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About Cattails Software

Over a quarter of a century ago, Marshfield Clinic had a vision – to effectively apply information technology to improve the quality and safety of patient care. The first step was the development of a comprehensive electronic health record system managing over two million individual electronic medical records to date. With this comprehensive database of patient population information available, the ability to analyze the data was essential.

Marshfield Clinic developed a world-class healthcare decision support solution, Cattails DecisionArchitect, to provide the ability to quickly analyze this vast amount of patient data, provide timely reports and feed actionable information back into the electronic health record. By tightly integrating these two systems within the practice of Medicine, Marshfield Clinic has reduced hospitalizations, avoided complications and lowered the costs associated with chronically ill patients.

An illustration showing the cyclical interactions beginning at the electronic health record, that facilitates clinical data collection feeding into a data repository to allow evidence-based medicine, that allows population data assessment and provider feedback. A provider then takes the actionable data and uses it in interventions that are captured in the electronic health record and the cycle begins again.


Federal Stimulus funds

Federal money may be available for implementing CattailsMD.