and the dozens and dozens of more ideas that are already in the works, is why we’re here.
Ziv Ofek
Founder & CEO, MDClone
What our new ADAMS Center has demonstrated is the way a technology can profoundly change an organization’s culture. The ability for any health system to achieve excellence is rooted in what we’re seeing today.
Prof. Yitshak Kreiss
Director General, Sheba Medical Center
Ranked among top Hospital CEOs in the world by Newsweek.
The ADAMS Center aims to align the health system leadership and the front-line workforce towards the goal of increased volume of insight generation and the value those insights can deliver for hospital operations and ultimately patient health. With the theme of “increasing volume and value,” the ADAMS Center encourages staff to ask questions by ensuring those questions will turn into actions that impact day-to-day activities throughout the hospital.
What manifests as a process within the operations of the hospital, whether the way a surgery is conducted, a medication is administered, or a patient is transported between units, at some point almost universally begins with a question. Yet each process is ripe for opportunity to improve, and the hospital of the future is a learning health system, continuously improving through evidence-based practice.
Generating such evidence is a primary task of the ADAMS Center and must become a primary goal of the health system. Supporting the goal requires several commitments, primarily including personnel and technology. The personnel and technology of the ADAMS Center are multi-faceted, meant to engage the broader health system staff and demonstrate efficacy to stakeholders. Primarily, this revolves around two aspects:
Fulfilling these requires several steps, including collecting relevant data, organizing them for efficient analysis, making them accessible to clinical staff, aligning practice changes, and transparently disseminating progress to appropriate teams at all levels of the health system. This is the backbone of ADAMS – Ask, Discover, Act, Measure, Share – and is embedded within the framework of the ADAMS Center both as an operation and as a required technology platform for its success.
The ADAMS Center allows clinical staff to have dynamic interaction with health system data, with tools both for analysis, potential interventions, and ongoing measurement of project activity, as well as to oversee the operations of the Center itself. Dynamic interaction with data is made possible through the identification, curation and organization of patient data in such a way that supports real-time cycles of questions and answers by end users who are not exclusively data experts. In this way, whether staff is hands on the data or not, anyone in the health system can engage in the cycles of performance improvement across all phases of a project.
To facilitate rapid data exploration, MDClone built its ADAMS Platform which sits atop the MDClone ADAMS Data Lake. The ADAMS Platform contains several modules to enable an end user without advanced programming skills or database knowledge – primarily those with clinical backgrounds – to dynamically ask and answer questions, and then build and monitor interventions. Like the project phases of the ADAMS Center, the ADAMS Platform is split into five parts: Ask, Discover, Act, Measure, Share.
MDClone sought to build a data platform that reflected the temporal nature of medicine. MDClone’s approach is to organize data longitudinally within an ADAMS Data Lake. Within the Data Lake, data is actually stored longitudinally, not just visualized in a pre-built longitudinal environment. The idea is to capture any “event” on a patient’s timeline, organizing these events along a linear journey from birth to present day. Any source which produces data about individuals, and any type, be it clinical, financial, social, genomic, or wearable can be included. Leveraging MDClone’s NLP Studio within the data lake, unstructured data can be ingested as well. All data is harmonized with MDClone’s Semantic Engine, to ensure clinicians can engage with data in familiar terminologies.
The ADAMS Center Enterprise module (ACE) ACE is the cockpit to manage all of the ADAMS Center’s activity and to provide health system leadership and Satellites updates on volume and value. ACE contains a list of all active and completed projects, including an overview of the project, the staff members involved, the phase of a project, the projected value (for active projects) and the realized value (for completed projects). The software can be configured to show customized overviews of the project activity, broken down through several filters including Satellites involved, type of intervention, or potential lives impacted. In this way, ACE provides ADAMS Center leadership new metrics of performance improvement to report and a new vocabulary when communicating internally with Satellites, individual staff members, or with health system executive leaders. Such executive leadership can utilize ACE itself, including custom views focused on metrics of particular interest, and ADAMS Center more broadly, to catalyze a data-driven learning and improvement culture.
MDClone is the world’s leading provider of synthetic data for healthcare, enabling valuable patient data to be used to improve health. By protecting privacy of patients and not compromising on utility, the synthetic data goes beyond traditional methods of de-identification and can be leveraged in cases where privacy regulations prevent broad analysis of data. With more than seven years of experience in the market, MDClone has worked with a diverse range of people and organizations, from clinicians to students, hospitals to pharma, demonstrating how synthetic data can be used to improve system operations, increase research activity, and create unique partnerships.
A project within the ADAMS Center is the basis of the volume and value which defines the success of the ADAMS Center. Although staff engagement is important, ultimately, it’s about the number of projects – the volume – that serve as the key metric, with the goal to move projects from an idea to a measurable and potentially sharable impact – value – to health system performance. Explore more in depth overviews of projects, digging into the value – impact to quality of care, cost savings, operational efficiencies and beyond – led by clinical teams spanning nearly all departments.
Establishing the health system as the hub of innovation is at the core of the ADAMS Center,
ultimately to become part of a learning health system network.
With the ADAMS Center Global Catalog – a collection of ideas and implemented solutions generated by leading organizations globally – organizations can choose to contribute to and build upon the experience of the Network. This includes access to individuals who developed, evaluated and implemented new processes or protocols and the foundation – including not just the ideas but also the potential for data sharing, data engineering and process review – for implementing similar approaches in the local environment.
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