Telehealth

The best solution for Remote Patient Monitoring is also the best for Virtual Telehealth encounters

Today, telehealth is an important component of our healthcare delivery system as well as remote patient monitoring. Patients expect for it to be available. In many instances telehealth it is not only easier for patients, but also can be as effective as a face-to-face visit. Patients appreciate that they don't have to drive to the their doctor's office, park, and sit in a waiting room when they are sick. It is also easier to fit a virtual visit in a busy schedule or arrange for childcare.

While Telehealth offers many benefits for patients, it creates challenges for providers. For them, virtual encounters result in fragmented health records and reduced efficiency. Providers, needing to confirm patient allergies and adverse reactions, view current medications and information from previous visits, are required to switch back and forth to their on-premises EHR to access that information. Then, following the switch to their EHR, they must then revert to their telehealth application in order to continue the virtual encounter. After doing all of that, information created during the telehealth visit, will either need to be manually re-entered or will be isolated in the telehealth application. It is an identical scenario to what was in place in the "olden days" when data created during inpatient stays was separate from data created during ambulatory visits. And as the use of telemedicine continues to grow, a greater and greater share of patient data becomes orphaned, and innovative initiatives requiring aggregated data are stalled.

With Intersect on FHIR all visits are seamlessly interoperable whether they take place in a face-to-face setting or online. Virtual encounters can proceed smoothly without providers having to switch back and forth between one system and another while searching for data. The patient record is complete whether you are viewing it in your EHR or on Intersect on FHIR. HL7 created the FHIR dataset and Congress specified that it be the requirement for Certified EHR systems in the 21st Century Cares Act for to achieve these results.

Whether the task at hand is creating quality measurements and reporting, or optimizing a value based care initiative, integrated data and interoperability are key drivers. And, for the use of advanced AI, integrated data is a mandate. Those uses-cases abound for transformational administrative and patient initiatives. Allow Intersect to discuss how you can get started with advanced predictive AI in your organization - without the need to recruit and retain scarce data scientists - all made possible through the benefit of integrated data and single patient data records.