P2POpen Network Exchanges 1.5 Million Medical Referrals
July 29 2015 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
eClinicalWorks Also Receives EHNAC-DirectTrust
Accreditation, Further Demonstrating its Commitment to
Interoperability
eClinicalWorks®, a leader in ambulatory healthcare IT solutions,
today announces its free, electronic health record (EHR)
vendor-neutral network, P2POpen, has exchanged one and a half
million referrals between medical providers utilizing a variety of
systems. Total communications to date is two million referrals,
consults and messages for this network that ensures healthcare
providers can connect with each other for patient care regardless
of what EHR system is in use or if the practice is using paper
records. The company has taken an additional step by receiving full
accreditation as a health information service provider, or HISP,
from EHNAC-DirectTrust for eClinicalWorks’ eClinicalDirect.
“As a primary care physician, I regularly collaborate with other
providers regarding my patients,” said Dr. Bradley Block, of Block,
Nation, Chase & Smolen Family Medicine from Oviedo, Fla.
“Thanks to P2POpen, we are able to communicate with other providers
using a fast, easy and secure platform in which we have built a
very large community of providers. P2POpen has also provided us
with a medical data sharing capability for maintaining and sharing
accurate, reliable and consistent data on patients managed by
multiple providers in separate, independent physician practices.
For me, P2POpen does not just stand for ‘Peer to Peer’ Information
Sharing, but should also be known as ‘Peer = Peer’.”
In order to maximize investments in electronic health records,
pertinent information related to patient care needs to be exchanged
regardless of the system used. A lack of interoperability is a
significant barrier to patient satisfaction and improving patient
care. To that end, eClinicalWorks has been pursing multiple
avenues to ensure interoperability in several formats.
eClinicalWorks P2POpen network is an open peer to peer network of
85,000 providers, 1 in 5 of whom are using a different EHR system
than eClinicalWorks, that share relevant information between
providers regardless of the system they are using. This
system-neutral solution allows the open, electronic transfer of
records between any healthcare provider.
Separately, DirectTrust, a non-profit healthcare industry
alliance that advances secure and trusted heath information
exchange by the Direct Protocol, has awarded eClinicalDirect full
accreditation in the EHNAC-DirectTrust Direct Trusted Agent
Accreditation Program (DTAAP).
“We believe that optimal physician collaboration is central to
improving the overall quality of patient care,” said Girish Navani,
CEO and co-founder of eClinicalWorks. “Communication between EHRs
aids the delivery of care and advances the industry as a whole. It
is great to see how welcoming providers have been to P2POpen as a
means to exchange information with their peers. We are also excited
to be a part of DirectTrust and help move the industry
forward.”
P2POpen supports national standards and makes interoperability
affordable. Members that Join the Network are able to:
- Easily find and connect with
providers;
- Send electronic referrals to other
providers along with demographic and insurance information, saving
time and reducing errors;
- Transmit patient records with
attachments, including progress notes, lab results, medical summary
and patient scanned documents;
- Automatically receive recommended
providers in the area;
- Find providers using a member-specified
radius and specialty; and
- Build personal address book.
About eClinicalWorkseClinicalWorks® is a privately-held
leader in ambulatory healthcare IT solutions. With physicians
across all 50 states using its solutions, customers include ACOs,
physician practices, out-patient departments of hospitals,
community health centers, departments of health and convenient care
clinics. Thirteen eClinicalWorks customers have received the
prestigious HIMSS Davies Awards during the past eight years,
honoring excellence in electronic health record implementation. The
company is second largest in the country for e-prescribing. Based
in Westborough, Mass., eClinicalWorks has additional offices in New
York City, Chicago, California and Georgia. For more information,
please visit www.eclinicalworks.com, Facebook, Twitter or call
866-888-6929.
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