Brightree Announces Access to CommonWell Health Alliance Network for Home Health and Hospice Customers
May 07 2019 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
- First CommonWell integration with a
member solely focused on post-acute care
- Enables Brightree customers to create a
broader view of a patient’s care by sharing information with more
than 50,000 healthcare provider locations
Brightree® today announced plans for its Home Health and Hospice
customers to access more than 50,000 provider locations and health
systems nationwide via the CommonWell Health Alliance, a nonprofit
national trade association of health IT companies, and through
CommonWell to Carequality, a national, consensus-built common
interoperability framework.
This represents an important step forward in bridging the gap
between out-of-hospital care providers and the broader care
ecosystem, solving for when providers lose visibility into their
patients’ care when they enter a post-acute care setting.
The power of CommonWell
Traditionally, home health and hospice agencies obtained
critical patient health data manually from each of a patient’s
other care providers. This required significant resources and often
resulted in large gaps in patients’ records, hindering the speed
and quality of care patients received.
Through CommonWell, Brightree Home Health and Hospice customers
will be able to quickly and easily retrieve documents and data from
a patient’s previous hospital and physician visits within their EMR
solution. They can also share patient updates with physicians and
other providers in the CommonWell network who serve that patient.
This seamless information exchange will help home health and
hospice agencies improve their efficiency, as well as patients’
care coordination and quality of care.
“What this amounts to is a smoother journey for patients moving
from care setting to care setting, which is traditionally difficult
to navigate,” said Nick Knowlton, Brightree vice president of
Business Development and CommonWell board vice chair. “Our
customers can now help provide a better experience more
efficiently, which can lead to improved outcomes. By including this
service in Brightree’s EMR offering, we are helping create a better
future for our providers and patients.”
“Our mission at CommonWell is to break down longtime
technological and process barriers so individuals and caregivers
can access important health data efficiently, affordably and
securely,” said Jitin Asnaani, executive director of CommonWell
Health Alliance. “We’re thrilled to be welcoming a new wave of home
health and hospice providers into the network, and commend
Brightree for its leadership in this space.”
In a forthcoming Brightree survey, 60 percent of referring
providers say they would select a post-acute care delivery partner
based on their ability to interoperate with the referral
source.
“Fluid data exchange is so critical to successful patient
management across a system of care, and Brightree is leading in
this space,” said Denise Schrader, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, vice president
of integrated services at Mosaic Life Care in Saint Joseph, Mo., a
Brightree customer.
Availability
Brightree Home Health and Hospice customers can access the
CommonWell Network starting mid-May. Customers can contact their
Brightree account manager for more information.
About Brightree
Brightree enables out-of-hospital care organizations to improve
their business performance and deliver better health outcomes. As
an industry-leading cloud-based healthcare IT company, Brightree
provides solutions and services for thousands of organizations in
home medical equipment and pharmacy, home health, hospice, orthotic
and prosthetic, home infusion, and rehabilitation home care.
Brightree is a wholly owned subsidiary of ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX:
RMD). To learn more, visit www.brightree.com and follow @Brightree
on Twitter.
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