Secure Electronic Exchange Of CCDA Documents Accomplished With Implementation

Serving a 15-county area in central and northern New York, Crouse Hospital is a private, not-for-profit hospital licensed for 506 acute-care beds and 57 bassinets. The hospital treats more than 23,000 patients on an inpatient basis, 66,000 emergency- services patients, and 250,000 patients on an outpatient basis annually.

Challenges

• Fulfill the federal Meaningful Use (MU) requirement for hospitals to securely exchange Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (CCDA) documents electronically via Direct Project standards for 10% of all patients.
• Provide a process that is simple for providers to execute, and that can also be used for automated trigger events, such as discharges.
• And more...

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