Find Patient Records Use Case

The Find Patient Records allows participating organizations to communicate with each other to find and send patient records quickly and electronically.

About this Use Case

To make the best healthcare decisions and recommendations, doctors and other healthcare providers need complete and up-to-date information on a patient’s health. The problem is that most people visit many different doctors, hospitals, and healthcare providers during their lives. That means a patient’s healthcare history may be stored in bits and pieces in many different places, and therefore incomplete at the point of care.

    This use case helps organizations quickly, securely, and electronically find documents by asking other participating organizations if they have records for a given patient and, if they have any, to electronically share those records. This capability can improve a patient’s outcome and lower any risks since it enables more informed medical decisions.

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