Coordinated diagnostics

Coordinated Diagnostics is the portion of the coordinated care healthcare model which focuses on diagnostic workflow, real-time data flow, information systems, expertise, and informed decision making. When practiced, Coordinated Diagnostics integrates the diagnostic data and activities of care providers, testing facilities, information systems providers, diagnostic domain experts, payers, and patients. Coordinated Diagnostics maximizes the effective use of diagnostic information and resources across the healthcare continuum in order to improve patient care while reducing overall costs.

When practicing Coordinated Diagnostics, actors within the healthcare continuum:

In order to fully perform these activities, actors across the healthcare continuum need:

The concept of Coordinated Diagnostics as a component of Coordinated Care is new to the Healthcare industry and its applicability to various industry challenges such as EHR interoperability and the correlation of diagnostic results across disciplines makes it a useful organizing principle.

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