Hospitals use cloud computing technique to fight infectious diseases

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Providers have volumes of data in electronic health records, but struggle with how to bring that information to bear to improve patient care.
Drawing in ever-changing patient information, and knowing what steps to take as a result, is crucial when dealing with conditions like sepsis and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which require careful and timely treatment.
Getting real-time decision support in these cases, tailored to individual patients, is what VigiLanz Corp. does. Its enterprise Software as a Service approach is just an example of how providers may be able to call on third parties to layer services on top of existing clinical systems to derive benefits.
VigiLanz takes in electronic data in real time from more than 400 hospital clients. It aggregates disparate transactional workflow and documentation data from the hospitals’ EMRs, and then analyzes it in real time. Doing so enables VigiLanz to identify clinical issues and enable organizations to react quickly.
The company has developed a rules engine that enables hospitals to individualize their responses to patient conditions as they’re identified.
Two physicians started the company in 2001 by two physicians who wanted to use data to eliminate patient risk from adverse drug events, medication errors, hospital associated infections, sepsis and other clinical conditions. For complete and original story see here