David Levin, MD, joins PeraHealth to accelerate clinical adoption of advanced IT, improve patient safety

CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- PeraHealth, a provider of real-time clinical surveillance software, has named David Levin, MD, as physician executive.

Dr. Levin previously served as chief medical information officer (CMIO) at the Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS), where he founded the system's Clinical Decision Support Center of Excellence. He also helped establish and led CCHS's Clinical Systems Office, which supports clinical information systems operations worldwide.

In his new role, Dr. Levin will work with PeraHealth and its client hospitals and health systems to help them improve care coordination and prevent harm through clinical adoption of advanced technology. PeraHealth software enhances care team communication and helps clinicians more quickly detect unexpected patient deterioration.

"The question isn't how to get more data but how to take the data we have, interpret it and put it to use to benefit communities nationwide," said Dr. Levin. "PeraHealth solutions make patient data actionable by alerting clinicians to subtle life-threatening health problems, no matter the patient population or care setting. I look forward to helping our client care providers optimize their IT systems and create a safer, more integrated care experience."

Prior to his work with the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Levin served as vice president for Medical Informatics at Sentara Healthcare, where he led the implementation of an enterprise-wide electronic health record (EHR) that achieved HIMSS Analytics Level 7 certification and won the HIMSS Davies Award (2010).

"Dr. Levin has close to three decades of clinical tecnology adoption and optimization experience, most of it in a health system setting," said PeraHealth CEO Stephanie Alexander. "This collective knowledge coupled with his expertise about emerging healthcare trends will be of significant benefit to our client providers in their ongoing efforts to improve care delivery and prevent harm." Dr. Levin's physician executive position at PeraHealth is in addition to other professional roles that he continues.

Dr. Levin will join PeraHealth executives at HIMSS 2015 (booth 7071) on Wednesday, April 15th at 9:30 a.m. CDT in Chicago.

Powered by the peer-reviewed Rothman Index™, a disease-agnostic universal score for predicting patient readmission and mortality risk, PeraHealth software automatically pulls and computes data from any EHR, offering a clear depiction of a patient's overall condition trended over time.

Clinicians use PeraHealth solutions:

• To remotely monitor patients across multiple care settings for preemptive rapid response team intervention.
• For chronic disease management to determine when to discharge patients and predict readmission risk.
• During daily interdisciplinary rounds to prioritize patient bedside visits for ICU optimization.
• To facilitate conversations and make recommendations about the need for palliative care.

About PeraHealth
PeraHealth provides hospitals and health systems with the industry's only real-time clinical surveillance software applicable across all patient populations and care settings. Based on the peer-reviewed Rothman Index™, a universal score for predicting patient readmission and mortality risk over time, PeraHealth software can pull data from all major EHR systems with no added manual data entry for nurses and other staff. The result is a predictive warning system that promotes care team communication and more quickly alerts clinicians to the potential for subtle patient deterioration to help optimize ICU use, hardwire rapid response teams and enhance palliative care services. More than two million clinicians, patients and their families have benefited from solutions from PeraHealth and Alive Sciences, its Sarasota, Fla. affiliate. For more information about Charlotte, NC-based PeraHealth, visit www.perahealth.com.

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