Referral management software provides health care organizations with a system to keep track of patient referrals and decrease out-of-network referral practices. A few benefits referral management software brings to the patient, physician, referral networks, and health care administrators include: reduced leakage, increased completion rates of referrals, and improved utilization.
Referral management software supports and streamlines the entire referral process, minimizes human error, increases patient satisfaction, and facilitates the accurate sharing of patient information across organizations and networks. Hospitals and practices can also leverage the analytics capabilities within referral management software to discover actionable referral pattern insight.
To qualify for inclusion in the Referral Management category, a product must:
Leverage information that exists within an EHR and other patient data sources
Keep track of and consolidate existing and historical patient referrals into a central database
Develop referral workflows