Electronic Referral Management:
Bottom-line Benefits and Quality Gains
Effectively used, electronic referral management provides an alternative to the cumbersome, bureaucratic, paper-based referral process that has plagued physician practices, hospitals and health systems for decades. Only through e-referral can healthcare organizations improve information exchange, enhance patient care continuity and end the costly, time-consuming and error-prone chore of faxing, photocopying and filing paper referral documents.

In this issue brief, you'll learn how high-profile organizations such as Boston Medical Center (BMC) are using Carefx's eReferral solution to build "a sustainable referral network" and facilitate secure health information exchange between primary care providers, physician specialists and a network of community health centers (CHCs).