USQHIN Launches National ADT Hub Network (NAHN)
Last week, USQHIN announced the launch of an innovative and collaborative National ADT Hub Network (NAHN) to better enable national public health use cases and various federal interoperability goals.
The National ADT Hub Network is USQHIN’s first use case and aims to foster collaboration between vendors, health information exchanges, health systems, government agencies, and health insurers.
By working together, participating “Gateway Partners” demonstrate their commitment to addressing individual patient well-being, critical national public health needs, and the greater good.
ADT notifications are sent when a patient is admitted to a facility, transferred within the facility, or discharged from the facility. Notifications are then sent to update physicians and care management teams on a patient’s status, thus improving post-discharge transitions, prompting follow-up, reducing readmissions, improving communication among providers, and supporting patients with multiple or chronic conditions.
These notifications can also serve an important role in being able to distribute demographic data and other attributes about patients quickly and efficiently to a patient’s extended care team.
In other ADT-related news, DirectTrust announced the launch of its Implementation Guide for Event Notifications via the Direct Standard, a Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU), to address the admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) notifications from the CMS interoperability rule.
This implementation guide aims to help providers fulfill a CMS condition of participation that will require all hospitals to send outbound event notifications by May 2021.
In the coming weeks, we will be publishing a RosettaHealth podcast with USQHIN, along with the full Velatura Public Benefit Corporation team, about how they are bringing a new model of health data exchange to the marketplace.
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