Medical Economics December 4, 2023
When hospitals communicate with primary care physicians, good things can happen for patients and their doctors.
Data is not the same as information. Physicians often tell us they want greater insight into their patients’ health care experiences, not necessarily more data – unfiltered records, often crowded with unhelpful “noise” – but deeper and more actionable insights that provide meaning for their medical practices and their patients’ health care journeys.
Physicians have shared stories over the years about how a simple alert sent by a hospital to the right medical practice, at the right time, letting the physician know the patient had been treated in the hospital, changed the course of their patient’s outcome. These notifications are a key tool in...