While the post-acute care (PAC) arena has made strides in health data exchange, there’s still more room for improvement when it comes to leveraging advanced health data exchange capabilities, according to a new study.

In the study commissioned by Matrixcare with Porter Research, which survey collected insights from 300 home-based care providers and 100 referring physicians, care navigators, and discharge planners, 79 percent of the respondents stated that they are not fully satisfied with their EHR system’s ability to support interoperability efforts.

In addition, the majority of referring physicians, care navigators, and discharge planners (85 percent) reported that they were not fully satisfied with PAC providers’ ability to receive electronic referrals.

What is the most standout finding of the study is that many PAC providers still use traditional means of sending and receiving referrals, such as phone and fax. In fact, only half of PAC providers can receive and use referral data sent electronically by providers, as highlighted in this recent EHR Intelligence article.

Thankfully, PAC health data exchange can be enhanced with today’s SaaS-based solutions. For example, the RosettaHealth HealthBus platform leverages technology, server-less, and cloud infrastructure to provide scalable, secure information transport, data wrangling, and orchestration services.

In addition, the RosettaHealth platform can easily streamline the referral process for PACs. Specifically, the solution accepts Direct-based referrals from any EHR system with no integration, presents the referral in an easy to understand and actionable manner, contains a standards-based electronic medical record for automatically creating a patient's record in your system. It also includes critical medical information about the patient, including demographics, vitals, and lab results.

It certainly seems that PACs have made tremendous strides when it comes to leveraging health data exchange solutions, but there’s always room for improvement – as highlighted by this study.

 RosettaHealth can assist with any health information challenges you might have, book a free consultation with one of our interoperability experts.