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CareConnect
Eliminate the exchange of paper clinical documents
and start sharing electronically to achieve true
Connected Care
Connected Care
Connected Care is the sharing of
clinical information inside your
organization, with other care
providers and with consumers
themselves. Connected Care goes
beyond traditional Electronic
Health Record solutions to
ensure that clinical information
is integrated and available across
all points of care to help achieve
the highest quality of care.
Coordinating care with other
providers involved with a consumer
can be difficult. For example, if a
consumer needs to be referred from
an outpatient provider to an inpatient
facility, it can take a substantial
amount of time to exchange the
information, and even then, key
information can be inadvertently
left off of paper records. Once the
consumer is discharged, the length
of time it takes to generate and
distribute a discharge summary
typically means the consumer is back
in the outpatient program before any
summary is received. If that same
consumer needs to use public health
services, it can also be extremely
useful to send the consumer’s
information prior to their visit.
Netsmart CareConnect™ enables
the sharing of clinical information
between and among providers
involved in the care of a consumer
and with other entities such as
Regional Health Information
Organizations (RHIOs). CareConnect
works with Netsmart’s enterprise
products – Avatar, CMHC/MIS
and Insight – to provide a secure
way to exchange clinical and
administrative information.
CareConnect Service
The CareConnect service is designed
to leverage industry standards,
including Integrating the Healthcare
Enterprise (IHE) and Healthcare
Information Technology Standards
Panel (HITSP), while augmenting
them where necessary to take into
account the unique requirements
of behavioral and public health.
By connecting to the CareConnect
service, providers can register
a consumer with the network,
create referrals for consumers
that need to move between care
providers, request information
from other providers, and receive
that information in a standard
Continuity of Care Document
(CCD). Providers only need to
maintain one connection to the
CareConnect service, and when
information is transmitted it will be
converted to the desired format of
the recipient and delivered using
their preferred communication
method. This approach eliminates the
need to maintain multiple connections
and numerous data maps.
The benefits of the Netsmart
CareConnect service include:
- Maintain just one connection
to CareConnect instead of
many individual connections to
each provider or network
- Reduce the amount of time required to
transfer information between providers
- Improve the accuracy of
shared information
- Ensure information is available
when it is needed
- Start sharing information today
while having the confidence of
protection and compliance as
national standards evolve
The Connect Suite
Netsmart’s Connect suite of applications
work across Netsmart’s major
enterprise product lines to provide
the foundation for key components
of Connected Care, including
This cross-product approach
demonstrates the breadth and
integration of the Netsmart product
family and Netsmart’s commitment to
helping its customers maximize the
investment made in their software. |
