Automated Transcription/EHR-Entry of Referral Faxes, and Dashboard-based Referral Status Updates

Gautam Shah / Fel Bautista
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Proctor

The Health Stack project at UCSF CDHI (Center for Digital Health Innovation) is deploying a referral solution for Pediatric Access Center (PAC) in April 2018 to improve the efficiency of processing incoming referrals from community clinics, and to provide greater transparency of referral status to referring providers and patients. This includes a Fax-to-Referral web app that a referring coordinator can use to automatically transcribes the contents of a referral fax, map content to their corresponding EHR attributes, and create the referral in the EHR. It also provides a Referral Dashboard that referring providers can securely access to view up-to-date status of their referrals as recorded in the specialist's EHR. This session will provide a demo of the application and the underlying technology architecture and integration points such as using FHIR API's.