Among your many problems treating patients today, you’ll be surprised to learn that you can easily manage perhaps the most intractable one — patient record interoperability — and everyone will benefit when you do! When handled correctly:
- you and other clinicians can deliver better care, be happier, more efficient and less subject to burnout.
- your patients can better manage their care, share their records with whomever they please, and save money.
- payers can save money by paying fewer claims and lower premiums, and pay a small fraction of their savings as financial incentives to patients and providers like you.
- your practice and hospital can better serve your community and enjoy increased profits.
The Correct Interoperability Test
To your patient, there is only one measure of interoperability that counts: Can you access his complete medical record from all his providers at the point of care?
- If you can, you can understand his history, prior issues and treatment, and truly coordinate his care.
- If you can’t or can only access some of his records from his other providers, you may commit costly medical errors that harm rather than help him — perhaps even kill him, or require visits, tests and procedures that add unnecessarily to his healthcare costs.
Today’s widely accepted approach to interoperability fails this test badly. Instead of focusing on whether a patient’s complete record is available in the exam room, it focuses on the number of records shared throughout the country!
For example, CareQuality, an EMR vendor network, trumpets that it enables 350 million medical records to be shared each month. While that’s a big, impressive number it, in fact, represents only 0.5% of the 66 billion-or-so existing records. Thus, under this system, you at best can access SOME of your patient’s records from SOME of his other providers, but you CAN’T access ALL his records from ALL his providers! Making matters worse, you have no idea which records are missing; they may be the very ones you need!
This raises the obvious question: Isn’t there a simpler, easier-to-use, less expensive, better way to achieve interoperability? The answer is a resounding YES! It’s called MedKaz® — and it’s available today!
MedKaz Passes the Interoperability Test With Flying Colors
MedKaz is a unique, secure, groundbreaking system that assembles a patient’s records from all his or her providers, and the application to manage them, on a MedKaz mini drive which your patient owns and shares with you and his other providers in the exam room. You are paid financial incentives to use it; when you do, you materially increase your profits!
- You use it ALONGSIDE your EMR system, on a standalone computer or tablet, as the ultimate source of information about your patient — to understand his medical history and background, and to access his other doctors’ records so you can deliver better, coordinated, lower-cost care.
- At the start of a visit, MedKaz generates a Health Summary and other important information which save you three to six minutes getting up-to-speed with his issues.
- Next you examine him, and when you need to know more about specific issues and the care he is receiving or has received from his other providers, you instantly search his MedKaz and read their relevant notes in a conventional browser.
- At the end of his visit, you enter YOUR notes into YOUR EMR system as usual, NOT into his MedKaz.
Thus, MedKaz saves you time understanding and treating your patient without having to enter a single extra note (it is updated when your EMR system sends a copy of your notes to our MedKaz Server and your patient downloads them onto his MedKaz).
Bottom Line
MedKaz gives you instant, easy access to the information you need to treat your patients better, achieve better outcomes, and materially reduce their cost of care — without requiring additional data entry by you. It also increases your patient’s and his payer’s satisfaction, and saves him money! At the same time, the incentives you receive when you use your patients’ MedKaz will materially increase your profits!
Learn more about MedKaz and how it helps you here.
