SMRTNET Advantages to Hospitals
Patients use many providers and therefore have many disconnected medical records. Examples of this include hospitals, specialists, pharmacies, laboratories, public clinics, community health centers, Native American facilities, university sponsored practices and records with other providers. SMRTNET allows the rapid and automated transfer of this information under HIPAA through a public non-profit oversight board.
SMRTNET is recognized nationally as one of the top twelve HIE leaders in the country, is operated by Oklahoma data providers, has been sustainable and free of grant or government support for three years and has securely connected data and providers across all 77 Oklahoma counties during that time. By December of 2011 twenty-eight hospitals in Oklahoma trusted SMRTNET to be their health information exchange.
SMRTNET:
- Improves safety, speed and accuracy of care by facilitating a global medical view of care from all sources in the community and across the state. Includes updated information on demographics, provider, allergies and reactions, diagnosis, medications, procedures, lab results, immunizations and reports such as EKG, radiology for hospital providers during the patient encounter.
- Important for recruiting and retaining physicians who now require electronic connectivity to practice due to meaningful use and patient centered medical home
- Improves referral to the local hospital as area physicians are more likely to hospitalize locally as physicians can track care 24/7 from anywhere with internet access,
- Encourages use of hospital lab as data can be accessed by the physician via SMRTNET
- Meets requirements for interoperability under meaningful use and assists with many other functional requirements. Assists in nearly all meaningful use stage 2 requirements
- Provides a nationally certified secure messaging system that allows any participating office to securely send and receive messages and referrals between provider offices and institutions
- Saves on interface costs as SMRTNET can connect local EHRs and send required reporting information to OSDH and other sources
- Does not require provider to have active EHR as the information is available via secure web portal. Connects to certified EHRs of choice by hospital or provider office
- Improves key hospital quality measures by providing information of services already provided by other providers or health systems
If you would like a SMRTNET representative to contact you about Health Information Exchange for your facility and a SMRTNET representative will contact you within 48 hours.
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