Health Quest sets out to boost participation in clinical trials with IBM Watson

Press releases may be edited for formatting or style | March 22, 2019 Artificial Intelligence

Additionally, in a study with the Highlands Oncology Group and Novartis , use of IBM Watson for Clinical Trial Matching successfully cut the time to screen patients for trial eligibility by 78 percent, reducing processing time from 1 hour and 50 minutes to 24 minutes.

The use of IBM Watson for Clinical Trial Matching further scales Health Quest's use of AI within its system. Health Quest uses Watson Care Manager to identify, categorize and rank relevant concepts from unstructured care management notes and identify gaps in care, track individual touch points and refine its process to improve system-wide population health. In the health system's first year working with Watson Care Manager, Health Quest earned a 1.65 percent merit-based payment bonus from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and generated $3.7 million in new revenue by more-efficiently tracking patients in need and prompting them to be seen for routine care. Health Quest is investigating further AI applications in its journey to be a leader in the use of advanced technology to improve the care of patients and support providers.

About Health Quest
Health Quest is a family of integrated nonprofit hospitals and healthcare professionals in the Hudson Valley and northwest Connecticut. Health Quest combines talented physicians, state-of-the-art technology and compassionate caregivers dedicated to providing quality care across a variety of service lines, including Neurosciences, Oncology, Cardiovascular, Women/Children's and Orthopedics.

Health Quest has a network of convenient locations throughout Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, Putnam and northern Westchester counties in New York as well as western Connecticut, including four award-winning hospitals —Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck, Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel, Sharon Hospital in Sharon, Conn. and Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie —plus multiple Health Quest Medical Practice primary care and specialty locations, two Urgent Care locations and affiliates including the Thompson House, a 100-bed skilled nursing facility on the Northern Dutchess Hospital campus, Health Quest Home Care and The Heart Center, a leading provider of cardiology services in the region.

About IBM Watson Health
Watson Health is a business unit of IBM that is dedicated to the development and implementation of cognitive and data-driven technologies to advance health. Watson Health technologies are tackling a wide range of the world's biggest health care challenges, including cancer, diabetes, drug discovery and more.


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