PROBLEM
Hancock Regional Health’s IT leadership team sought an efficient solution to implement Transitions of Care documents, also called Continuity of Care documents (CCD) mandated by the federal government. This care summary document must be sent to the “next in line” provider, regardless of what technology solution they use to support patient care.
SOLUTION
From an IT perspective, IHIE has strong project management processes to help support this service. And, from a clinical perspective, IHIE is able to combine the information sent by HRH into a useable and consistent format across the entire IHIE network.
As an added value to HRH, IHIE runs a report of the CCD documents that were actually delivered to the providers. HRH is able to match that up against their report of ToC documents that they sent. This reconciliation process is important for HRH to ensure they are delivering the appropriate percentage to meet the federal requirements, but is also a best practice for patient care.