Why should you adopt Direct messaging?
Direct messaging lets you exchange critical patient data across the healthcare system. We know that improved access to information can help healthcare providers work together to
- Improve care coordination.
- Increase the speed of healthcare delivery.
- Decrease overall healthcare costs through, for example, eliminating duplicate tests, reducing medical errors, and avoid hospital readmissions.
Specifically, Direct messaging
- Allows you to securely exchange patient information with all participating healthcare providers and facilities, including those outside your current network.
- Promotes communication between you and other healthcare providers for improved coordination of care.
- Replaces less secure communication methods, such as fax machines and regular mail—methods that lack the level of security necessary to transport patients’ protected health information (PHI) and are expensive and time-consuming to use.
- Helps you attest to Stage 1 Meaningful Use of your EHR by satisfying the core requirement for electronic exchange of clinical information.
- Leverages a national standard developed by a consortium of physician leaders, health IT experts, and private health IT companies. Direct messaging is a simple, secure methodology being adopted nationwide to send authenticated, encrypted health information directly to known trusted recipients over the Internet.
- Enables you to participate in several health IT initiatives in Rhode Island using Direct to improve the interconnectivity of patient health data.
To learn more about Direct and RI REC’s Direct Adoption Program, please watch our Direct video. You may also contact us at 888-924-4156 or at directprogram@riqi.org.