This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

The following is a guest article by Sarah Bavar, RN, BSN, Director at ReMedi Health Solutions. At ReMedi, we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR.  Eventually, that information must be reconciled in the new system with all of the disparate sources, including legacy system(s), scanned documents, continuum of care documents (CCDs), and various databases (archives, HIEs, pharmacy databases, state registries, etc.). It’s just a question of when this happens and who does the work.  Healthcare organizations have two options for this. Clinicians can spend more time on each patient chart before, during, or after the clinic visit. Or, the organization can leverage an outsourced clinical data team to augment the abstraction efforts of the internal clinical staff.  For an even more in-depth view into our approach to chart abstraction, download our comprehensive whitepaper: How A Clinically Driven Chart Abstraction Process Improves the Continuum of Care. Clinicians vs. Abstractors: Who should do it? It takes about 20 minutes or more to sift through all of the disparate data sources to reconstruct an accurate patient chart in a new EHR. While the idea of having access to CCD data appears to be helpful, without referencing the legacy system simultaneously to reconcile it, the data itse...
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