Physicians have very busy lives, often seeing up to 30 patients a day in their outpatient clinics. The daily chores of reviewing a patient’s complete chart before seeing the patient in the exam room is daunting. You chart for a given patient may be missing key information such as lab tests, medications, hospital progress notes, past radiology studies etc. Collecting such information is often laborious and time consuming and prone with errors. It takes up a lot of time of your front desk staff. Your patients also suffer from the less-than optimal experience that they have at your clinic. How can this be changed?

Health Information Exchanges (HIE’s) and RHIO’s built with HealthUnity technology are making revolutionary changes in how physicians get key clinical information from the outside sources that they deal with. This information flows to your office through the network so you get your own personal copy. This information is readily accessible when you need it, just before you see the patient. There is no more shuffling through stacks of faxes and paper mail. The network can provide data from hospital visits, lab results, radiology study reports, referral and consult notes etc to name a few.

How do you get started? Today, we are present in several states and expanding. We can immediately provide you regional lab and national lab results. We are likely working with your local hospital if you are in one of the states where we have a presence. If you live in a state or region where we don’t have a presence today, just contact us and will be happy to provide you an update on when we will be in your state.

The next time you have a discussion with the hospital at which you are credentialed, do speak to your contact as to what the hospital’s strategy is to get you more electronic data and less paper and faxes. We are here to help you and the hospital that you practice medicine to reach a world where key clinical data is privacy protected and shared under appropriate controls in an electronic network. This is what we have done for others across the country.