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Boston Scientific's Clearpath: A Digital Solution for Multidisciplinary Hospital Teams

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Technology Category	Wearables - Implants
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals Telecommunications
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Experimentation Automation Inventory Management
Services	Training
Challenge	Boston Scientific, a global provider of medical devices and innovative medical solutions, faced a challenge in enabling rapid digital experiments for hospital clients. The company's Healthcare Solutions & Partnerships (HS&P) team identified a recurring problem where physicians failed to review up to 90% of patients who could have benefited from a heart procedure called 'LAAC' (Left Atrial Appendage Closure). The lengthy process of reviewing patients' clinical history led to repeated readmissions. The team hypothesized that an algorithm could use patient data to flag patients who might need the LAAC treatment and streamline the tasks, communications, and collaboration needed for a multidisciplinary physician team to diagnose and treat patients. However, previous digital experiments had suffered from slow and hard-to-change coding and restrictions from third-party, white-labeled software. Read More
About Customer	Boston Scientific is a worldwide provider of medical devices and innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients around the world. Established in 1979, the company has over 36,000 employees and around 10 billion USD in revenue. The company's Healthcare Solutions & Partnerships team invents and brings to market innovative healthcare solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. The team works in long-term partnerships with customers to develop solutions that are differentiated and tailored to their needs. Read More
Solution	Boston Scientific turned to OutSystems and delivery partner Devoteam to develop Clearpath, a product that supports patients' clinical history review, care, and monitoring through complex pathways. After researching the low-code market and experimenting with a free OutSystems personal environment, Cristian Toader, a digital solutions manager at Boston Scientific, saw the potential that OutSystems could provide. A project team built a demonstratable MVP of Clearpath, which includes flexible integration to connect to various hospital management systems, workflow and case management features to streamline collaboration, and UI/UX design to ensure that Clearpath is easy to use and presents tasks and data that healthcare professionals can understand and trust. The development was iterative, with regular demonstrations to customers and potential users to refine the solution. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Wearables - Implants

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Experimentation Automation

Inventory Management

Services

Training

Challenge

Boston Scientific, a global provider of medical devices and innovative medical solutions, faced a challenge in enabling rapid digital experiments for hospital clients. The company's Healthcare Solutions & Partnerships (HS&P) team identified a recurring problem where physicians failed to review up to 90% of patients who could have benefited from a heart procedure called 'LAAC' (Left Atrial Appendage Closure). The lengthy process of reviewing patients' clinical history led to repeated readmissions. The team hypothesized that an algorithm could use patient data to flag patients who might need the LAAC treatment and streamline the tasks, communications, and collaboration needed for a multidisciplinary physician team to diagnose and treat patients. However, previous digital experiments had suffered from slow and hard-to-change coding and restrictions from third-party, white-labeled software.

About Customer

Boston Scientific is a worldwide provider of medical devices and innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients around the world. Established in 1979, the company has over 36,000 employees and around 10 billion USD in revenue. The company's Healthcare Solutions & Partnerships team invents and brings to market innovative healthcare solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. The team works in long-term partnerships with customers to develop solutions that are differentiated and tailored to their needs.

Solution

Boston Scientific turned to OutSystems and delivery partner Devoteam to develop Clearpath, a product that supports patients' clinical history review, care, and monitoring through complex pathways. After researching the low-code market and experimenting with a free OutSystems personal environment, Cristian Toader, a digital solutions manager at Boston Scientific, saw the potential that OutSystems could provide. A project team built a demonstratable MVP of Clearpath, which includes flexible integration to connect to various hospital management systems, workflow and case management features to streamline collaboration, and UI/UX design to ensure that Clearpath is easy to use and presents tasks and data that healthcare professionals can understand and trust. The development was iterative, with regular demonstrations to customers and potential users to refine the solution.

Impact #1	Clearpath has been likened to a SatNav for multidisciplinary hospital teams, guiding the patient's journey and helping teams collaborate more quickly, cost-efficiently, and safely. It collects all information, tasks, and communication around the patient's case record, making the status and next step easy to see throughout the workflow. This eliminates the manual effort and delays caused by emails. Feedback from hospital trials shows that Clearpath is on track to be a success. The HS&P team can quickly configure and integrate the solution for different hospitals and therapies. As the product moves into scaled deployment, Boston Scientific will explore many other therapeutical uses for Clearpath.

Impact #1

Clearpath has been likened to a SatNav for multidisciplinary hospital teams, guiding the patient's journey and helping teams collaborate more quickly, cost-efficiently, and safely. It collects all information, tasks, and communication around the patient's case record, making the status and next step easy to see throughout the workflow. This eliminates the manual effort and delays caused by emails. Feedback from hospital trials shows that Clearpath is on track to be a success. The HS&P team can quickly configure and integrate the solution for different hospitals and therapies. As the product moves into scaled deployment, Boston Scientific will explore many other therapeutical uses for Clearpath.

Benefit #1	Clearpath improves care coordination between multidisciplinary teams
Benefit #2	Clearpath saves time spent on patient analysis and triage
Benefit #3	Clearpath is easy to use

Benefit #1

Clearpath improves care coordination between multidisciplinary teams

Benefit #2

Clearpath saves time spent on patient analysis and triage

Benefit #3

Clearpath is easy to use

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Boston Scientific's Clearpath: A Digital Solution for Multidisciplinary Hospital Teams

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