How Unified Patient Records Support Whole-Person Care

Last year, Franciscan Health, a 14-hospital system with facilities in Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan partnered with Innovaccer to create unified patient records to support whole-person care.

Whole-person care is a strategy that allows providers to treat patients by looking at their full spectrum of needs, including medical, behavioral, and socioeconomic. According to specialists, whole-person care is essential to improving overall patient health as it enables providers to know their patients, identify issues and create targeted treatments to fit their unique needs.

By examining their electronic health records and databases, Franciscan Health identified the need to create a unified patient record to track network performance, using insights to make care decisions.

“For us to deliver that information across from several non-aggregated data islands, we pulled together and created a unified patient record to understand what's happening with the patient across those spectrums of activity. That is what we talk about when we say a unified patient record.”