Care Evolution

You also likely have pressure to automate and create efficiencies to improve EHR data integration and you may think this involves a complete technology overhaul which sounds disruptive, expensive and lengthy.

It’s a bit like thinking you have to change all the plumbing in your home to get filtered water—which doesn’t make sense. It’s disruptive, expensive, and lengthy—plus there are faster and less disruptive alternatives like filtered water pitchers or filtering an individual tap.

So what if we told you there are departmental solutions that can happen very quickly without the rip and replace risk of business disruption?

Filtering water on a single tap is similar to a departmental solution that can happen very quickly and is low risk to implement.

There is also the possibility where you might say, ‘hey that water tastes great, lets filter the water where it enters the home’. That solves the filtration problem for the entire house without ripping out all of the plumbing and life at home can continue during the implementation.

Similarly, all of your existing data ‘faucets’ (workflows, applications, databases) can get the same cleansing and filtration without the risks and high failure rates associated with large scale changes.

That is exactly how APIs can clean EHR data as it enters and moves through your organization. They can be placed in an existing process without replacing any technology or IT infrastructure which can simply the process with little business risk. Oh and a software developer can start testing it in a couple of hours. Yes, that’s right, a couple of hours.

Using an API that doesn’t retain data can also help mitigate risk. The data is never stored outside your organization, and can always be encrypted. Your Information Security team will love it.