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High Performance Referral Management vs EHRs

Posted by Jeremy Guttman on 5/11/16 5:30 PM

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It would be easier to coordinate team-based medical care on facebook rather than with EHR systems.

- John Halamka, CIO | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and co-chair of the federal HIT Standards Committee, at the HIMSS conference in March 20161

EHRs aren’t enough

A common misconception is that an electronic health record (EHR) can close referral loops and provide high-performance referral management for primary care practices. However, not long after EHRs were implemented, users quickly realized that EHRs alone are not able to establish a pipeline that allows data to flow between PCPs and specialists from different organizations.2

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Topics: Care Coordination, Healthcare Analytics, Referral Management, Closed-Loop Referral Management, Interoperability