Brightree Announces eReferral Integration with athenahealth
June 14 2018 - 9:05AM
Business Wire
New cloud-based solution simplifies the
referral process, improving efficiencies and reducing manual
processes for home medical equipment providers
Brightree, the leading provider of cloud-based software helping
post-acute care companies improve business performance and patient
outcomes, announced the release of a new solution that allows home
medical equipment (HME) providers to digitally receive orders from
more than 62,000 providers using athenaClinicals within the
athenahealth network, the same way doctors have long referred
patients to other specialists.
Before eReferral Management, physician and HME staff had to
manually send, receive and process referrals and related documents
via faxing and phone calls. Now, any office that uses athenahealth,
a leading provider of network-enabled services for hospital and
ambulatory clients nationwide, can refer patients to an HME
provider the same way that they refer patients to other care
settings, forwarding equipment orders directly from their
electronic health records (EHR) system to the HME provider’s
referral workflow within the Brightree system. This allows clinical
staff to remain in their native workflow, greatly reducing the time
necessary to complete a referral, improving information accuracy
and expediting patient care.
“With this new innovative solution, HME providers are integrated
into the digital referral process that has been in place for other
health providers for years,” said Nick Knowlton, Brightree vice
president of business development. “By digitizing the process, we
are greatly improving efficiencies for both physicians and HME
providers while helping to improve the overall patient experience.
We’re excited to bring this level of interoperability to the HME
market and look forward to the positive impact it will have on the
delivery of healthcare.”
“We’re excited to partner with Brightree to help free up
athenahealth clinicians from paper- and phone-based HME ordering
processes that add cost to and detract from patient care,” said
Evan Grossman, athenahealth vice president of integration
services. “Via our single-instance, multi-tenant, cloud-based
platform, all practices connected to the athenahealth network
through athenaClinicals will now have seamless access to this more
streamlined e-referral process without having to go through a
painful upgrade process.”
“We’re already seeing significant benefits from Brightree’s
integration,” said Brad Heath, vice president of operations at
Family Medical Supply in Dunn, NC. “Since physicians don’t have to
leave their native EHR platform, we’re automatically bringing in
orders and documentation to support our operations, and we are able
to more quickly attend to our patients and eliminate costly
rework.”
Brightree is actively working to connect more physicians with
eReferral Management, maximizing cost and time savings for them and
HMEs.
About Brightree
Brightree, a wholly owned subsidiary of ResMed
(NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD), is the leading provider of cloud-based
software to improve clinical and business performance of post-acute
care companies. Ranked one of the top 100 health care IT companies
in the U.S., Brightree serves more than 2,500 organizations in the
HME, home health, hospice, orthotic and prosthetic, HME pharmacy,
home infusion, and rehabilitation home care segments. For more
information, visit www.brightree.com or call 1.888.598.7797.
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