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Skilled Nursing Facilities Lack Enhanced Patient Data Sharing

Skilled Nursing Facilities Lack Enhanced Patient Data Sharing

January 19, 2021Christopher Jason2 CommentsEHR IntelligenceCare Management & Coordination,Care Transitions & Planning

Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) reported significant deficiencies in the completeness, timeliness, and usability of patient data sharing from hospitals to SNFs, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. This negatively impacts transitions of care.

SNFs serve patients that often have high-risk or complex chronic conditions and care needs, resulting in frequent transitions between home, acute, post-acute, and long-term care settings. Thus, these transitions require care coordination between providers— a collaboration that becomes easier with efficient EHR use, health data exchange, and interoperability.

However, the current state of patient data sharing is relatively unknown even though there’s been over a decade of investment in health IT infrastructure and new incentives to promote coordination between hospitals and SNFs.

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Kristine Gates
January 29, 2021 11:54 am

I don’t think there is a lack of patient data when a skilled nursing facility can obtain a 4-year all encounters health history on a Medicare patient in about 5 minutes. Instead skilled nursing facilities are not taking advantage of technology to solve the health history problem.

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Garrett Schmitt
January 29, 2021 10:03 pm

Good point, Kristine!

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