Amy Case Study Care Coordination Improved through Health Information Exchange.doc MHA/5

Amy Case Study Care Coordination Improved through Health Information Exchange.doc    MHA/507  Case Study: Care Coordination Improved through Health Information Exchange  University of Phoenix MHA/507  Case Study: Care Coordination Improved through Health Information Exchange  Inadequate coordination of care between healthcare providers presents a barrier to the comprehensive management of their patients. œCoastal Womens Healthcare offers gynecologic and obstetric care, mammography, bone density, and minimally invasive surgery to women in Scarborough, ME. The independent practice of eight physicians, two nurse practitioners, a midwife, and a support staff, saw 22,705 patients in 2011 ("Care coordination improved through health information exchange | HealthIT.gov," 2017). This case study analyzes the data New technologies for managing and exchanging health data of improved transfer of clinical information between specialties. The authors present a model of how information technology can be used to support standardized workflows in medicine by creating a meaningful use team to become the first independent womens health practice to connect to Maines health information exchange.                                                                             Data Collected and Analyzed  Coastal Womens Healthcare demonstrated that their EHR system could exchange vital clinical information by migrating key patient diagnoses to the patients current problem list; reconciling medication lists for 50 percent of their patients; summarizing care of transition plans, between