NLPA PULSE ™ Analytics and dashboards - Your PII and Compliance Solutions Provider

The NLPA Pulse dashboards are purpose-driven, offering essential insights for auditors and Attorneys General with clear visuals and detailed data breakdowns. These dashboards focus on effective PII identification, compliance checks, risk assessment, and user access analysis, ensuring data management is both comprehensive and user-friendly.  Advanced search, filtering, and AI-driven insights enhance user access analysis, making the dashboard an effective tool for auditors, compliance officers, and data managers. 

Hospitals face challenges with critical shortages of specialized medical devices (e.g., heart valve pumps) during emergencies like heart transplant surgeries. The process of sourcing these devices from internal or external inventories is time-consuming, manual, and prone to errors, leading to delays in patient care.

Objective

Implement the NLPA-HC tool to automate and enhance the process of matching and tracking medical devices across hospital inventories. This ensures timely availability of critical items during medical procedures.

The NLPA-HC tool leverages advanced AI and NLP technologies, offering a comprehensive set of features to manage, analyze, and cleanse data from multiple sources. It ensures accurate, consistent, and readily available information on medical devices.

• Component Listing (COM): Analyzes medical devices to provide detailed insights for quick matching and verification.
• Synonyms Identification (SYN): Identifies varied nomenclatures for the same devices across databases.
• Bill of Materials (BOM) & Group Titling (GRP): Standardizes product descriptions.
• Regulatory Compliance (REG) & Quality Focus: Ensures all device listings meet regulatory standards.
• Correction and Cleansing (C&C): Cleanses data to maintain reliable and coherent inventory records.

Use Case Scenario

In a heart transplant procedure, a technician discovers a shortage of a specific heart valve pump. Traditionally, this involves manually contacting multiple hospitals, verifying compatibility, and checking regulatory standards.

1. Data Integration & Cleansing: The tool integrates data from hospital inventories, using AI-driven features like C&C and SYN to ensure uniform, accurate entries.
2. Product Matching: When a heart valve pump is needed, the technician inputs the requirements into the tool, which uses BOM and GRP to quickly find a matching product that meets medical and regulatory standards.
3. Instant Reporting: The tool generates a detailed report on available matches, indicating the item’s location, condition, and compliance status.
4. Informed Decision-Making: Medical staff can make quick, informed decisions, ensuring the timely procurement of necessary devices.

Enhance inventory management in healthcare by integrating various coding systems and regulatory databases (e.g., FDA APIs, DHS codes, HCPCS codes, MCL, and ICD codes) into the NLPA-HC tool. The goal is to streamline tracking, management, and verification of medical products across inventories, improving compliance and operational efficiency.

The NLPA-HC tool incorporates an advanced data linkage system, connecting different coding standards and regulatory databases for a unified view of medical inventory. This system supports matching, categorization, and compliance verification of medical products.

• API Integration with FDA: Fetches real-time info on medical devices and pharmaceuticals, ensuring inventory compliance.
• Linking DHS, HCPCS, and ICD Codes: Accurately categorizes medical procedures and associated devices/pharmaceuticals.
• MCL Enhancement: Cross-references inventory items with MCL entries, providing detailed specifications and regulatory classifications.
• Utilizing HCP Codes: Matches products with healthcare provider requirements, ensuring procedural compatibility.

1. Data Integration Layer: A robust layer normalizes data from various APIs and databases for use within the NLPA-HC tool.
2. API Consumption & Data Matching: The tool consumes FDA and other APIs, using AI algorithms for real-time discrepancy correction.
3. Compliance & Verification Module: A custom module continuously checks inventory against standards, flagging non-compliant items and recommending actions.

The NLPA-HC tool reduces the time needed to find and verify medical devices in emergencies, enhancing the success of life-saving procedures. By integrating diverse coding and regulatory systems, it improves compliance, operational efficiency, and patient outcomes.