Interoperability: Community Health Record

The Community Health Record application aggregates clinical information contributed from community stakeholders to provide a comprehensive view of patient health via the on-demand cloud-based application or directly from the EHR. Sources include, demographic, lab, radiology, cardiology, pathology, medication, transcription, and clinical summaries.

Note: Community Health Record is NOT included in the Technology Access subscription or Technology Library.

Community Health Record gives users a comprehensive view of a patient’s health history contributed from sources from across the community.

The problem

Providing patients with the right care at the right time is a goal for all healthcare organizations. To meet that goal, healthcare professionals need a comprehensive view of a patient’s clinical history. With CHR, professionals can easily and securely access patient clinical history via the cloud-based application or directly in their EHR.

Clinicians have instant access to all previous encounters, which allows them to see patient data based on episodes of care or they can search for information related to a specific problem or condition. Users can filter data by date range, data type, inpatient/outpatient status, or simply use a search function to find what they need quickly. With a rich view of a patient’s health history, clinicians can easily identify what has been completed to avoid duplicate testing and to streamline transitions of care. With the Community Health Record, healthcare professionals will spend less time tracking down patient records and more time focused on delivering better patient care.

Our approach

CHR aggregates patient information from multiple sources to provide a longitudinal, comprehensive view into a given patient so clinicians can identify opportunities for improving the quality of care for an individual patient. The CHR aggregates a wide variety of data types including ADT, lab results, radiology results, cardiology results/reports, medications, immunizations, transcriptions, C-CDA/CCD care summaries, and more, giving clinicians a 360-degree view of their patients.

Interoperability: Organize eliminates the challenge of disparate clinical data gathered from across the community. Three modules with advanced “Interoperability 2.0” capabilities ensure quick and easy access to all the clinical insights providers need.

Benefits and features

• Reduce costs associated with duplicate testing – Provides access to recent diagnostic test and lab results performed anywhere in the community, so clinicians can avoid duplicate testing.
• Improve quality of care – Provides a comprehensive view of a patient’s health history, so clinicians will spend less time tracking down patient records and more time focused on delivering better care to patients.
• Provide vital information in emergency situations – Gives clinicians timely access to comprehensive patient information, so they can quickly get started on providing the needed patient care.
• Support medication reconciliation – Helps facilitate medication reconciliation processes by providing insights into which prescriptions patients have filled and alerting clinicians to possible medication non-adherence or possible drug interactions.
• Enable effective transitions of care – Gives clinicians access to both acute care and ambulatory patient information, aggregated from multiple systems from across the community, to help facilitate seamless transitions of care.

Use cases

• A new patient presents for care, and the specialist provider leverages the Community Health Record to view the most up-to-date clinical history for the new patient; to avoid duplicate testing and improve the quality of care.
• Unconscious patient presents in the Emergency Department, and the ED provider accesses the Community Health Record to determine the patient’s allergies and current medications before proceeding with treatment.
• Patient is discharged and transferred to a skilled nursing facility. The referral coordinator leverages the patient’s longitudinal health record to view the patient’s results from their recent inpatient admission to help streamline the patient’s transition in care.
• The payer case manager views results from the patient’s recent inpatient admission, to simplify payment reimbursement processes.
• A high-risk patient is being treated by multiple providers in the community, and the patient’s care coordinator is able to monitor the treatment and effectively coordinate the care provided by all of the providers.