SCI Solutions Announces Integration with Surescripts Clinical Interoperability Network
Sending and Receiving Referrals and Secure Messaging Across National Network Enhances Care Coordination
SCI Solutions, the leading industry provider of outpatient orders/referral management and provider network scheduling software, today announced a relationship with Surescripts, (www.surescripts.com), the nation’s largest health information network, to optimize clinical messaging and care coordination for SCI clients. SCI Solutions has integrated to the Surescripts’ Clinical Interoperability network to expand the provider-to-provider communication options enabled via its patented Order/Referral/Results Facilitator platform. The addition of DIRECT support via Surescripts complements SCI’s existing support for web-based, EMR-integrated, fax-delivered, and/or API-integrated communications – critical flexibility in today’s diverse healthcare environment.
“This integration with Surescripts enables Order Facilitator subscribers to send or receive referrals and other secure messages using the DIRECT standard to or from any of the 300,000 acute-care and ambulatory care providers on the Surescripts network,” said Joel French, CEO of SCI Solutions. “This new capability further enhances SCI’s unique platform supporting seamless patient care transitions.”
“Clinical messaging enables the safe and timely exchange of electronic health information across rapidly evolving healthcare communities,” said Jeff Miller, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Clinical Interoperability for Surescripts. “We are thrilled to expand our network reach to include SCI Solutions.”
SCI’s Order Facilitator® is the industry’s leading EMR-enabled physician referral and outpatient order management platform measured by transaction volumes. Order Facilitator enables clients to rapidly increase outpatient volumes, coordinate patient transitions, improve revenue compliance and reduce network leakage. SCI’s flagship Schedule Maximizer® solution is a comprehensive patient and resource scheduling solution flexible enough to be deployed in a centralized, de-centralized or hybrid patient access model. Using advanced rules and workflow engines enables users to proactively schedule patient cases and resources across a community provider network to reduce gaps in patient care and network leakage and form the connective tissue for tomorrow’s leading Accountable Care Organizations (ACO’s). Please see also http://www.surescripts.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2013/july/0723_ci_expansion.
About Surescripts
The Surescripts network supports the most comprehensive ecosystem of healthcare organizations nationwide. Pharmacies, payers, pharmacy benefit managers, physicians, hospitals, health information exchanges and health technology firms rely on Surescripts to more easily and securely share health information. Guided by the principles of neutrality, transparency, physician and patient choice, open standards, collaboration and privacy, Surescripts operates the nation's largest health information network. By providing information for routine, recurring and emergency care, Surescripts is committed to saving lives, improving efficiency and reducing the cost of health care for all. For more information, go to www.surescripts.com and follow us at twitter.com/surescripts.
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About SCI Solutions
SCI Solutions builds, implements, and operates healthcare business process software for a network of more than 500 hospitals, diagnostic imaging centers, physician groups and post-acute organizations. Operating its national referral network, SCI’s cloud-based platform is transforming healthcare with rules-based, workflow-enabled community solutions that orchestrate patient care across service areas regardless of originating or destination systems. Processing more than 1.5 billion transactions annually, SCI’s network and its Order Facilitator® and Schedule Maximizer® offerings remain the most ubiquitous referral management and network scheduling platforms in the health industry. Both offerings are ranked among the Best in KLAS™ by KLAS Research. For additional information, please visit www.scisolutions.com.
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