New Communication Platform Makes Information Exchange Practical For Providers
Sharing is difficult. Ask any three-year-old. Or ask any healthcare provider.
But it is necessary. Toddlers need to learn to share so they can get along in a social world. And, healthcare providers need to find ways to share information so they can provide better clinical care and succeed under the government's Meaningful Use incentive program and emerging value-based purchasing models that call for increased care coordination.
"Unlocking and sharing patient information across the provider continuum is critical for healthcare providers to gain meaningful cost savings and promised patient care benefits," said ZirMed CEO Tom Butts. "The challenge is despite the HITECH and Meaningful Use incentives and adoption of EMR technologies, the information remains locked away in silos."
Certainly, the healthcare industry has struggled to find an easy, practical way for providers to share information for years. There's the costly and inefficient process of faxing, printing, scanning, and using a jumbled assortment of faxing tools, costly dedicated phone lines, and even snail mail to exchange information from provider to provider, or from provider to patient. More recently, health information exchanges have emerged to provide an alternative but they are expensive, difficult to implement and a challenge to sustain.
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