The CINA Protocol Engine

Overview

The CINA Protocol Engine (CPE) is a software system that will permit most any provider to implement best-practice clinical guidelines now.  The CPE can read data from most data sources currently available within a clinical practice.  These sources include Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Practice Management Systems (PMSs), Lab Information Systems (LISs), clinical data repositories (CDRs), patient registries, and other sources.

The CPE compares all available data against national guidelines (chosen by your providers) to produce a single-page report for each patient, identifying risks, goals and recommendations. The CPE doesn’t tell the provider how to practice. It simply reminds the provider of those things that he or she has asked to be reminded of.  The CPE also produces performance data that can be used to respond to pay-for performance reporting, trended over time, or aggregated with data from other practices for analysis.

Uses and Benefits

• Increased revenue for improved compliance
• Improved quality of care provided
• Encourages EMR use
• Helps standardize clinic processes
• Leverages providers’ time
• Engages patients
• Energizes entire staff
• Provides marketing and PR opportunities
• Identification of Research Candidates
• Lists of Patients Overdue for Tests, Evaluations
• Payor Contract Negotiation
• Provider Evaluation

Features

• Virtually any guideline or protocol can be encoded
• Unlimited number of protocols can be run per patient
• Uniform encoding of guidelines across EHRs
• Standard data connectors to multiple data sources

Data Vendors Currently Supported

Current Quality or Performance Guidelines