Health Info Exchange Can Improve Patient Care

Added Steve Conti, director of disease management at Seton, “the challenge we often face in the ER is that patients with complex chronic diseases don't always present with the same diagnosis. A diabetic may come in one day with a glucose issue, but then another day with foot pain, so we may not recognize the same person coming in.” High Alert prompts providers that the patient has an ongoing medical condition so that “we can recognize and deal with that rather than work through this as a whole new case,” he said.

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