Ambient Clinical Analytics
Ambient’s healthcare data visualization solution changes the way providers operate by providing operational and clinical efficiency. This Minnesota-based company in Rochester delivers healthcare data visualization and surveillance tools to hospitals and health systems to reduce overall health care costs and improve patient outcomes. The software uses licensed Mayo Clinic technologies, which include over 1,200 clinically vetted rules and algorithms, to give care providers real-time access to point-of-care data visualization, situational awareness of a patient’s total condition, and “smart” notifications for conditions such as Sepsis and others. CERTAIN minimizes preventable death, disability and expensive complications in patients around the world.
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- Business Type:
- Software vendor
- Industry Type:
- Medical Monitoring
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
About Us
Ambient has achieved FDA Class II clearance, CE Marking, ISO 13485:2016 Certification, and is accepted by the Patient Safety Movement. Our healthcare data visualization technology delivers clinical efficiencies that free physicians, nurses, and other clinical team members to spend more time with patients instead of clicking around for information. Ambient’s healthcare data visualization provides iconic representation of patient data to enhance provider efficiency and situational awareness to drive better outcomes, save lives and put the joy back in practicing medicine.
Our Story
The Ambient Clinical Analytics Real Time Health System Story
I first met Al Berning in 2010 on the grounds of St Mary’s hospital in Rochester, while Al was a Mayo entrepreneur in residence. My colleagues and I had just finished developing and evaluating our very first version of AWARE. We knew we had created an innovative and game changing solution for providers that would drive organizations to become real time health systems. We felt on top of the world because we could now use AWARE to filter through the noise in the EMR and direct our attention straight to the data we had identified as being essential for the timely management of critically ill patients.
Prior to AWARE, we spent hours in a quiet back room off the main ICU clinical areas, scouring through the EMR for the information we needed to develop situational awareness for each of our patients. With those first versions of AWARE we were testing the efficacy and safety of treating a limited number of patients with a filtered data set and were extremely satisfied with the results. The widespread introduction of AWARE to our clinical practice coincided with the release of the first generations of the iPad and later the iPad Mini. Loaded with a suitable VPN connection, we were now liberated entirely from the back-room routine of data abstraction and synthesis and had the ability to go directly to the bedside. The ability to speak with a patient, look them in the eye and at the same time, using data visualization to quickly access their relevant clinical data in AWARE, on a handheld device, was magical and allowed us to function as a real time health system!
We had unlocked the data contained in the EMR and transformed it into real time health information doctors and nurses could act on while standing at the bedside of the critically ill patient. We immediately knew the importance of this innovation for patient care in any unit of a hospital and were convinced that we had something profound to share with the world. Like all great enthusiasts, we had difficulty containing our excitement and distilling down the essence of our innovation for anyone unfortunate enough to sit across a table from us! Despite our verbosity and enthusiastic proclamations, Al quickly recognized the value of what we accomplished and how AWARE would decrease provider fatigue, reduce errors, and save lives. With his easy mid-western competence and history of success he was the ideal partner to bring AWARE to market.
Nearly 10 years later, our relationship is still going strong. Al and the Ambient Clinical Analytics team have done a tremendous job guiding our innovations through patent filings, regulation approvals, funding rounds, product development, sales and customer support. In retrospect, although we knew we had created something special, we had no idea exactly how much the AWARE solution would positively impact patient care and health care organizations by allowing provider organizations to move towards a real time health system.
Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare
Ambient Clinical Analytics uses lean six-sigma in healthcare and real-time analytics to improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs through real-time clinical analytics solutions.
The Ambient Clinical Analytics team has over three decades of experience in implementing lean quality programs in medical technology, software, storage, and semiconductor technology products.
Implementing Ambient’s Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare Solutions provides these benefits:
- Continuous flow of work
- Clinical process variation control
- Error reduction and avoidance
- Eliminating delays and waste
Ambient Clinical Analytics Solutions are Designed to fit a Hospital’s Lean Quality - Six Sigma Programs
Ambient’s solutions dove-tail with an overall Lean Six Sigma quality program and are proven to reduce errors and improve efficiency as demonstrated in Mayo Clinic published research. Our Clinical Decision Support and predictive analytics solutions are a subscription-based pricing model that will show an immediate ROI payback. You can rely on Ambient to seamlessly integrate with your hospital’s EHR and significantly enhance your Lean Six Sigma in healthcare program. To learn more about our solutions and how they can benefit your hospital or health system contact us today.