What you should know:
– Datavanta data collaboration platform, and athenahealth, inc.A provider of network-enabled software and services announced an anticipated partnership aimed at transforming the historically manual and fragmented process of medical record requests and releases.
– By combining athenahealth’s market-leading EHR platform with Datavant’s expertise in health data sharing, the companies plan to build a modern, comprehensive infrastructure for data sharing.
Full-Service ROI Integration
The planned offering will integrate Datavant’s clinical data access technology and managed release of information (ROI) services directly into athenahealth’s cloud-based athenaOne solution. This collaboration is designed to be purpose-agnostic and encompasses a wide range of scenarios including requests from patients, public health agencies, life insurance companies, researchers, and other healthcare practices.
“By bringing together athenahealth’s market-leading EHR platform with Datavant’s expertise in health data sharing, we are building a modern data sharing infrastructure that allows practices to focus on care, not paperwork, while ensuring health data gets from where it is to where it needs to be – securely, compliant and frictionless,” said Shannon West, chief strategy officer at Datavant.
The integrated service will offer an end-to-end solution covering request receipt, authorization validation, compliance review, secure delivery and proper billing.
Elimination of administrative burden and increased efficiency
The primary goal of the partnership is to eliminate administrative burden and increase operational efficiency of practices. Participation will be voluntary and will provide athenahealth customers with the option to automate and digitize medical records requests within their existing workflow.
The benefits of this simplified approach include:
- Compliance Guarantee: Utilizing AI-enabled quality assurance checks to reduce the risk of unauthorized disclosure and ensure compliance with all requests. Datavant already processes more than 3.6 million requests annually with an industry-leading fulfillment accuracy rate for existing customers.
- Fastest delivery: Accelerate the delivery of medical records, resulting in a faster, more seamless experience for patients and authorized requesters.
- Digital tools: Leverage enhanced capabilities, such as digital intake tools, with patient and provider satisfaction scores above 95%.
“Working with Datavant, we plan to deliver a technology-driven solution that automates and simplifies this complexity, reducing administrative workload, increasing compliance and improving record-seeker satisfaction,” said Michael Palantoni, director of strategy and corporate development at athenahealth.
