So, we’re all still faxing patient information. Amazing, isn’t it? Many years ago, CMS Administrator Seema Verma challenged the industry to make doctors’ offices a “fax free” zone by 2020. That didn’t happen. In late 2021, federal health official Steve Posnack told Bloomberg Law that at least 70% of healthcare organizations still use fax machines […]
From a care-coordination standpoint, it would be ideal if a patient’s entire healthcare journey took place in a single location. The patient’s primary care physician could take an elevator to the surgical floor and speak directly with that team about the unique circumstances of the patient’s upcoming procedure. After surgery, the acute-care staff could walk […]
Imagine this scenario. While visiting his daughter and grandchild out of state, a man experiences shortness of breath and chest pains. His daughter rushes him to an urgent care. Thanks to their patient query technology, the medical staff is able to quickly locate important data from the man’s primary care physician before treating him. Score […]
According to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) State of Interoperability among U.S. Non-federal Acute Care Hospitals in 2018 Report, released in March 2020, the use of traditional fax for data exchange continues to rise. In a recent article published in Healthcare IT Today, Consensus’s John Nebergall discusses how the […]
New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle and other metropolitan areas have received the majority of media coverage concerning the toll COVID-19 is taking on our healthcare system. This coverage largely ignores the fact that the virus is even more devastating to vulnerable rural hospitals struggling to care for patients during the pandemic. In this post, […]
