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Hospital pharmacists play a vital role in medication safety and the prevention of adverse drug events, which is why regulatory agencies recognize the need for 24-hour pharmacist medication review. With Avel eCare pharmacy, hospitals and health systems can fill their staffing gaps and reduce burnout by having access to Avel’s pharmacy team available around-the-clock to provide excellent patient care.

This team of licensed, hospital-trained pharmacists are experienced in clinical settings, familiar with appropriate monitoring parameters for drug efficacy and side effects, manage fluid compatibilities, and understand hospital workflows. In partnership with local care teams in 153 sites, Avel eCare pharmacists have conducted 32,561 interventions, helped facilities avoid 7,452 adverse drug events, and provide a 17-minute average turnaround time. In addition, these services ensure:

Accurate and efficient medication order entry, review and clinical pharmacy services whenever you need it

Reduced risk of medication errors and adverse events

Compliance with regulations and your medication practices

About Avera eCare:

Avera eCARE® is a national leader in virtual health care with a proven 25-year record in visionary thinking. We’re using innovation to find new ways to connect our specialty care providers to health systems — both large and small.

Product Description:

Andor Health was born over 4 years ago with a single mission; to fundamentally change the way in which care teams, patients, and families connect and collaborate. By harnessing the latest innovations in OpenAI/GPT models, our cloud-based platform unlocks data stored in source systems - such as electronic medical records - to deliver real-time actionable intelligence to care teams within ubiquitous virtual collaboration platforms like Zoom. By perfecting communication workflows, our platform accelerates time to treatment, decreases clinician burnout, and drives better patient outcomes.

Healthcare institutions and providers use ThinkAndor® to enable providers to configure patient and clinician interactions with ubiquitous team collaboration platforms. This eliminates the need to manage added applications. ThinkAndor® enables a frictionless virtual interaction allowing physicians and patients to communicate without being distracted by disjointed technologies during a virtual consultation.

ThinkAndor is the only integrated virtual collaboration platform that can truly bring together all aspects of outpatient, inpatient, post-acute and at home virtual care collaboration through the 5 Pillars of Virtual Health: Virtual Visits, Virtual Hospital, Virtual Patient Monitoring & Care Management, Virtual Team Collaboration, and Virtual Community Collaboration. 

Features include:

Virtual visits launched from the EHR
Voice-to-text clinical notes
Real-time alerts and notifications
Secure collaboration channels
ThinkAndor® AI Bot provides relevant content and clinical context to visits and care teams
Device-agnostic virtual rounding, nursing, sitting and remote consults to power the virtual hospital
Remote specialty consults such as Tele Stroke, Tele Psych, and Tele ICU
Access to a virtual on-demand network
Multi-room/patient virtual sitting for a variety of risk types
Virtual nursing to address staffing shortages

In 2020, Microsoft M12 took an investment position in Andor Health and works very closely to optimize virtual interactions leveraging OpenAI and GPT. Since then, Andor Health has grown to serve over 70,000 providers and over 500 hospitals leveraging the Andor Health platform across the US, Canada, and UK. Orlando Health, Medical University of South Carolina, Tampa General Hospital, Yale New Haven, and the National Institutes of Health are among some of the most notable. You may find some of our most prestigious partners here, https://andorhealth.com/partners.html.

Most Importantly, Black Book has ranked Andor Health as the #1 Virtual Care Collaboration Solution with the Highest Client Satisfaction in 2023! Black Book Market Research used 18 key performance areas of operational excellence to rank Virtual Care Solutions vendors, and recognized Andor Health as the Highest in Client Satisfaction.  More importantly, Black Book reached out to nearly 1000 provider organizations, hospitals, and health systems to perform this independent market evaluation with Andor Health taking  #1 in 13/18 key performance indicators across all 5 pillars of virtual health & collaboration! This success is a proven indicator of Andor Health’s focus to empower clinicians and care teams with distinct, AI-powered virtual collaboration experiences.

About Andor Health:

At Andor Health, our mission is to change the way care teams connect and collaborate. By harnessing machine and human intelligence, our cloud-based platform unlocks data stored in electronic medical records to deliver real-time actionable intelligence to care teams – both inside and outside of their enterprise. By optimizing communication workflows, our solutions accelerate time to treatment, decrease clinician burnout, and drive better patient outcomes. Built on an AI/ML framework, healthcare institutions and clinicians can self-configure the signals and workflow actions as you would any device connected to the internet, and personalize the intelligence they need at the right moment in time to provide better care.

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Product Capabilities

Access & Scheduling

ThinkAndor® supports multilingual and omni-channel virtual visit sessions between patients and providers without the need for downloading an app. Via Andor’s digital front door, we provide patients with a model for navigating to the appropriate line of care through a first in the industry use of OpenAI/GPT capabilities. Patients can either schedule a synchronous virtual visit session or choose from a variety of asynchronous options. Patients can also add family members or caregivers in the virtual wait room and providers can invite colleagues for multi-disciplinary calls using the embedded ThinkAndor®AI Bot within the session. This whole process helps to improve how both patients and providers are brought together.

Intake & Virtual Waiting Room

ThinkAndor® supports a comprehensive virtual waiting room with a fully configurable set of patient intake and assessment forms. In this process, providers can push patients to complete a device and browser check, review their symptoms, complete inclusion/exclusion criteria and upload images. Shortly before the visit, patients can add family members or care givers and improve accessibility through features like closed captioning. Providers/care team members can track a patient’s progress in the queue and alert them when the provider is ready to begin the session.

Virtual Encounter

ThinkAndor® provides highly-resilient video call capabilities with the ability to toggle to phone/audio and support multi-party sessions. The presence of the ThinkAndor®AI Bot during visits acts to track time, surface clinically relevant content for the clinician, and create SOAP notes. Additionally, ThinkAndor® can support asynchronous communications for lower acuity conditions. These can be escalated to synchronous calls if a clinician determines that the patient’s status has degraded.

Diagnosis & Documentation

ThinkAndor®’s bidirectional integration with the client EHR allows users to leverage existing patient demographic/medical information and upload new documentation. Generative AI curates the content and context for the clinician from the virtual experience for clinical documentation prep and decision making. The ThinkAndor®AI Bot also facilitates an ambient experience in the virtual visit and captures the voice of the clinician to generate clinical documentation for the EHR, including SOAP notes. The dashboard allows clinicians to both monitor active signals from patient inputs and devices as well as review past documentation in the patient details. This improves workflow orchestration and enables faster interventions to yield improved patient outcomes.

Billing, Orders, & Follow Up

ThinkAndor® has the ability to support eligibility, payment processing – including payment plans & copays, prescriptions, labs, orders, and referrals through third-party integrations and core host systems such as the client’s EHR. Relevant information from orders can be surfaced by the ThinkAndor®AI Bot and brought to the attention of providers through preconfigured alerts and escalation pathways. Because the ThinkAndor®AI Bot starts the session, it also captures the timing of the experience and the documentation to support billing for that particular visit. Post-visit, ThinkAndor® continues the experience by reaching out to the patient to ensure compliance with their care plan and any follow ups that may be required.

Technical Support

Andor Health provides both remote and on-site technical support as needed by customer institutions. Andor Health maintains a help desk to receive service-related inquiries from the client via designated means during the client’s business hours, excluding Andor Health observed holidays, and Andor provides clients with extended support outside of business hours via telephone for critical issues. Per the specific implementation and the client’s needs, Andor can stand up educational materials and assign the appropriate routing for patient concerns.

Flexible Staffing

Through ThinkAndor®’s native capabilities and deep integrations with staffing partners, Andor can help fill chronic staffing shortages and address emergencies like burst capacity scenarios. For virtual nursing, virtual sitting, remote consults, and other bespoke virtual hospital use cases, including telestroke, telepsych, and virtual hospitalists, Andor can either leverage resources from other facilities within a health system or bring in credentialed resources from third parties. This both fills certain specialties which users may not already have staffed and allows for health systems to reduce costs by better matching resources to current capacity.

Analytics

Andor Health uses PowerBI to provide robust analytics such as provider utilization/productivity, average time per visit, most commonly treated conditions, resolution vs. escalations, volume by day and time, and patient feedback. Andor Helath is also pioneering the use of OpenAI and GPT to provide insights and analytics along a patient’s care plan so that as data comes through, ThinkAndor™ can provide predictive analysis on the outcome of the patient.

Use Cases

Description:

Antimicrobial Stewardship

Avel eCare Pharmacy also offers providers the support they need to create, implement and maintain an antimicrobial stewardship plan. When customers take advantage of our Antimicrobial Stewardship services they’ll have the expert oversight needed to:

Improve the use of antimicrobial medications
Enhance patient outcomes
Reduce resistance to antibiotics

Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that all health care settings use antimicrobials judiciously to reduce the likelihood of antimicrobial resistance.

Look to our expert pharmacists to:

Verify that antimicrobials prescribed for common infections (urinary tract infection, pneumonia, skin and soft tissue infection, clostridium difficile, methacillin-resistant staph aureus, etc.) comply with standards, clinical guidelines and protocols in your institution
Follow culture results to ensure the organism is covered by the antimicrobial regimen and to suggest a more narrow-spectrum treatment, if appropriate
Ensure appropriate dosing of agents based upon renal and hepatic function
Provide patient-specific pharmacokinetic dosing, such as aminoglycosides or vancomycin

If a facility does not have an on-site pharmacist, Avel eCare Pharmacy can also complete an antibiotic review within 48 hours to achieve compliance with the antibiotic time out.

Consultative

Enhance your Avel eCare Pharmacy experience with advanced two-way video technology. When you take advantage of our live audiovisual and still image services, you can support pharmacy services with:

Patient discharge consultations
Remote supervision of nurse sterile medication preparation
Remote supervision of nurse automated dispensing cabinet refills
Verification of medications removed from pharmacy after-hours
Identification of patient medications brought from home
Video consultations between Avel eCare Pharmacy staff and your health care professionals

Outpatient

Support medication safety and pharmacy services at your facility through Avel eCare Pharmacy’s remote review and verification of outpatient orders. Our Outpatient Services include:

Review and verification of medication orders for your hospital outpatients such as dialysis, infusion therapy, chemotherapy, outpatient antibiotic therapy, etc.
Remote video supervision of nurse sterile medication preparation
Chemotherapy orders that are checked by two independent pharmacists such as one on-site and one Avel eCare Pharmacy or two independent Avel eCare Pharmacy checks
Clinical monitoring of outpatient therapies during a course of therapy

Medication Review

Avel’s Medication Review services ensure that customers meet federal regulations with 24/7 pharmacist oversight of any newly ordered medicine before it’s administered. Facilities with Avel eCare Pharmacy support can increase patient safety and regulatory compliance through the prospective review of medication orders, including:

Allergy history
Dosage recommendations
Drug compatibility
Duplication of therapy
Lab review
Patient demographic information
Potential interactions
Substitution recommendations

These reviews are available for inpatient, outpatient, emergency room, and other departments as needed with response times averaging 20 minutes or less.

Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:

Pharmacists

Description:

ThinkAndor® is the first-to-market virtual health collaboration platform leveraging AI-powered models, like OpenAI/ChatGPT, to orchestrate virtual collaboration experiences with clinical context. Our platform, ThinkAndor®, coordinates contextual workflows across 5 key pillars of virtual health: Virtual Visits, Virtual Hospital, Virtual Patient Monitoring, Virtual Team Collaboration, & Virtual Community Collaboration.

Digital Front Door - Digital front door with AI Virtual Assistant framework accessible on any channel, including SMS Text, Email, Web, and ThinkAndor®AI Bot

Enable intake/triage forms for self-reported data and patient navigation
Configure automated patient experience workflows for marketing, scheduling, and other clinically relevant opportunities
End to end digital front door experience for virtual visits as well as in-person visits
Configuration of CRM platform of choice for workflows

Virtual Visits - Patient Virtual Waiting Room

SMS/text and email links for patients to access on-demand asynchronous or synchronous virtual interactions with providers
Virtual lobby, assessments, digital consents, eligibility & payments
Program & Portal enrollment
Education, videos, family invitations, call back feature

Clinical Notification & Dashboard Views

EHR integrated experience
Provider visibility & virtual lobby access
Automated waiting room queues for on demand and scheduled patients
Automated notifications and alerts to next care team member to ‘join’ session
Embedded in Virtual collaboration & EHR platforms (enables providers to curate content from EMR into the visit experience)

Virtual Hospital - Virtual Rounding

In room & remote device provisioning
Simplified single click to join experience for participants with WebRTC enablement
IoMT, PTZ camera, and diagnostic device integration
Enable automated signals and alerts to care coordinators and nurses
Multi-disciplinary collaboration sessions with patients and families
Orchestrate automated care plan follow up
Patient experience assessments, including Q15 Check in

Virtual Sitter

24/7 sitter solution scalable to support up to 16 patients at once
Device agnostic deployments supporting cameras, mobile carts, or in-room infotainment systems
Partnerships with third-party staffing resources to fill potential gaps in a hospital’s sitter resources
Use of AI to track concerning movements and highlight patients requiring interventions
Alerts and notifications sent to on-site nurses during a medical emergency

Decentralized Remote Consults

Support for remote specialty consults such as Tele Stroke, Tele Psych, and Tele ICU
Access available resources across a health system or a national network of credentialed providers
Fulfill out of network consulting needs when a health system’s own providers are available
Surface labs, patient details, and place orders using ThinkAndor®AI Bot
Support for multi-disciplinary call sessions

Virtual Nurse

Complete initial intake, assessments, and discharge planning
Invite family members and care givers
Engage with ThinkAndor®AI Bot to configure care plans
Complete tasks like dual sign-off for medication verification

Virtual Patient Monitoring - Remote Monitoring

Unified experience for VPM enrolled patients and an efficient workflow for care teams and clinicians
Patient device kits and self-reported assessments integrated with workflow orchestration where care team members can configure distinct data signals to monitor patients remotely
Configurable, AI Driven care plan templates
Routine patient check-ins/assessments
Integrated asynchronous/synchronous virtual visit experiences for interventions and routine patient follow up
Over 50 configurable virtual patient monitoring (VPM) care plans, with an easy pathway for health systems to stand up plans for additional conditions
Support for a vast array of wearables and biometric devices used for many VPM programs

Hospital at Home

Triage and identification of patient candidates for Hospital at Home programs
Identifying available and on shift providers/care team members to assign staff to the hospital at home care team
Secure communications to allow for tasking and collaboration amongst the different members of the hospital at home clinical staff
Scheduled and On-Demand virtual and asynchronous chat visits for routine check-ins and as needed evaluations based on patient condition/status with comprehensive digital front door capabilities
Workflow orchestration tool responding to live traffic conditions and patient needs to ensure all patient rounds are completed

Virtual Team & Community Collaboration - Secure, HIPAA compliant platform enabling care team collaboration and communication with downstream clinicians

Configure individual roles and teams to drive appropriate communications
Enterprise AI-based communications for users, roles, shifts and teams
Automated escalation to ensure message delivery and review
Review, escalate, delegate and forward messages
Built-in voice command capabilities
End-user customization of data and communication channels
Event-based notifications for clinical alerts across care settings

By providing real-time clinical data and relevant information, ThinkAndor® empowers providers to communicate and take the next appropriate clinical action with bi-directional integration to the EHR. This allows for a seamless continuation of the patient journey from the home setting to inpatient scenarios to post-discharge and remote monitoring care plans.

Pediatric use cases:

ThinkAndor® can support a variety of pediatric workflows, from orchestrating all digital front door experiences to care plans configured by condition or custom workflows pursuant to requirements from the client.

Users:

We have a number of prominent pediatric hospitals as clients, including:

SickKids | The Hospital for Sick Children
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

None provided

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

None provided

EMRs Supported:

None provided

Hardware Compatibility:

None provided

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, ERP system, Patient portal, Pop health platform, Home health, Behavioral health, Community based organizations, ADT, Access +/or revenue cycle, Credentialing, Website / public online sources, Other

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, Athenahealth, athena, Allscripts/Eclipsys, eClinicalWorks, GE, Other

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Other, Mobile / Tablet (native app)

In Epic App Orchard

https://fhir.epic.com/Download?Id=22609

In Cerner App Gallery

https://code.cerner.com/apps/think-andor

Client Types

None provided

Pediatric Hospitals

Academic Medical Centers

Accountable Care Organizations

Rural Hospitals

Small Medical Facilities

Large Medical Facilities

Extra Small Medical Facilities

Medium Medical Facilities

Extra Large Medical Facilities

Awards

Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

None provided

Differentiators vs Competitors:

Around-the-clock support from our Avel eCare Pharmacy team will help your facility achieve:

Patient safety through timely medication reviews, verifications, reconciliations, pharmacist–directed interventions and monitoring to reduce the risk of adverse drug events
Reduction of post-discharge adverse drug events and readmissions with pharmacist discharge consultations. Connect with our pharmacists to provide individual patient education on medications prior to discharge
Continuity of care by following your facility’s medication use protocols, regardless of the time of day or day of the week. Your clinical staff always has an on-duty Avel eCare Pharmacy pharmacist to consult if questions arise
Improved staff confidence and satisfaction through 24-hour access to pharmacists for consultations and questions. For example, your nurses can focus on nursing when they don’t need to fill the role of an overnight pharmacist
Increased flexibility for on-site pharmacists to actively engage in direct patient care while medication orders are handled remotely. Vacation days, leaves of absence and staff shortages can be covered with minimal disruption to your team
Increased cost-effectiveness and savings from fewer adverse drug effects and the ability to customize Avel eCare Pharmacy services to your facility’s needs

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Learn More

Differentiators vs Competitors:

https://www.andorhealth.com/thinkAndor.html

Keywords

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