PatientPing, the nation’s leading care collaboration platform, on Monday announced the launch of an educational website, www.adtnotifications.com, The site is dedicated to providing information on the Conditions of Participation for CMS’s Interoperability and Patient Access rule.
The proposed final rule creates new Conditions of Participation that require hospitals, psychiatric hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals to share e-notifications with eligible requesting practitioners, care team members and post-acute providers upon a patient’s admission, discharge and transfer. The rule will allow for improved information sharing among providers to help enhance care coordination and patient outcomes.
The new PatientPing website serves as an information hub for post-acute providers, hospitals and other care team members. Through a series of videos and articles, visitors can review distilled information and insights into what the e-notifications rule entails and how organizations can best prepare and comply with the new requirements.
“CMS’s new rule has the potential to reshape the way that information is shared among providers across the entire care continuum,” said Vanessa Kuhn, director of policy at PatientPing. “Transformative regulations such as this are not always easy to navigate. We’re excited to help support our existing community members and hospitals across the country best prepare for this rule through the information provided on our new website and help them succeed in sharing e-notifications on patients’ care events.”
Over 6,000 hospitals, post-acute-care providers, ACOs, health plans and community physicians use PatientPing to collaborate on patient care events.
“For over six years, PatientPing has facilitated nationwide electronic admission and discharge notifications among hospitals, post acute facilities, and community providers and practitioners, and we believe the CMS Conditions of Participation for electronic notifications will meaningfully accelerate improvements in care coordination,” said CEO Jay Desai, formerly of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. “For instance, I want my mother’s PCP to be notified of her hospital discharge to make sure her recovery is safe and this rule will ensure that happens. We are impressed by the administration’s resolve to improve patient care and stand ready to continue supporting hospitals’ and providers’ journey into a new era of patient-centered health care.”
