Physicians Practice March 9, 2021
Now is the time to support the creation of a statewide health information exchange network.
Ask any healthcare professional or provider, and they’ll tell you: to take care of the patients and communities they serve, they need comprehensive health data to deliver the best care. They’ll also tell you that in California, it can be very difficult to do that across different healthcare providers and systems.
Before becoming Executive Director of Palliative Care Services at Charter Health Care Group, I could never have imagined the amount of time my team and I would spend tracking down patients’ medical records to get basic information, including current medications, allergies, recent procedures, and underlying conditions.
At Charter Health Care...