Competitive market, physician alignment also key considerations
ATLANTA, September 20, 2011 - CaroMont Health, a 435-
bed, regional not-for-profit healthcare system in Gastonia, North
Carolina, has chosen RelayHealth to facilitate enterprise health information exchange (HIE) between the hospital, its employed physicians and affiliated physicians.
"Effective care coordination is key to continued healthcare quality,"
said Mike Johnson, assistant VP/CIO, CaroMont Health. "This is a
competitive market and we want to be the health system of choice for
both physicians and patients. Choosing RelayHealth for secure health information exchange
between all healthcare participants will help us effectively coordinate
our care and is a significant piece in maintaining excellence in the
quality of care we deliver."
Johnson cited RelayHealth’s secure provider-to-provider messaging,
electronic results management and ease of implementation as factors in
the selection of RelayHealth for CaroMont’s enterprise health information exchange.
More than 100 employed physicians will be the first to implement the
system with approximately 200 employed and affiliated physicians to
follow.
"Our employed physicians are all adopting the same electronic medical
record (EMR) system," Johnson stated. "Our affiliated physicians,
however, use a wide variety of EMRs. By choosing RelayHealth for health information exchange,
we’ll be able to share information with all of the EMR systems used by
our CaroMont physicians and our affiliated physicians. Additionally,
physicians will be able to securely communicate with patients through
the RelayHealth portal."
"Hospitals and health systems – particularly those in highly competitive environments like CaroMont – are choosing enterprise health information exchange
as a powerful way to differentiate themselves to patients and
physicians," said Jim Bodenbender, president, RelayHealth Connectivity
Solutions. "CaroMont Health’s vision for the future of connected
healthcare through health information exchange and its commitment to the communities it serves is commendable."
About CaroMont Health
CaroMont Health in Gastonia, North Carolina, is a regional, independent,
not-for-profit health care system and nationally-recognized
"value-based" health care provider (high quality, low cost). CaroMont
Health is the only hospital in the region named by Thomson Reuters as a
100 Top Hospital for quality care and is one of two HealthGrades'
Clinical Excellence recipients in North Carolina. CaroMont Health is
among an elite group of 22 selected participants (out of 3,000 national
hospitals/systems) engaged in demonstrating "Accountable Care
Organizations" (hospitals focused on accountability for highest outcomes
at the lowest cost for individualized patient care).
About RelayHealth
RelayHealth, McKesson’s connectivity business, enables the secure
exchange of clinical, financial and administrative information between
patients, providers, payers, pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers
and government agencies. RelayHealth processes nearly 15 billion
healthcare transactions annually as the result of integrating the
delivery of high-quality care and improving the financial outcomes for
its customers. For more information, call 888.743.8735, or visit our Web
site at www.RelayHealth.com. Follow us on Twitter (@RelayHealth) or visit the RelayHealth Facebook page.
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