Interoperability

Keeping staff healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge faced by every healthcare organization. And when temporary staff are present, the challenge is even more difficult. Maintaining a record that keeps occupational health data separate from a staff member’s regular medical data is key to maintaining staff confidentiality and privacy. Net Health® Employee Health and Occupational Medicine are comprehensive software solutions with tools that help healthcare organizations paperlessly manage employees’ and temporary staff’s immunization compliance, test results and exposure statuses.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into another year, healthcare staff are facing ever-increasing pressure to do more work with fewer resources. Because of this, it’s crucial for Employee Health (EH) departments to address mental and physical health issues among healthcare staff so they can continue to deliver optimal patient care. Software solutions like Net Health® Employee Health can help healthcare facilities develop a comprehensive strategy to solve some of the challenges of keeping staff healthy and productive during a pandemic.

The explosion of digital technologies such as electronic medical records, genome sequencers and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors has ushered in a new era of big data for healthcare and life sciences. It’s now estimated that a single person will generate more than 1 million gigabytes of health-related data in their lifetime.

Healthcare leaders have long realized the importance of real-time decision making for use cases such as early identification of life-threatening conditions. Unfortunately, many healthcare organizations (HCOs) are hampered in their efforts to take swift action by the difficulties in bringing disparate data together for analytics and AI.

Healthcare organizations are facing a crucial deadline to address network and API security requirements tied to the 21st Century Cures Act. Healthcare providers and payers must give patients easier access to their health data and put security in place to guard that data – or face noncompliance penalties.

To ensure continuity of patient care, optimal patient outcomes and timely, full reimbursement, healthcare providers need current, accurate data – and technology that streamlines workflows and supports employee retention. Healthcare providers have long relied on fax technology to achieve these key goals; at the same time, they are also using other avenues of data transmission to enter clinical documents into their workflows. To bridge this gap, providers need a secure fax solution that can interact with other technologies within their data stream and offer interoperability so that data can flow easily to and from outside locations, such as EHRs, health information exchanges and other databases. A cloud-based solution with robust AI and analytical capabilities like Concord’s Cloud Fax, designed to enhance productivity while protecting data and strengthening information usage, can meet all of those goals.

Healthcare organizations are barraged with volumes of patient data, and often struggle with managing that much information. In addition, many providers still rely on paper to generate prior authorizations, referrals, prescriptions and other documents. This can lead to inefficient use of staff resources, slow patient care and delayed reimbursement from insurers, Medicare and Medicaid. Closing the gap between paper processes and fully automated digital workflows doesn’t have to be complicated. Concord’s customizable, AI-enabled solutions can build a bridge to better information flow, storage and usage – improving both efficiency and patient outcomes.

With AI solutions emerging in all areas of healthcare, health systems are looking for scalable solutions to help improve quality and efficiency.  Evaluating AI solutions that drive efficiency and improved patient outcomes can be challenging.  In this session, we will take a look at considerations that come into play when selecting AI solutions and review solutions we’ve used to drive impact in Neuro and Vascular service lines.

Health IT leaders and federal officials have spent years attempting to solve the challenges Larry Ellison says his company can fix. Many experts are skeptical. But if Oracle can make it happen, it would be a major achievement for healthcare.

Today’s consumers expect personalized, convenient digital experiences. Several industries have adopted technologies to provide a seamless experience for their customers across multiple platforms. The healthcare industry has a significant opportunity to learn from and adopt similar experiences.