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Enhancing the Abilities of Healthcare SectorElectronic health record integration connects the EHR software at medical organizations with other relevant software solutions used for operations. This is done so that healthcare providers and other concerned staff from various departments can access medical records for their jobs. Electronic health record integration is achieved through an application programming interface (API) bridging software. The integration of EHR systems is called healthcare interoperability, and it works by facilitating seamless electronic data exchange between software platforms at a hospital or clinic. In other words, integration enables patients’ health records to be accessed across other software solutions, allowing greater cohesion and productivity across an organization.
Telehealth has gone from being just an idea to being implemented across the globe thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. A telehealth application allows doctors and patients to connect for a virtual consultation without being in the city. OSP can design specific APIs for integrating an electronic health record solution with a telehealth platform. This will enable doctors to access patients’ health histories during a consultation, view recent test results and scans, and arrive at diagnoses.
Access to health history is vital for effective care, and with an EHR integration, a telehealth platform will enable doctors to serve their patients better. This would be especially helpful for patients who might not be able to travel.
A practice management solution is a platform that allows providers to manage the clinical and administrative aspects of their practices. EHR software would form the heart of a practice management platform. OSP can build solutions for EHR and practice management or develop APIs for EHR integration for practice management. This will allow single-physician practices to have an aggregated interface to handle the day-to-day workflows of their practice.
Activities like insurance verification, medical coding, billing, and claims can all be carried out by fetching patient data from an EHR at a practice. This would reduce the overhead significantly while also boosting the doctors’ healthcare management efficiency.
A laboratory information management system (LIMS) is a platform for administrating operations at medical testing laboratories. OSP can design and develop both LIMS solutions as well as EHR systems. In addition to integrating the two. This would enable test results to be uploaded directly to patient records, allowing treating doctors to view them securely. At large hospitals with an in-house testing laboratory, this feature eliminates the need for physically printed reports, saving paper and time for handling them.
Moreover, integrating an EHR with a LIMS makes it faster and easier for physicians to view them and make important notes. These, in turn, could also be updated to the medical records, leading to efficient medical records management.
A digital platform for hospital management streamlines all the activities involved in administrative operations at hospitals. Electronic health record systems are the cornerstone of hospital systems. OSP can design and build APIs to facilitate EHR integration with hospital systems for consolidating clinical and billing workflows. It would enable doctors from every department to access EHR and view their patients’ health histories. Additionally, the staff involved in medical coding, billing, and claims would also be able to access the required data.
In other words, an EHR integration with a hospital system helps clinical care and streamlines billing and administration. It also paves the way for integrated healthcare solutions where multiple physicians can coordinate care.
Healthcare operations generate large quantities of data about both clinical and non-clinical activities. EHR integration software that connects medical records with broader hospital systems also enables the use of medical informatics and healthcare analytics solutions. These garner actionable insights from operational data and help providers make informed treatment decisions. OSP’s medical integration services can help hospitals leverage analytics to identify patterns that point to the causes of inefficiencies and take steps to correct them.
The insights derived from analytics solutions help doctors know which patients are at greater risk and identify patterns in the spread of disease. This would facilitate better population health management during outbreaks and epidemics.
OSP’s decade-long experience in healthcare technology has provided a keen insight into the industry. We can design tailored EHR integration solutions to suit the needs of all kinds of healthcare organizations. This includes large hospitals, ambulatory clinics, single-physician practices, dental clinics, physiotherapy, and mental health centers. We will assess your systems and formulate a roadmap to facilitate the seamless integration of EMR software systems with existing software platforms.
For cloud-based medical software platforms, we can develop custom APIs and help small practices adapt to cloud computing in healthcare. Moreover, we will ensure that existing HIPAA-compliant solutions will continue to protect data privacy after integration.
When all the departments and staff at a hospital or clinic can work cohesively and exchange required information without hassle, they can be more productive. In other words, they can work faster and with greater efficiency. A digital platform ensures that accessing information for care, billing, or administration takes a few clicks, which means that a relatively smaller staff can do more. As a result, there is a reduction in overhead.
A comprehensive digital platform incorporating all the healthcare software through EHR integration ultimately leads to fast and efficient operations. Providers would access patient data faster, the activities surrounding insurance verification, billing, and claims would be sped up, and the wait times would be reduced. This ultimately adds to a better patient experience regarding non-clinical aspects of healthcare. This also permeates into better care, which further benefits patients.
The existing software platforms must incorporate more third-party applications as a hospital grows and offers more services. OSP can offer EHR integration solutions that are scalable and which can accommodate growing numbers of solutions. This will be especially beneficial for hospitals looking to expand their services since scalable EHR integration would prevent the need for revamping the entire digital infrastructure.
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We reached out to OSP to provide an estimate on a technology solution we were interested in developing. From the initial conversation, the team was professional, courteous, and thorough. We were able to make a quick decision to move forward with OSP because we were confident that our requirements were accurately captured and the development deliverables and associated costs were clear.
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EHR integration enables a medical records solution to exchange data with other software for day-to-day workflows. This integration allows two software platforms from varying programming languages, data formats, and standards to communicate information seamlessly.
EHR integration enables the platform to exchange data with other medical software platforms quickly and securely. The ability to send and receive patient data with a few clicks maximizes the speed and productivity of all workflows at healthcare organizations. This means that the billing, coding, claims, testing, and front-office administration staff can access all the necessary information and work faster.
EHR integration services enable providers to get the complete medical information of their patients from any location. This lets them know their patients’ health situation and make better decisions. This is especially important during emergencies. An EHR integration API ultimately helps providers serve their patients better.
In addition to clinical care, integration allows the productivity of front-office operations. Activities like insurance verification, pre-authorization, medical coding, billing, and claims generation are accelerated. As a result, there are fewer claim denials, unexpected charges, reduced wait times, and fewer treatment errors. This improves the overall experience for the patients.
EMR stands for electronic medical records, whereas EHR stands for electronic health records. An EMR is a patient’s medical chart in digital format. But an EHR is the complete medical information about a patient. The EHR would contain medical history, demographic information, insurance information, immunizations, allergies, payment history, etc.
An EMR is restricted to a single practice or clinic. On the other hand, an EHR can be shared outside an organization with other providers for collaboration.
These include a list of things that legally identifies a person. It can include name, social security number, patient identification number, contact number, picture, etc.
This includes the patients’ personal information like name, date of birth, address, and insurance information.
These contain all the diagnoses made for a patient during their lifetime through blood tests, scans, etc.
As the name suggests, this includes all the medications prescribed to the patients and medications that the patient might still be taking.
This includes all the results garnered from testing a patient’s blood, saliva, stools, and urine.
Vital signs include heart rate, electrocardiogram, blood pressure, body temperature, and oxygen saturation. These indicate the basic health of a person.
EHR integration would allow medical organizations to exchange sensitive patient data among various departments and other organizations. This raises the question of the compatibility of the software platforms to exchange data. That is because all those software solutions would be developed by different companies using varying programming languages, tech stacks, data formats, and standards.
Any problems with integration would raise issues about the ability of the systems to share data securely. Integration problems could unintentionally result in data being accessed by unauthorized individuals or parts of it being corrupted. Either of these could jeopardize the confidentiality or integrity of patients’ health information.
EHR integration software allows multiple health systems to exchange patients’ medical data quickly and easily. This gives providers a more complete picture of their patient’s health. The integration itself is possible through the use of a type of software called application programming interface (API).
While two or more healthcare software platforms might be developed differently, integrating them allows data exchange. The API acts as a bridging software that translates the data formats when the data travels between systems, allowing it to be read and processed by the recipient. EHR integration enables different systems to interoperate to boost the productivity of workflows.
It is one of the most widely-used interoperability platforms for medical data transfer.
EPIC’s EHR has been consistently ranked highly by surveys. It facilitates easy and seamless integration.
It is one of the world’s largest suppliers of healthcare information technology solutions. It has made significant strides in promoting interoperability in its solutions.
It develops leading solutions with a keen focus on value-based care.
