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Not All Integrations Are the Same: Defining True EHR Integration in 2022
The second of a series of articles exploring how interoperability of cardiac monitoring platforms in digital health brings value to patients, practices, physicians, and populations.
The Significance of Powerful Data Exchange
Often, a patient’s health data is captured and stored in disparate systems and formats, making it difficult to exchange information between electronic health records (EHRs) and digital health platforms.
To support the level of interoperability needed to counter this difficulty in today’s digital health environment, PaceMate™ has built its premium cardiac remote monitoring software with a unique capability—standardized, vendor-approved Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that can push or pull any datapoint, exchanging data with the patient’s EHR and eliminating time-consuming manual data entry.
PaceMate™ utilizes the HL7® and FHIR® APIs standard for this streamlined exchange of health information. FHIR® APIs are Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources for Application Programming Interfaces—they facilitate the automatic exchange of information and allow technical solutions to talk to one another in the same language.
Automatically Pulling EHR Data
This uniquely built capability allows our premium software, PaceMate™LIVE, to automatically pull multiple data elements from the patient’s EHR every time a report is received from a vendor. These datapoints include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Patient demographic data, with 100% accurate patient matching
- ICD-10 diagnosis codes from a patient’s problems list
- Care team details
- Active medications list, including dosages and date of last reconciliation
- Hospitalization encounter information
Clearly, the potential impact on health outcomes is great when PaceMate™ data and EHR data are married for real-time clinical decision-making at the point of care. The HL7® and FHIR® API standard, available through PaceMate™’s integration offering, empowers health data interoperability by setting an industry benchmark and enabling ease of adoption and implementation. This solution supports the paradigm shift within healthcare IT.
PaceMate™ Integrations Are Vendor-Approved
In addition to PaceMate™’s FHIR® APIs offering next-level interoperability, major EHR companies are carefully vetting digital health platforms wishing to partner with them for this technology. PaceMate™ is proud to be listed in Epic’s App Orchard and the athenahealth® Marketplace. Vendor selection for participation in these EHR networks is based on a company’s ability to meet rigorous screening and evaluation processes. The extensive due diligence process is the ultimate validation of integration capabilities and compliance with the highest level of security measures. These are industry-leading communities for interoperability in healthcare.
PaceMate™ was the very first cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) remote monitoring platform to be listed in both Epic’s App Orchard and the athenahealth® Marketplace. Additionally, as the first to collaborate with Cerner on cardiac device workflow integration design, PaceMate™ is scheduled to complete the Cerner Open Developer Experience (CODE) program’s validation sprint. Once a vendor platform has been accepted into these EHR networks, the prescriptive integration process is available for EHR customers as a verified solution with proven integration, security, and performance.
Built for Scalability, Speed, and Predictability
PaceMate™’s vendor-approved FHIR® API data exchange has been designed to streamline cardiac device data management for remote monitoring customers. Our integrations are built from FHIR® APIs and reduce the resource need for one-off builds for each new EHR customer. These FHIR® API integrations enable our software to scale across a health system’s customer base.
Furthermore, PaceMate™ eliminates the need for hospitals and clinics to integrate with multiple vendors: Integration with our platform currently supports access to 9 top cardiac device manufacturers. This tremendous advantage promotes cost savings and IT resource conservation.
No-Hassle Claims
PaceMate™LIVE’s unique API-enabled billing automation promotes compliant operational efficiencies for clinics and hospital systems by eliminating much of the manual billing labor often required of clinicians and billing or coding staff.
For PaceMate™ customers, when a provider applies an electronic signature to a report, PaceMate™’s robust billing rules engine identifies all billable transmissions, applies the appropriate CPT code(s), and supports automated claim creation within the practice’s revenue cycle software. Countless hours of manual data entry are saved through this automated capability, promoting cost savings, top-of-license work, and increased revenue capture.
Experience ultimate scalability and predictability, benefit from our custom APIs, and find out more about true EHR integration within the world of cardiac remote monitoring.
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This article is published with support from PaceMate™.
