Effective and efficient care coordination across a community is quickly becoming a cornerstone in a healthcare organization’s (HCO’s) strategic efforts to manage the health of the population it serves. Moving beyond discharge summary distribution to reduce readmits, which is still far from perfect, HCOs are now setting their sights on care coordination for the ability to optimize care management, disease management, and utilization management (CM, DM & UM). The solution landscape for care coordination is a highly diverse one that has, to our knowledge, seen very little in the way of formal analysis.

We cover new advances in the Electronic Health Records (EHR) industry by looking at what matters: how are vendors making the lives of clinicians less complicated? What new products are being introduced to simplify workflows and create truly longitudinal patient records (not just one-off digital records)? And most importantly, how is the hub of the physician’s IT suite going to truly help with broader goals of care coordination?