In sports, you have to know who is on your team so that you can deliver a winning performance. It’s pretty easy to know who is on your team — just look around the field and find the players with the same color jersey. In medicine, teamwork is essential but finding your teammates is not so simple. More often than not, the members of a patient’s care team aren’t even in the same building, and one team member may not even know another clinician is on the team!
A gastrointestinal specialty practice deals with the challenges of this “invisible team” all the time. Before they schedule certain procedures, they need to check their patients’ history to determine, for example, whether they need cardiac clearance. One particular gastro practice working with Clarity was prepping for a patient, and saw a cardiac referral in the patient’s referral history online in Clarity. This allowed them to quickly and easily contact the cardiologist on the patient’s care team, and obtain the required clearance. Had they not had Clarity, they would have had to work back through the PCP in hopes of tracking down the patient’s cardiologist.
It’s great to know who is on your (patient’s) team!
