{"id":10161,"date":"2020-05-08T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/?p=10161"},"modified":"2022-04-22T11:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:17:06","slug":"drive-care-coordination-by-streamlining-interoperability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/drive-care-coordination-by-streamlining-interoperability\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive Care Coordination by Streamlining Interoperability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving care coordination is an essential aspect to provide quality of care to the patient who are transitioning from one healthcare system to others. Smooth <strong><a title=\"transition of healthcare data\" href=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/transitional-care-management-an-oppurtunity-for-healthcare-professionals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transition of healthcare data<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0between those healthcare systems, strengthens the level of care and reduces the multiple cost behind it. Therefore, it is well said that <strong><a title=\"Interoperability\" href=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/healthcare-interoperability-offers-advantages-to-providers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interoperability<\/a><\/strong> is the heart of <a title=\"care coordination\" href=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/7-features-you-shouldnt-ignore-when-se=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>care coordination<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the growth in <a title=\"Electronic Health Record (EHR)\" href=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/productsservices\/ambulatory-ehr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Electronic Health Record (EHR)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and technology adoption in healthcare organizations, hospitals, and clinics, there is a huge communication gap between the systems. Therefore, these systems continue to contribute to data silos that make interoperability a significant challenge, and hence care coordination drops off the slide without even getting noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Shifting healthcare systems towards <strong><a title=\"coordinated care settings\" href=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/productsservices\/care-coordination-and-analytics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coordinated care settings<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and tying them together under one communication channel, where one system can seamlessly exchange data with another, under full privacy and security, is the hardest part of the healthcare ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10139 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/How-iPatientCare-is-arming-its-providers-to-combat-COVID-19-1.jpg\" alt=\"Drive Care Coordination by Streamlining Interoperability\" width=\"744\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/How-iPatientCare-is-arming-its-providers-to-combat-COVID-19-1.jpg 744w, https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/How-iPatientCare-is-arming-its-providers-to-combat-COVID-19-1-300x28.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see how we can streamline interoperability to drive care coordination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Point-to-point integration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Point to point integration links the sender system directly with the receiver, via a specialized interface code provided by the vendor.<\/li>\n<li>Point to point integration simply implies that a transient message sent from a data source such as a cloud computing EHR hosting center, to a data recipient such as an e-prescribing gateway, a healthcare information exchange, or payer.<\/li>\n<li>The language of each message sent, won\u2019t be affected when it reaches to the receiver.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Challenges with point to point integration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It does not work for complex scenarios such as an emergency department requesting for the lifetime clinical record of a person from all the places their data exists in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Auditing the clinical records between two organizations based on transient messages is more challenging<\/li>\n<li>Recreating a damaged clinical record by replaying transient messages from an interface engine is harder.<\/li>\n<li>Since each connection requires its own set of codes, point to point integration becomes quite expensive and the security of information is also a considerable challenge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Application programming interface (API):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Information exchange is more organized than point-to-point connections.<\/li>\n<li>API binds together different systems to allow secure data exchange that doesn\u2019t rely on static, document-based exchange.<\/li>\n<li>API likely uses different languages, so one system can\u2019t fully consume and use information from another system.<\/li>\n<li>Using open API providers and patients can collect, analysis and access healthcare information and make updates.<\/li>\n<li>Using the right tools, providers can interact with each other and can access critical information at the point of care.<\/li>\n<li>Open APIs can help providers to have easy and efficient access to a particular clinical data that supports their decision making with more informed choices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Challenges with API development:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As time passes, API becomes more and more inefficient until they are not allowed to merge with newer technologies.<\/li>\n<li>The shortage of API developers, without a vibrant developer crafting APIs is difficult.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of effective tools for designing, testing, and monitoring APIs.<\/li>\n<li>API development requires constant feedback and reviewing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FHIR is a data standard designed to encourage patient data portability and accessibility.<\/li>\n<li>FHIR uses universally structured data to assist in automated clinical decision support and machine-based processing.<\/li>\n<li>Several trends are driving the adoption of FHIR in healthcare, most significant of them is a need for real-time access to clinical data via APIs.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0FHIR is a simplified but powerful reinvention of CCDA, HL7 v3, and HL7 v2.<\/li>\n<li>FHIR works on the same web technology as social media, e-commerce websites and search engines, so sharing data scattered across multiple systems, in real-time isn\u2019t difficult.<\/li>\n<li>FHIR doesn\u2019t have to undergo any modifications for any information-exchange protocol- REST, HL7, or CCDA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Challenges with FHIR:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If different versions of FHIR are implemented in different systems, the two systems aren\u2019t actually interoperable at all.<\/li>\n<li>When EHR vendors don\u2019t implement all available FHIR APIs \u2013 or if they don\u2019t implement the entire API, then it results in inconsistency. These inconsistencies undermine the goal of achieving interoperability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Direct Secure Messaging:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Direct secure messaging is a digital messaging tool similar to email.<\/li>\n<li>It is used to communicate pharmacy prescriptions, referrals, admissions, discharges, transfers, automated push-event notifications, and even messaging directly to patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Challenges with Direct Secure Messaging:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many people find Direct Secure Messaging complicated and not user-friendly.<\/li>\n<li>Sending a message requires a unique Direct address and knowing your recipient\u2019s address and therefore &#8211; providers, insurers, and labs aren\u2019t direct users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10139 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/How-iPatientCare-is-arming-its-providers-to-combat-COVID-19-1.jpg\" alt=\"Drive Care Coordination by Streamlining Interoperability\" width=\"744\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/How-iPatientCare-is-arming-its-providers-to-combat-COVID-19-1.jpg 744w, https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/How-iPatientCare-is-arming-its-providers-to-combat-COVID-19-1-300x28.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best of the above-mentioned technologies promotes interoperability\u00a0by connecting the entire healthcare ecosystem. Providers can send, receive, find, and access patient\u2019s data to coordinate continuous care.<\/p>\n<p>If you are here looking for data interoperability software\u00a0to improve easy and secure data exchange with other providers, laboratories, pharmacies, immunization\/disease registries, and many more then you must have a demo of <strong><a title=\"iPatientCare\u2019s Interoperability software\" href=\"https:\/\/ipatientcare.com\/schedule-a-live-web-demo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iPatientCare\u2019s Interoperability software<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving care coordination is an essential aspect to provide quality of care to the patient who are transitioning from one healthcare system to others. Smooth transition of healthcare data\u00a0between those healthcare systems, strengthens the level of care and reduces the multiple cost behind it. 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