Post-EHR Era: Why CRM

As care delivery focuses on patients, their engagement, outcomes, and satisfaction, the main system should be able to get beyond EHR-based health overviews. CRM was made to tackle this challenge, as it can integrate data from various dispersed clinical systems and shape it into a holistic patient profile with the following elements:

  • Communication history (gathered across all channels such as the EHR, patient mobile apps, medical apps, patient portals and more)
  • PGHD (available from mobile patient applications and patient portals)
  • Patient behavior outline (compiled from both EHR and CRM data, includes an individual’s engagement level, lifestyle, analysis of tests and appointments frequency)
  • Patient income level and insurance information (kept in the healthcare CRM itself)
  • Patient health record (particular data retrieved from the EHR when needed)
  • Patient needs prediction (defined inside the CRM via a variety of algorithms forecasting the relevant set of services for a particular patient. For example, a caregiver can anticipate the need and offer a female patient a “woman health” bundle, if she didn’t come for appointments and checks for a long time)
  • Patient experience improvement strategy (patient’s feedback-based element, allowing caregivers to identify and eliminate any interaction gaps, also within the healthcare CRM realm)
  • Patient needs prediction (defined inside the CRM via a variety of algorithms forecasting the relevant set of services for a particular patient. For example, a caregiver can anticipate the need and offer a female patient a “woman health” bundle, if she didn’t come for appointments and checks for a long time)
  • Patient experience improvement strategy (patient’s feedback-based element, allowing caregivers to identify and eliminate any interaction gaps, also within the healthcare CRM realm)
Using this CRM-molded multifaceted patient profile, providers can combine the traditional healthcare “caregiving first” approach with salespeople’s “perception first” credo to interact with patients from both patient-treatment and customer-service sides.
Benefits Of The Patient-Centric Era
Apart from a full compliance with the main objectives of the value-based care delivery, CRM-driven communication allows caregivers to reach a number of essential goals:
  • patient engagement
  • systematic care
  • reduced readmissions
  • improved health outcomes
  • increased patient loyalty
If you have any opinions on the place of CRM in the healthcare IT landscape, please don’t hesitate to address them in comments.