NOVEMBER 21 • 2019 | 43 W A R R IO R STR O N G TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PHOENI X, VI SI T MED. WAYNE. EDU/DATA- MAPPI NG An emer gency r oom i s desi gned to tr eat i mmedi ate, of ten l i f e- thr eateni ng condi ti ons. Among al l thi s chaos, Dr . Phi l l i p Levy, assi stant vi ce pr esi dent of Tr ansl ati onal Sci ence and Cl i ni cal Resear ch I nnovati on at Wayne State Uni ver si ty, saw a hi dden oppor tuni ty: A pati ent’s data of f er s cl ues i nto not onl y thei r heal th, but i nto the over al l heal th of the communi ty. Project PHOENI X is born. As a r esi dent, Dr . Levy was taught that an emer gency r oom doctor had to see beyond the emer genci es. The pati ents r epr esented how the heal th car e system was per f or mi ng f or the peopl e of the ci ty. He l ear ned that i n most cases, ther e was a l ar ger , l onger - ter m i ssue that was the r oot cause, and he was dr i ven to i magi ne a wor l d wher e popul ati on heal th car e was an ef f ecti ve way to i mpr ove over al l heal th. PHOENI X — whi ch stands f or Popul ati on Heal th Outcomes and I nf or mati on Exchange — i s a shar ed database that i denti f i es di seases af f ecti ng a par ti cul ar ar ea, the pr eci se r i sk f actor s that cause them, the oppor tuni ti es to addr ess them and the abi l i ty to tr ack the heal th outcomes af ter i nter venti ons have been put i n pl ace. When a patient is a symptom. The heal th car e wor l d has many ways to tr eat pati ents, but Dr . Levy wanted to tr eat the l ong- ter m i ssues that wer e causi ng l ar ge par ts of the popul ati on of Detr oi t to be si ck. He wonder ed why he saw so many r el ati vel y young pati ents wi th consequences of uncontr ol l ed hyper tensi on. Usi ng de- i denti f i ed data f r om mul ti pl e sour ces, he was f i r st abl e to i denti f y census tr acts wher e bl ood pr essur e contr ol appear ed to be the wor st. Remar kabl y, he was abl e to see that each nei ghbor hood had a uni que constel l ati on of under l yi ng contr i butor s to thi s pr obl em. Suddenl y, i t was cl ear : By i denti f yi ng the patter ns hi dden i n data, he woul d be abl e to dr i ve i nnovati ve sol uti ons f r om beyond the f i el d of medi ci ne to make a huge di f f er ence i n the heal th of the peopl e that l i ve i n our communi ty. Thinking beyond medical intervention. Data i s mor e than a pati ent’s vi tal s on a char t. I t’s a di agnosti c tool that hel ps the heal th car e communi ty i mpr ove peopl e’s l i ves f or year s to come. Car r egi str ati on data may uncover an ar ea wher e tr anspor tati on i s ol d and unr el i abl e, maki ng getti ng to a doctor pr acti cal l y i mpossi bl e. For ecl osur e data may i ndi cate that a pati ent i s at r i sk of bei ng homel ess, and str ess comes wi th that. “Pati ent data” i n the near f utur e i s goi ng to be compl etel y r ei magi ned to r epr esent ever y per son’s i ndi vi dual r i sk f actor s. And the ef f ect of ever y i nter venti on can be tr acked and measur ed to see how ef f ecti ve i t was. I t’s health that should be rising. Not the cost of it. PHOENI X shows how data can save l i ves and take costs out of the heal th car e system. I nstead of decades of tr eatment f or hi gh bl ood pr essur e, l ower -cost, pr oacti ve car e coul d hel p us avoi d havi ng to tr eat i t al together . And that’s Warrior Strong. SOMETI MES, DAT A I S THE BEST MEDI CI NE.