PSMI Consulting

Practical Solutions in Medical Informatics

We make your existing technology better through the power of data.

Data matters more than ever. Is your technology optimizing the data that feeds into it? We can help.
Our goal is to ensure that every customer gets the results they need from their systems by providing the right data and rules for those systems.

Workflow and Data Capture Standardization:
The Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)

We have in-depth experience in developing automated data collection methods in a research environment. In collaboration with the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), Northern California and the University of California San Francisco Department of Clinical Pharmacy, PSMI has standardized the existing WIHS workflows utilizing a data model approach that leverages HL7 FHIR, RxNorm, SNOMED International, and LOINC standard for interoperability.

Leveraging Interoperable Data for MACRA Compliance

PSMI engaged with the American Medical Association in development of a new platform geared towards improving semantic interoperability with a first phase focus on supporting MACRA.

Informatics Expert Guidance
Empowering Individuals through Interoperable Medication List

When the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) needed expert guidance for the exchange of prescription data, they chose PSMI.

Our work provided strategic guidance and interoperability standards to help ONC create the Interoperable MedList, an application framework that allows patients to access an electronic version of their prescription medications on demand.

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PVIX

Baystate Health System has implemented a Health Information Exchange (HIE) named PVIX (Pioneer Valley information Exchange) to improve quality of care for patients. PVIX has discrete data from multiple electronic systems including problems, medications, allergies, immunization and lab data. These terms contain either locally created codes, standard terminology codes or no associated code and must comply with government and private party initiatives such as Meaningful Use, PQRI and HEDIS ...

PSMI identifies important terminology gaps, provides estimates for resolution and makes recommendations regarding terminology/knowledge management for maintaining the currency of mappings by analyzing the breadth of data elements and their terminology binding requirements to standards for quality reporting and analytics.

Announcements

Elimu Informatics, Inc.

We are excited to announce that PSMI has officially merged with our longtime collaborative partner, Meliorix. Going forward, our combined companies will be renamed to, and conduct business as, Elimu Informatics, Inc.

Elimu will carry forward the great work that PSMI and Meliorix began - adding knowledge layers within and on top of your existing health information technology (HIT) infrastructure. We are dedicated to saving our customers time and money and offering products and services in the following areas:

Terminology Mapping Services and Value Sets
Clinical Decision Support
ACO/Population Health
MACRA/MIPS
SMART on FHIR
Pharmacogenomics

Services

Informatics Strategic Guidance

We understand that each institution has a unique footprint of applications, challenges, and strengths which need to be leveraged and developed alongside master data management and terminology content competencies. PSMI will work will your organization to develop a customized plan to move your data governance strategy along the information maturity continuum to meet immediate and longer term goals.

Data Analysis for Reporting

We live and work in a quickly evolving healthcare environment where information needs are a moving target and data analytics are vital for care quality and regulatory reasons. The ability to build, display, and analyze reports for core dimensions and key measures is essential for making wise business decisions. We work to leverage your existing investment in your EMR, data warehouse and business intelligence strategies to support all of your data needs comprehensively, using data and terminology standards and tools.

Innovations in Data Recall

Our expertise in terminology allows us to optimizes and improve searching/recall of clinical terms, relevant content such as clinical articles or monographs and query complex health system databases leveraging the richness of standards such as SNOMED CT, RXNORM, ICD10, LOINC, NDFRT, UNII,...

Standards and Interoperability Alignment

Healthcare organizations manage multiple data sources and users with a wide variety of purposes and needs. Data standardization best practices are not only necessary, but often required to meet the demands of internal and external consumers. PSMI specializes in collecting, structuring, defining, and sharing data for the purpose of understanding that data in order to inform patient care quality, resource utilization, and financial impacts.

Education and Training

We understand that many of the concepts and processes that we put in place will be new to most organizations. We won’t leave you hanging. Part of our service is to ensure that we leave our customers with the ability to manage their implementations going forward. PSMI advocates that clients build their own ‘in-house’ subject matter expertise in terminology and data standards, knowledge and infrastructure to support enterprise goals and growth.

Who we are

Our Story

PSMI was established in 2005 by James Shalaby, Pharm.D., who previously managed Convergent Medical Terminology (CMT), Kaiser Permanente’s enterprise-wide medical terminology solution. Our team of medical informaticists, analysts and engineers come from a wide breadth of clinical and industry backgrounds. We are doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and technologists and we have worked for large provider organizations, HIT vendors, and original terminology domain pioneers.

Our Vision

We understand the landscape of the Healthcare Information Technology Industry and the importance of focused, practical, and customized solutions to achieve tangible and measurable goals. With a longstanding reputation for outcomes in Healthcare Informatics, PSMI provides a pragmatic and results-oriented approach. PSMI's breadth and depth of expertise is uniquely positioned to weave the fabric of interoperability through each client’s real world experience to connect the dots.

Teamwork

PSMI is a close network of consultants who have worked together for more than 10 years to solve some of the most challenging issues in Health IT. Our team of terminologists and informaticists are experts in medical terminology and standards. The software development team of architects, software engineers, and program managers have designed and built multiple solutions to improve the clinical workflow, creating efficiency and helping improve quality of care.

Client Testimonials

Richard Wang,
Director of Product Management,
Imprivata

"What makes PSMI unique is their unmatched expertise in clinical informatics coupled with real-world knowledge of how the data will best be utilized.

They are clinicians who know clinical workflow and what’s practical and not practical for all roles – doctors, nurses, administrators. We used them to build our initial FHIR services offering. PSMI ran the project to perfection and even came in well under budget!"

George A. Robinson, RPh
Sr Product Manager,
FDB (First Databank, Inc.)

"Through the years, the PSMI team has consistently provided effective solutions ranging from the extension of proprietary nomenclatures to standard vocabularies such as SNOMED-CT, to delivery of complex informatics services directly to mutual clients.

Jim Shalaby and the PSMI team are well known and trusted within the medical informatics community. With extensive experience spanning vocabulary maintenance, interoperable extension of clinical patient information between disparate systems, and the authoring and integration of decision support rules within the clinical workflow, PSMI provides a capable extension of knowledgeable informatics capabilities to clients."

David Lareau,
Chief Executive Officer,
Medicomp Systems

"Jim Shalaby and his team at PSMI are the best in the business. Focused, ethical, talented and extremely well-versed in all aspects of clinical terminology."