Interoperability

Bring together patient data across systems for better care coordination and improved health outcomes.

Organizations use Care Everywhere to exchange over 20 million patient records daily, and around half of those exchanges are with organizations that use a different interoperable EHR.

See the list of organizations live with Care Everywhere here.

 

Community Connect offers independent providers and healthcare organizations a unified and integrated patient record by extending the EHR from an organization that uses Epic.

View a list of Connect Accredited hub organizations. 

Support Treatment
Exchange information across EHRs to ensure continuity of care with an up-to-date patient story available no matter where a patient receives care.
Support Treatment
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Patient-Directed Exchange
FHIR-based APIs enable patients to send information in their electronic health record to third-party apps of their choice.
Patient-Directed Exchange
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Communicate with Government Partners
Connecting directly to the Social Security Administration, Department of Defense, and the Veterans Health Administration results in faster processing of medical data requests—from months to hours—and reduces the amount of uncompensated care provided by your organization.
Communicate with Government Partners
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Connect with Health Plans
A wide spectrum of data from health plans, like paid claims, helps you close care gaps, eliminate duplicate testing, and streamline records requests.
Connect with Health Plans
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Electronic Referrals
Digitizing referrals between organizations can help patients receive care sooner while saving staff time by avoiding faxing and scanning.
Electronic Referrals
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Share Everywhere
Share Everywhere creates a patient-driven workflow by which patients can provide a one-time, web-based view of their health record to anyone with internet access.
Share Everywhere
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Avoid Duplicate Testing and Close Care Gaps
Check for duplicate orders to help clinicians avoid ordering labs the patient has already had. Show clinicians care gaps, like when a patient isn’t adhering to a prescribed medication, and give them guidance on next steps to close them to improve quality measure performance.
Avoid Duplicate Testing and Close Care Gaps
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Standards-Based Connections
Standards-based integration helps support the evolving needs of the Epic community. There are over 1,000 API and interface specifications freely and publicly available for integrating software with Epic on open.epic.com.
Standards-Based Connections
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When we first got the EMR, we were still sending reams of paper back and forth because there was no way to share electronically. Interoperability allowed us to first share pieces of information … and now it has expanded to the point where we can see so much more—an image from an MRI, other physicians’ notes—which are essential when you’re considering next steps for that patient’s care. 

 

—Milisa Rizer, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
100%
of Epic customers are interoperable
648 million
records exchanged per month
23 million
patient record documents exchanged daily between health systems

(Half with non-Epic organizations)

54.3 billion
web service transactions in the last year used Epic’s publicly available APIs
291 billion
interface transactions over the last year
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Interoperability Connects Urgent Care and Emergency Care in the Netherlands
OLVG in Amsterdam uses Care Everywhere to receive emergency department referrals from a nearby urgent care center, saving 270 hours of registration time annually, reducing transcription errors, and improving transitions of care.
Read the full article on EpicShare →
Read the full article on EpicShare
A School and a Hospital Team Up to Help Keep Kids in Class
Nemours Children’s Health used a local health information network (HIN) and a statewide health information exchange (HIE) to facilitate connecting parents, care teams, and school districts to help remove systemic barriers to consistent attendance.
Read the full article on EpicShare →
Read the full article on EpicShare
Sustainable Interoperability: Paving the Way for Research and Innovation with Standardized Health Data Exchange
J.D. Whitlock, Chief Information Officer at Dayton Children's, discusses sustainable interoperability and how Dayton will help pave the way for research and innovation with standardized health data exchange.
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UserWeb Resources

Take a deeper dive into implementation and support documentation, education and training resources, and more on the UserWeb.
How Epic
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Our Interoperability
Guide & Approach  →
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