Business Solutions: Transforming Healthcare Interoperability to Reduce Burnout and Enhance Patient Care

MGMA Podcasts

In this episode of the MGMA Business Solutions Podcast, host Daniel Williams sits down with Katie Holcomb, Product Marketing Manager at Surescripts, to discuss the vital role of interoperability in healthcare. Katie provides insights into Surescripts' mission to simplify healthcare data exchange and reduce clinician burnout. Tune in to learn about the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs), and how these innovations are transforming patient care.

Key Takeaways:
Top three benefits of connecting to a QHIN as a clinician or medical practice:

1) Greater access to clinical information

2) Reducing clinician and medical practice staff burnout

3) More time with your patients

Top four ways connecting to a QHIN is different than the clinical data you may have access to today:

1) Expanded participation and reach in accessing clinical data

2) The requirement that you have to GIVE information in order to GET information

3) Ensuring network integrity

4) Better patient matching

Resources: Learn more about the Trusted Exchange Framework & Common Agreement (TEFCA) and Qualified Health Information Networks (QHIN) at:

• https://rce.sequoiaproject.org/tefca/
• Surescripts.com/QHIN
• Contact your EMR or EHR vendor to make sure they get connected to a QHIN!
• Access Surescripts’ “QHIN Readiness Guide” at surescripts.com/QHINready
• Check out this Medical Economics article from Dr. Lynne Nowak, Surescripts’ Chief Data & Analytics Officer: https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/we-shouldn-t-let-nostalgia-cloud-the-real-impact-of-interoperability-in-health-care
• Join the TEFCA/RCE monthly informational calls (open to the public): https://sequoiaproject.org/events/