HIE Staying Power: Eligibility Verification and Checking
February 15th, 2011
Mount Rushmore. Rock music. Baseball and apple pie.
No, it’s not a recipe for a summer road trip, it’s a list of things that have staying power. Though the facade of Mount Rushmore may change over the years because of environmental conditions, it has been around for many years and will be for years to come. Rock music may get harder and less original, but it’s still a basic of the music scene. As for baseball and apple pie, while other sports may occasional eclipse it in popularity from time to time, stories of fathers and sons - and daughters! - bonding over nine innings of strategy and scorekeeping are numerous and legendary.
As discussed in one of our previous posts, an integral part of a successful HIE is working to ensure that it is sustainable long-term. Part of this success involves providing services that reduce existing costs along with services that offer administrative transaction cost savings, thereby balancing the cost of other services such as clinical data exchange. A service we consider to be high in value is that of eligibility verification or checking. Read the rest of this entry »