Brightree® today announced plans for its Home Health and
Hospice customers to access more than 50,000 provider locations and
health systems nationwide via the CommonWell Health Alliance, a
nonprofit national trade association of health IT companies, and through
CommonWell to Carequality, a national, consensus-built common
interoperability framework.
This represents an important step forward in bridging the gap between
out-of-hospital care providers and the broader care ecosystem, solving
for when providers lose visibility into their patients’ care when they
enter a post-acute care setting.
The power of CommonWell
Traditionally, home health and hospice agencies obtained critical
patient health data manually from each of a patient’s other care
providers. This required significant resources and often resulted in
large gaps in patients’ records, hindering the speed and quality of care
patients received.
Through CommonWell, Brightree Home Health and Hospice customers will be
able to quickly and easily retrieve documents and data from a patient’s
previous hospital and physician visits within their EMR solution. They
can also share patient updates with physicians and other providers in
the CommonWell network who serve that patient. This seamless information
exchange will help home health and hospice agencies improve their
efficiency, as well as patients’ care coordination and quality of care.
“What this amounts to is a smoother journey for patients moving from
care setting to care setting, which is traditionally difficult to
navigate,” said Nick Knowlton, Brightree vice president of Business
Development and CommonWell board vice chair. “Our customers can now help
provide a better experience more efficiently, which can lead to improved
outcomes. By including this service in Brightree’s EMR offering, we are
helping create a better future for our providers and patients.”
“Our mission at CommonWell is to break down longtime technological and
process barriers so individuals and caregivers can access important
health data efficiently, affordably and securely,” said Jitin Asnaani,
executive director of CommonWell Health Alliance. “We’re thrilled to be
welcoming a new wave of home health and hospice providers into the
network, and commend Brightree for its leadership in this space.”
In a forthcoming Brightree survey, 60 percent of referring providers say
they would select a post-acute care delivery partner based on their
ability to interoperate with the referral source.
“Fluid data exchange is so critical to successful patient management
across a system of care, and Brightree is leading in this space,” said
Denise Schrader, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, vice president of integrated services
at Mosaic Life Care in Saint Joseph, Mo., a Brightree customer.
Availability
Brightree Home Health and Hospice customers can access the CommonWell
Network starting mid-May. Customers can contact their Brightree account
manager for more information.
About Brightree
Brightree enables out-of-hospital care organizations to improve their
business performance and deliver better health outcomes. As an
industry-leading cloud-based healthcare IT company, Brightree provides
solutions and services for thousands of organizations in home medical
equipment and pharmacy, home health, hospice, orthotic and prosthetic,
home infusion, and rehabilitation home care. Brightree is a wholly owned
subsidiary of ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD). To learn more, visit www.brightree.com
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