The Challenge of Complete & Comprehensive Patient Data
Let’s face it – most, or nearly all, of us visit a variety of care providers for our health and well-being. This tends to increase as we get older – in fact, the average Medicare beneficiary visits a specialist over 5 times per year and a primary care provider (PCP) over 3 times per year, with 35% of this group seeing over 5 different physicians per year*. Additionally, virtual care appointments have grown significantly: a recent study uncovered that almost 80% of patients had a virtual visit with their own physician, while 20% had a virtual visit with an outside physician not likely to be familiar with them**.
All this poses a challenge to care providers of all types – whether brick & mortar hospitals and clinics, or digital health providers - since they often lack access to the complete and up-to-date clinical data for a given patient. Geographic mobility, age, medical emergencies and other factors contribute to the challenge of making optimal care decisions based on incomplete clinical data.
National health information networks like eHealth Exchange, Carequality, and CommonWell were developed to fill these information gaps. And federal regulatory frameworks like TEFCA – the US Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement – provide governance and guidance around the way data is accessed and used. Yet providers still face the challenge of managing connections to the networks, dealing with multiple care documents, and making the data meaningful and usable.
InterSystems Health Gateway Service
InterSystems Health Gateway Service is a cloud-based, on-demand service delivering near real-time, secure access to patient data from across the nation, within existing workflows and in easily used formats.
Suited to Your Users
to a Complex Challenge
Deployed as a Cloud Solution
InterSystems Health Gateway Service is deployed as a fully managed solution – we remove the burden of managing the implementation, hosting, and other deployment aspects. Customers can focus on day to day activities with the confidence of knowing up front what the managed service will cost and the associated SLAs.
InterSystems designs, hosts, and delivers the solution so you don’t need to purchase, operate, secure, and maintain the infrastructure yourself. The InterSystems Health Gateway Service includes:
Questions About the National Health Information Network
On average, Medicare beneficiaries visit specialists five or more times per year and primary care providers more than three times per year. The rise in virtual care appointments adds further complexity - 20% of patients have virtual care consults with physicians who may not be familiar with their medical history.
InterSystems Health Gateway Service aggregates patient data (from multiple records regardless of where the care was delivered) into usable formats for clinical care. It offers a simpler contracting framework and since it’s a cloud-based managed solution run on InterSystems private, secure cloud, so customers don’t have to tie up IT resources.
- Simplified Interoperability: The service provides quick access to comprehensive patient data through modern APIs, eliminating the need to negotiate multiple agreements and simplifying operational management.
- Better, Safer Patient Care: Access to more complete data reduces safety gaps like overlooked medication allergies. It supports improved care coordination and transitions, allowing healthcare organizations to leverage aggregated data for all treatment use cases.
- Real-time Data Access: The solution connects to national networks, delivering patient data in near real-time, relieving administrative burdens and eliminating delays in accessing health records.
InterSystems has been a leader in digital health since its inception. We understand the complexity of healthcare data and the importance of seamless data exchange across various systems and platforms. Our expertise in health data interoperability ensures that organizations can easily integrate and access comprehensive patient data, improving care coordination and operational efficiency. By partnering with InterSystems, organizations benefit from a trusted solution provider, as well as dedicated reliable and efficient health IT solutions.
With InterSystems Health Gateway Service, your clinicians get the information they need to deliver the best possible care, in the format that makes sense to them, with a single agreement and a single connection to simplify the management burden on your organization.
*National Library of Medicine
**Medscape
***Available in the U.S. only
