McKnight's March 2, 2020
A skilled nursing facility could spend lavishly on an electronic health record system, but without the ability for hospital discharge planners to download medication records, physicians to upload care summaries, or payers to review charts, it all would be a waste of time and resources. Experts discuss here how to ensure greater interoperability with electronic health records.
1. Ensure your EHR software is a good fit for your facility.
Today’s sophisticated EHR systems must line up a number of ways.
Under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ newly introduced Interoperability and Patient Access Proposed Rule, it is essential that SNFs begin proactively researching and implementing innovative, cost-effective strategies to meet interoperability demands, according to Cindy Kreider, RN, BC RAC-CT,...