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[[male speaker] Intermountain is an integrated healthcare delivery system]
[that serves Utah and southern Idaho.]
[Our mission is to provide better health to our community and to do it at lower cost.]
[[Dr. Charles Sorenson - President & CEO - Intermountain Healthcare]]
[[Vishal Wanchoo - President & CEO - GE Healthcare Information Technology]]
[The vehicle for transformation of this industry is information technology,]
[and what we want to try to achieve is delivery of the highest quality healthcare]
[at the lowest possible cost and make it accessible for everyone across the world.]
[[Dr. Todd Alan - Emergency Physician - Intermountain Medical Center]]
[To use information to better the care of the patient, just help standardize the baseline care,]
[the things that are not different about a patient.]
[Unnecessary variation is eliminated, costs go down, safety goes up,]
[and ultimately, the clinician can spend their time and their energy]
[really focusing on the unique aspects of that patient's care,]
[which would be a huge, huge change in medicine.]
[Intermountain has been a world leader in using clinical information systems.]
[They started back in the '70s.]
[[Sorenson] How relatively simple medicine was then.]
[The number of appropriate drugs that we learned about then was in the low hundreds.]
[Now they're in the thousands.]
[Put together with the number of different specialists]
[that might interact in the care of any individual patient,]
[it makes this so complex that no single clinician could possibly bring all that data together]
[Medical knowledge is changing very rapidly,]
[and what we can do is provide the latest and greatest information with the latest protocols]
[and really embed it into the work flow of the nurses and physicians.]
[I don't know that I have ever seen a partnership like this GE and Intermountain partnership.]
[It has the chance to produce an electronic medical record unlike anybody else]
[or any other partnership might in the world.]
[Just sharing with the patients why it makes a difference to them]
[to take their asthma controller every day.]
[Even though they might not have symptoms, you can say,]
["Here's our data. Look at the reduced chance that you'll end up in the emergency room]
[if you use that controller every day."]
[It needs to be about helping the clinician and the patient find the right decision]
[and find the right therapy for their unique presentation of that illness.]
[That's the vision that we have of bringing the data together at the point of care.]
[That patient gets the care they need when they need it,]
[how they need it, at the right cost.]
[Medicare costs nationwide can be reduced by about a third]
[if everybody in the country practiced medicine]
[the way it's practiced at Intermountain Healthcare.]
[What we're doing is in fact transformational.]
[It's really going to change healthcare delivery around the world.]
