Hospital improves continuity of care by electronically connecting facilities to their referring and admitting physicians through:

• Hospital-based Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and report distribution
• Discharge summaries
• Electronic health record (EHR) interoperability
• Web-based clinical health record
• ePrescribing with formulary and drug interaction alerts
• Secure messaging for communication with other clinicians

Hospitals can strengthen their relationships with referring physicians and boost their presence in the community.
Benefits:

• Access an open standards interface to achieve full integration across all health care settings.
• Bridge the communication gap by sending health information leading to improved patient compliance.
• Connect and integrate your information without replacing existing systems or incurring additional staff or training expenses.
• Improve treatment outcomes by allowing health care professionals to view consistent and current patient information.
• Increase patient safety with detailed clinical data.