Establishing clinical integration for providers across your community requires a great deal of technical coordination across disparate systems. Hospitals and health systems considering clinical integration should pursue a strategy that minimizes the impact on IT infrastructure and resources, as well as one that enables affiliated providers to leverage existing systems and workflows. And no clinical integration strategy will work if the delivery system doesn’t provide access to actionable information in a secure, easy-to-manage format.
Successful clinical integration requires a balanced approach that addresses complex technical issues such as patient identity management and formatting discrepancies while also providing affiliated providers with simple, easy access to clinical information that reinforces the delivery of quality care. A clinical integration strategy based on these principles will lay the foundation for much better operational, clinical and financial results in the long run.
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