(JULY 9, 2018) – With healthcare policies prioritizing better patient wellness and value-based care, healthcare organizations are working to drive patient care access. But with care access leaving something to be desired in rural areas, medical professionals must now turn to unique strategies, including tapping health IT and clinical decision support tools.
At CoxHealth, a Missouri-based health system that serves primarily rural areas, clinical decision support has helped providers overcome care access barriers related to extreme geographic distances and specialty provider services.
The support tool allows CoxHealth providers to treat symptoms that otherwise would require a specialty provider who may practice tens or hundreds of miles away, according to Louis Krenn, a CoxHealth primary care physician and the system’s Chief Medical Information Officer.
Using clinical decision support vendor VisualDx, Krenn is instead able to offer more diagnostic services to his primary care patients, he told PatientEngagementHIT.com in an interview. Read the full interview here.
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