Cost-Effective Patient Data Sharing for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
According to the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) are community-based organizations that provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care, regardless of their ability to pay or health insurance status.
For these critical organizations, the ability to provide effective health data sharing is vital for offering enhanced care to more vulnerable health populations. The challenge is that many of these organizations lack the investment needed for EHR systems that interoperate with each other. They also lack connections to national data sharing frameworks such as CommonWell or Carequality.
According to a new whitepaper published by CareAdvisors, FQHCs often rely on an assortment of strategies to access patient health information, which can lead to poor care delivery. In addition, the lack of access to timely patient data can lead to duplicate and expensive procedures.
Thankfully, there are more cost-effective health data exchange solutions. As an example, the HIT market no longer treats connectivity as a cottage industry – with custom point-to-point connections. Today’s SaaS-based interoperability solutions are commoditizing connectivity to make it easier to share patient health data.
For example, the RosettaHealth HealthBus platform leverages technology, server-less, and cloud infrastructure to provide scalable, secure information transport, data wrangling, and orchestration services – removing development time, cost and maintenance of in-house infrastructure.
With FQHCs providing critical health services to our most vulnerable populations, the ability to leverage health data exchange capabilities for enhancing care quality, and driving down costs is paramount. Fortunately, there are solutions that make health data interoperability ubiquitous and more cost-effective.
RosettaHealth can assist with any health information challenges you might have, book a free consultation with one of our interoperability experts.