Designed to bridge critical communication gaps, Epic Care Everywhere ensures that healthcare providers have access to the most up-to-date patient information, helping to improve care coordination, reduce redundancies, and enhance patient outcomes.
This article explores the key capabilities and benefits of the Epic Care Everywhere solution and how it empowers organizations to streamline patient care and improve coordination across the complete care continuum.
What is Care Everywhere?
Epic Care Everywhere is a health information exchange (HIE) platform that allows healthcare providers to securely share electronic protected health information (ePHI) for treatment purposes. It enables healthcare providers to access, manage, and share patient medical information, further improving care coordination and streamlining patient outcomes.
Whether sharing medical records with specialists, facilitating cross-border patient care, or supporting emergency treatments, Epic Care Everywhere empowers healthcare providers to deliver more informed and efficient care in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.
Key Features and Benefits of Care Everywhere
Features
Secure data sharing
With robust encryption and adherence to HIPAA and other compliance standards, Care Everywhere ensures that patient data is exchanged securely and protects sensitive information and records.
EHR interoperability
Epic Care Everywhere facilitates seamless data exchange between healthcare organizations, ensuring patient information, such as medical history, lab results, and imaging, is readily available when and where it’s needed.
Care coordination
The Care Everywhere platform enhances care coordination and avoids unnecessary data duplication by enabling providers from different organizations to access a shared view of patient information.
Seamless network integration
By facilitating seamless integrations with national and international health information exchanges, Care Everywhere ensures continuity of care across regions and supports global health initiatives.
Emergency support
With the ability to share medical records instantly, the Care Everywhere platform ensures that emergency physicians or out-of-network specialists have access to critical medical history, facilitating accurate and effective care for individual patients.
Benefits
- Provides a secure network for health care providers to access, manage, and share protected health information from the existing electronic health record (EHR)
- Lets the healthcare provider securely access and update patient records and coordinate care across the continuum
- Leverages industry-standard transport protocols to ensure secure data exchange across organizational units and systems
- Improves care coordination and patient outcomes by providing healthcare providers access to complete and up-to-date patient medical information.
- Enhances patient safety by reducing the risk of medical errors caused by incomplete or inaccurate information.
- Increases efficiency by eliminating paper medical records and reducing the need for manual data entry and phone calls to obtain patient information
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From assessing your current Epic system setup and identifying key improvement areas to facilitating seamless integration between your health systems and external applications and guiding your internal teams through key project steps, Surety Systems is here to help.
Our senior-level Epic consultants have the skills and experience to handle your critical project needs and ensure your internal teams are prepared for continuous improvement and innovation.
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