Press Release

Kansas City, Mo., Sept 9, 2020 – iShare Medical, a DirectTrust Accredited Trust Anchor specializing in the trusted sharing of electronic health information, has announced new service making it possible for hospitals, healthcare organizations, and laboratories to streamline reporting of COVID-19 cases through Electronic Case Reporting (eCR).

For many healthcare systems, COVID-19 case reporting involves handwriting case information on a paper form and faxing it to multiple federal, state, and local public health agencies. When these case reports are received by the public health agencies, they are entered into their systems creating even more work. This approach is labor intensive and inefficient.

Now, with the faced with the challenges due to the sheer volume of COVID-19 cases, hospitals and public health agencies are getting overwhelmed. This has led to a break-down in information flow.

iShare Medical has leveraged their existing technology, iShare Medical Messaging to automate and expedite COVID-19 case reporting. Instead of handwriting data that is already in electronic form in the EHR or laboratory system, hospitals, health systems, and laboratories can use iShare Medical Messaging to integrate with their EHR or laboratory system to automate sending the electronic case report (eCR) directly to the proper reporting location including the CDC.

“Reporting COVID cases in large numbers has put a significant strain on our healthcare system,” says Linda Van Horn, Founder of iShare Medical. “In many cases, the reporting process remains far too manual, with many hospitals faxing case reports which then has to be entered into the public health agencies system. Our technology replaces the fax machine and automates electronic case reporting.”

As a Health Information Services Provider (HISP), iShare Medical uses a standard protocol that is compatible with nearly every major electronic health record (EHR). This means that iShare Medical’s technology can securely send r case reports to the CDC, State, and other public health agencies via AIMS – a cloud-based platform that accelerates public health reporting, created jointly by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL and the CDC). The goal of iShare Medical integration with the AIMS platform to reduce reporting times for infectious diseases such as COVID-19 from weeks to minutes.

Getting the product and processes in place to do real-time electronic COVID-19 reporting is quick and straight-forward with iShare Medical. Through their flagship product, iShare Medical Messaging, can normally set-up an account within three days, and at that point, the hospital or healthcare organization can begin digitally reporting COVID-19 case information.

To learn more about how iShare Medical is working with hospitals and organizations to improve the speed and efficiency of their COVID-19 reporting, visit isharemedical.com/covid-reporting or call 816.249.2555 ext. 1.

About iShare Medical

iShare Medical is the trusted online platform for securing, sending, and sharing medical health information among patients, providers, and payers. Our proprietary software promotes interoperability and spans a nationwide network has more than 2.4 million healthcare providers. iShare Medical is EHNAC Accredited for HIPAA Privacy and Security, is a DirectTrust Accredited Trust Anchor, and is an Accredited EHNAC TNAP-QHIN.