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iShare Medical Teams up with Broad Coalition of Healthcare Providers and Technology Vendors in Adopting Event Notification via Direct Standard to Improve Care Coordination

Kansas City, MO – iShare Medical together with AllScripts, Athena Health, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, EPIC, Mayo Clinic, the Office of National Coordinator for HealthIT, the Social Security Administration, Sutter Health, United Healthcare and more united to create and adopt the Event Notifications via Direct Standard  (see https://tinyurl.com/DirectTrustNotifications ) to meet a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule.  “The group quickly came to the consensus that it just made sense to use the Direct Standard because Direct Messaging is required to be in every Certified EHR Technology” said iShare Medical’s Founder, President/CEO Linda Van Horn.  “Event Notifications via the Direct Standard is the fastest and most economical way to enable nationwide sharing of Event Notifications”.

Starting on May 1, 2021, CMS mandated that hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and critical access hospitals send real-time automated electronic Event Notifications upon Admission, Discharge, or Transfer (sometimes referred to as ADT Messages) to the patients treating providers and other entities identified by the patient. This new requirement is a “Condition of Medicare Participation” which means hospitals must comply or risk losing participation in and payment from Medicare and Medicaid.  This is a pretty big hammer as Medicare and Medicaid in 2019 accounted for 37% of national health expenditures.  Further, Medicare is expected to have the highest growth rate in spending over the next ten years, estimated to be 7.6%.

There are more than 72 million hospital admissions, discharges, and transfers in the U.S. each year. In the past, there was no requirement for hospitals to notify the patient’s physicians when the patient was admitted, transferred, or discharged. That’s all changed.  CMS now requires hospitals to make a reasonable attempt to notify patients’ physicians to help better coordinate care.

iShare Medical has taken this standard further by providing real-time notifications when a patient is admitted, transferred, or discharged from the hospital and by automating the workflow to improve care coordination, saving both time and money.  For example, when a Discharge Event Notification message is triggered, iShare Medical simultaneously notifies both the patient’s physician and scheduling so that the scheduler can set up an office visit within 30 days of the patient’s discharge.  An NIH-published study reports that when patients are seen by their primary care physician within 30 days of discharge, preventable hospital readmissions can be reduced by 12%, saving Medicare $1.2 billion annually1. 

There are two key parties involved in iShare Medical Event Notifications communication:

• Senders - hospitals that send Event Notifications to treating providers and others identified by the patient
• Receivers – the treating providers, their staff, insurers, including case managers and accountable care organizations, and others identified by the patients who need to be able to receive them.

iShare Medical seamlessly enables both the sending of Events from the hospital’s EHR and the receiving of notifications into the provider’s EHR by using iShare Medical Event Notifications API.  Hospitals often know the provider to be notified but, they don’t have their electronic endpoint known as a Direct Address.  iShare Medical helps with that, too, by integrating iShare Medical Event Notifications with iShare Medical’s Directory API to lookup provider Direct Addresses and seamlessly route the message to the appropriate providers and staff directly.

With one subscription to iShare Medical Event Notifications, hospitals and providers can send and receive Event Notifications over the iShare Medical nationwide network of over 2.8 million Direct Addresses.  This helps the treating patients, providers, and payers to improve care coordination and reduce the cost of preventable hospital readmissions.  “It’s about getting get the right information, on the right patient, to the right provider, at the right time, every time,” said Van Horn. 

To learn more about how iShare Medical Event Notifications is helping patients, providers, and payers send and receive event notifications visit https://resources.isharemedical.com/benefits-of-notifications or call 816.249.2555 ext. 1.

About iShare Medical

iShare Medical is the trusted online platform for securing, sending, and sharing medical health information among patients, providers, and payers. Our proprietary software promotes interoperability and spans a nationwide network has more than 2.5 million healthcare providers. iShare Medical is EHNAC Accredited for HIPAA Privacy and Security, is a DirectTrust Accredited Trust Anchor, and is one of only three companies to achieve EHNAC Accreditation as a TNAP-QHIN. To learn more, visit https://www.isharemedical.com, contact info@isharemedical.com.

Contact Information:

Linda Van Horn, MBA

Founder, President/CEO

iShare Medical

www.iShareMedical.com

816.249.2555 ext. 101

l.vanhorn@iShareMedical.com

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