Interoperability

As healthcare organizations grapple with rising costs and evolving payment models, achieving positive margins is more critical than ever.

New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange with electronic health records, it says. 

EHR customers could take part in the direct sharing of health information – including X-rays and MRIs – between providers, payers, government agencies and others under the TEFCA nationwide interoperability framework.

The electronic health record vendor group was founded two decades ago with a bold premise: competitors working collaboratively to identify issues related to software development and functionality for EHRs and to further the initiatives laid out by HHS.

The electronic health record giant says that it did not violate federal law prohibiting unfair business practices when it raised concerns about certain patient data requests over the Carequality interoperability framework.

When hospitals and health systems can integrate pertinent patient data into electronic health records (EHRs), they can deliver better patient outcomes at lower costs. However, managing unstructured patient data such as medical images and scanned records from outside providers poses a challenge to achieving this goal.

In this webinar, Intake leaders from three US Healthvest facilities share their experiences in addressing administrative bottlenecks associated with referral management. The panel details their journey from manual processes to leveraging cutting-edge technology to achieve efficient patient intake, resulting in double-digit increases in census, reduced wait times, and happier staff. 

North Shore Community Health Inc. (NSCHI) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) based on the North Shore of Massachusetts offering medical, dental, behavioral health and supportive services. NSCHI is implementing a full suite of Concord Practical AI™ solutions that will create flexible, customized pathways for document classification and data extraction and delivery.

This KLAS Research Performance Report on next-generation digital fax revealed that advanced users were not fully leveraging the capabilities of their digital fax solutions. In addition, they reported that deployment is still a challenge. That said, advanced users see digital fax as a long-term fixture in their organizations and a critical component of their interoperability strategy.

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) continue to face business challenges such as escalating costs, personnel turnover and the difficulty of querying and electronically receiving unstructured patient data.