In advance of the 2021 Cerner Health Conference, the company has rounded up the trending topics in healthcare that will shape the conversation as the year comes to a close. Obviously, the COVID-19 pandemic is both the biggest influence and variable in how healthcare organizations will need to adapt.
The five topics that providers should be focused on are as follows:
Driving operational efficiencies and insights
Here Cerner focuses on burnout, data analytics, and cybersecurity. Having the right data at your fingertips and avoiding devastating security breaches leads to better outcomes for both clinicians and patients.
Extract’s answer to this issue is to automate document workflows with our HealthyData Platform and to do it behind your firewall. Data that was once trapped in scans becomes readily available for clinicians in the EHR and your organization doesn’t have to worry about the security procedures of another vendor.
Creating strong data and network strategies
There is a strong focus on using data that can not only be shared amongst different organizations across the spectrum of healthcare (payers, clinicians, researchers), but also more complete patient data, that includes things like social determinants of health and value-based care.
Extract’s focus has always been on data accessibility, which means we translate the information on your documents into the terminology and measurements you use so it’s trackable, trendable, and shareable. We work with several organizations on research initiatives, pulling data used for cancer gene studies and cancer research interoperability.
Supporting open platforms for connectivity and innovation
The theme of interoperability and data access are certainly becoming a theme across Cerner’s thoughts. It’s going to take both technology and regulation to achieve these goals. They point to things like the info blocking rule and their new integration with Apple to allow patients to share data physicians otherwise wouldn’t have access to.
At Extract, we make sure that no matter whether you’re using Epic or Cerner, OnBase or McKesson, or even proprietary systems, that we’re able to integrate with you and your vendors to allow for seamless data transfer.
Optimizing access and the patient experience
This trend is all about communication. The pandemic forced a lot of communication to become virtual and it’s become clear that this method is something that patients like. Bi-directional and personalized communication are granting patients the access they’re looking for and important when competing with the nontraditional healthcare organizations like Walgreens or Walmart.
Extract won’t help you actually get in touch with your patients, but it will ensure that information isn’t delayed in the HIM department or anywhere else so that when you do communicate, you’re using a complete set of up to date data.
Enhancing clinician excellence and efficiency
No healthcare organization is going to function well if their clinicians aren’t happy and able to do their jobs. They need streamlined workflows, easily accessible data in the EHR, and training on how to succeed in an environment that demands more personalized, on-demand care.
By using software like Extract’s HealthyData, clinicians get the benefit of streamlined workflows, all occurring behind the scenes. Time wasted looking for clinical data in faxes, scans, and PDFs is eliminated. Clinical and HIM staff no longer need to use barcode labels and you won’t need armies of people entering data when they’d be better suited for higher value tasks.
To hear more about what Cerner and its partners have to say about these topics, you can register for CHC21 here. To learn more about how Extract can automate and simplify your workflows, request a demo or reach out to us and we’d be happy to help.
About the Author: Chris Mack
Chris is a Marketing Manager at Extract with experience in product development, data analysis, and both traditional and digital marketing. Chris received his bachelor’s degree in English from Bucknell University and has an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. A passionate marketer, Chris strives to make complex ideas more accessible to those around him in a compelling way.