What technology from 1843 is still being used daily in healthcare?

Fax communication is still commonplace in healthcare because it allows providers to transfer patient-specific communication to one another at the point of care. However, the amount of coordination that the average provider has to do with various providers, specialists, insurance companies, hospitals, and more, produces a mountain of paper that’s weighing our health system down in more ways than one.

Faxes cost healthcare billions of dollars each year and can lead to medical errors due to missing, incomplete or unreadable information. It’s time to phase out that fax machine and replace it with something better – such as direct secure messaging.

Replace the Fax with iShare Medical Messaging

Learn how iShare Medical Messaging can help you to improve care coordination and reduce cost by replacing the fax machine with direct secure messaging for healthcare.

More than 400 applicants from across the global competed for a chance at the $500k LaunchKC Grant. Twenty finalists were chosen by an expert panel of 35 business and investment judges to pitch during the TechWeek KC. Nine grant winners were selected to share in the non-dilutive $500k prize.

iShare Medical is proud to be selected as a winner of the LaunchKC Grant!

iShare Medical is a complete medical record, organized around the person, that is easily and securely shared across trusted providers, organizations, software program, devices , and payers and available at your fingertips 24/7/365.

A complete medical record does not exist. The Institute of Medicine book To Err is Human: Building a Safer Medical System states that “When people see healthcare providers in different care settings, none who have access to complete information, it becomes easier for things to go wrong”. Incomplete information can lead to preventable wrong decisions. In fact, in a study done by Johns Hopkins University, they found that preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. behind heart disease and cancer. This is in large part because medical records are stored based on the provider. Each provider has a fragment of information that is not shared with other providers.

When patients and providers have complete information it is amazing what things can be achieved such as saving lives, improving care and outcomes, and reducing the code of healthcare. iShare Medical is a complete medical record, organized around the person that is easily and securely shared across trusted providers, patients, organizations, software programs, devices and payers and available 24/7/365.

Our target markets are patients who need access to their own information, providers who need to share medical records and insurance information with other providers and payers who need access to medical records to provide prior approval for services or to pay a claim.

DirectTrust recently announced the GTAB accreditation of Kansas City-based iShare Medical as a Fully Accredited Governmental Trust Anchor.

iShare Medical is now uniquely qualified to provide trusted exchange of medical records with 23 Federal government agencies, including Medicare, Medicaid, Indian Health Services, and the Veterans Administration.

“This achievement for iShare Medical is the result of many months of software development and compliance with rigorous privacy, security and trust compliance, including the implementation of a hardware security module that provides both hardware and software encryption protection,” said Linda Van Horn, President / CEO of iShare Medical. “It opens up a big market for iShare Medical, as Federal government agencies account for more than 50% of the health care expenditures in the U.S.”

iShare Medical is one of only three companies who have achieved this GTAB accreditation. (See https://services.directtrust.org/gtab/)

The DirectTrust Governmental Trust Anchor Bundle (“GTAB”) facilitates interoperability (the ability to exchange medical records and use the information that has been exchanged) between governmental agencies and private sector health care providers. DirectTrust created a special Governmental Trust Anchor Bundle to meet the more rigorous regulatory requirements of federal agencies, after more than a year of meetings between DirectTrust and the Veteran’s Administration, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Federal Health Architecture (a government agency that defines technical standards for exchanging medical data see https://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/federal-partners). All participants in the bundle must successfully achieve GTAB accreditation status, meet all requirements of the Accredited Trust Anchor Bundle Standard Operating Procedures, and meet the set of profile requirements described by the GTAB’s standard operating procedure, including adherence with the Federal Health Architecture and cross-certification by the Federal Bridge Certificate Authority.

iShare Medical’s accreditation as a DirectTrust Governmental Trust Anchor helps to make significant progress toward moving the vision of interoperable health information technology into reality, so that information can be exchanged securely, accurately and efficiently.

DirectTrust is a national, non-profit association whose flagship Accredited Trust Anchor Bundle (ATAB) currently serves more than 71,000 healthcare organizations with more than 1.3 million Direct addresses. To learn more, go to www.directtrust.org.

iShare Medical is innovating the future of health care by creating state-of-the-art solutions to improve the way patients, providers and health care industry organizations manage data and communicate. iShare Medical is a Fully Accredited DirectTrust Anchor Healthcare Information Services Provider (HISP), and now iShare Medical is also a Fully Accredited DirectTrust Governmental Trust Anchor. iShare provides secure, encrypted HIPAA-compliant exchange of medical records throughout the United States. It is a woman-owned small business based in Kansas City, Mo., and was the winner of the InnovateHER 2016 Kansas City Business Challenge, and one of the top 20 Launch KC finalists during TechWeek 2016.

For more information on iShare Medical and how to securely manage all of your medical records, go to www.iShareMedical.com or call 816-249-2555.

Why You Will Love (And Must Have) Our “Send on Behalf of…” Feature!

Communication of patient medical and treatment information is so essential for a health care practice, yet can be so time consuming and complicated. iShare Medical Messaging is a tool that simplifies and expedites that process – the “Send on Behalf of…” feature will make you and your practice more efficient and effective. Here’s how:
“Send on Behalf of…”is a feature in iShare Medical Messaging that helps you as a provider stay focused on patient care because it enables your staff to communicate for you. “Send on Behalf of…” allows a medical assistant or medical records staff member to send a Direct Message on behalf of the physician. This unique option saves providers the time and trouble of having to do it, eliminates inappropriate sharing of usernames and passwords and gives you more time to focus on patients and treatment. All of it still happens within the safety, security and privacy of iShare Medical secure encrypted messaging system.

Give yourself the best tool to improve your practice’s communication without burdening providers with more to do. Get iShare Medical Messaging and its “Send on Behalf of…” feature now. Just click here.

iShare Medical℠ was selected from 275 women-led tech companies to pitch at the UberPitch “Fueling The Growth” competition in Kansas City on October 26th. Winners will advance to the semi-final round to pitch in Stamford, CT on November 16th for a chance to win $120,000 in prize money and invaluable investor mentorship.

Sponsors:

• The Refinery
• Uber
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

More information:

• http://therefineryct.com/fuelingthegrowth/uberpitch/
• http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/2016/09/uber-the-refinery-and-the-kauffman-foundation-launch-fueling-the-growth-competition

iShare Medical has the software you need to automate the exchange of medical records between providers.

iShare Medical’s applications work. They are easy to use. Cutting edge. Safe. Secure. Efficient. Effective.

iShare Medical is 100% Interoperable within the DirectTrust Accredited Trust Bundle. iShare Medical is EHNAC Accredited. Additionally, iShare Medical is Cross-Certified by the Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA) Medium which is required under the Federal Health Architecture for Government payers such as Veterans Administration, Indian Health Services, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Plus, iShare Medical is a SBA Woman-Owned, Small Business!

iShare Medical has some of the smartest, most astute people in the industry working to innovate the future of healthcare, and we are leaders in the field of healthcare information exchange. Our company leadership and IT professionals have spent years identifying problems, envisioning a better way of working, and creating the solutions.

iShare Medical’s HISP uses RESTful API, providing ease of implementation and secure transport of data, scalability of component interactions, reducing interaction latency, enforcing security, to name a few. That’s cool.

iShare Medical HISP works with or without an EHR. That’s one of our distinctive differences. But if you are looking to make sure your investment in EHRs is maximized, iShare Medical’s RESTful API HISP makes EHRs as effective as possible, facilitates streamlined work flows, increases productivity by automating the process of sending and receiving medical records between two identity-validated parties using our exceptional technology.

So stop searching, and start using iShare Medical RESTful API HISP. iShare Medical has what you need to exchange medical records seamlessly, securely, smoothly, successfully, and safely.

iShare Medical facilitates secure electronic health information exchange. To find out more, contact iShare Medical at (816) 249-2555 ext 1.

Linda Van Horn, MBA presented three lectures at National Spine and Pain Conference, Washington, DC:

1. How Interoperability Changes Everything and How Sharing Data is Necessary for Value Based Care
2. How Physicans Will Be Paid in 2017: MIPS / MACRA
3. Marketing Techniques to Differentiate and Build Your Practice

Linda Van Horn, MBA and Bob Woodward, Washington Post journalist who in 1972 teamed up with Carl Bernstein to break the Watergate Scandal.

Interoperability is one of the hottest topics in the health care industry right now. But what does it have to do with you, the provider?

In Part 1 of our series on interoperability, we explained how interoperability can help practices take the next step in electronic health records exchange, and ultimately help improve care and outcomes, and reduce costs.

The official definition from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC):

Boiled down, it’s the capability for different electronic health records (EHR’s) or computer systems to communicate.

Just like with geographical boundaries, language barriers have existed in the health care world. iShare Medical has created solutions, so that computer systems between organizations and practices can communicate electronically.

A new day is dawning and providers see the vision of the possibilities of improving care by sharing medical records. Imagine being able to easily respond to patient records requests, without worry about HIPPA violations or long waits or erroneous fax sends or laborious re-entry of data points.

Imagine a smooth system of sharing and exchanging electronic health information between different doctors, labs, specialists, departments or health care systems. Imagine being able to immediately review a patient’s history, or lab report, or consult with another provider all within the protection of a highly secure, protected email-like tool.

Interoperability facilitates that. Now at iShare Medical.

Get interoperability now, sign up for iShare Medical Messaging today!

Click here to sign up online
Or, call us at:
(816) 249-2555 ext 1

Do you need seamless integration with your EHR?

Ask your EHR vendor to call us today at (816) 249-2555 ext 1 to find out how they can staring using iShare Medical’s RESTful API for HISP Services for interoperability.

iShare Medical – LaunchKC Top 20 Finalist
iShare Medical was a Top 20 Finalist in the LaunchKC competition during Kansas City’s TechWeek 2016.
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Take the next step in information exchange

The biggest change happening in healthcare right now is interoperability. Here’s what it means, and why it’s important to you as a provider.

Medical practices have invested significant resources in converting paper records into electronic health records in recent years. Many have experienced the benefits to tracking costs and billing for services. But there is more that electronic health records can do for patients and practices.

All that electronically-stored information is valuable to all aspects of care. The next step for maximizing that investment and continuing to improve processes is secure, efficient healthcare information exchange. But lack of interoperability poses a problem.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) defines interoperability this way:

Boiled down, it’s the capability for different computer systems to communicate. And right now, as you well know, many doctors and healthcare providers’ systems can’t. They are NOT interoperable.

So, many providers are still faxing information and wasting staff time on sending, receiving, and chasing paper! This inefficiency is a key driver for the move to interoperability.

We’re on the cusp of the change in how all this works. It’s happening fast. Solutions are already available from iShare Medical for secure electronic messaging, seamless integration into your EHR, and the interoperability between health care practices’ information systems.

Find out what your peers already know, interoperability is easy when you have the right tools! iShare Medical’s nationwide network spans 58,000 healthcare organizations, 1.2 million Direct addresses, and supports more than 50 HIE’s.

Get interoperability now, sign up for iShare Medical Messaging today!

Click here to sign up online
Or, call us at:
(816) 249-2555 ext 1

Do you need seamless integration with your EHR?

Ask your EHR vendor to call us today at (816) 249-2555 ext 1 to find out how they can staring using iShare Medical’s RESTful API for HISP Services for interoperability.