{"id":1164,"date":"2013-04-01T11:58:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2016-12-15T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:56:54","slug":"coopercare-link-web-portal-gives-community-providers-real-time-access-to-their-patients%e2%80%99-cooper-medical-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/2013\/04\/01\/coopercare-link-web-portal-gives-community-providers-real-time-access-to-their-patients%e2%80%99-cooper-medical-records\/","title":{"rendered":"CooperCare Link Web Portal Gives Community Providers Real-time Access to their Patients\u2019 Cooper Medical Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCooperCare Link <\/a>allows physicians to electronically view their patients\u2019Cooper medical records, including their test and lab results, in real time,\u201d explains Raymond L. Baraldi, Jr., MD, Interim Chief Medical Officer at Cooper University Health Care. \u201cUsers can schedule a patient appointment with a Cooper physician, and monitor their patients throughout their time at Cooper including registration, admission, discharge and follow-up. Physicians can order outpatient lab or imaging studies at Cooper, and communicate with Cooper physicians via a secure messaging function.They can also choose to receive notifications when their patient arrives at Cooper\u2019s ED or Urgent Care Center, or is admitted to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy making all relevant patient information available in one conveniently accessible and secure place, CooperCare Link <\/a>streamlines communication between Cooper physicians and our clinical partners in the community,\u201d Dr. Baraldi adds.\u201cIt leverages technology to ensure that all providers are, quite literally, on the same page when it comes to the care of their shared patients, and it makes it faster and easier than sending and receiving faxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

To ensure CooperCare Link meets the needs of its users, Cooper enlisted ten non-Cooper physician offices in South Jersey as pilot sites when developing CooperCare Link. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. For example, when one of Dr. Cathleen Finan\u2019s patients was seen at Cooper\u2019s Urgent Care Center in Cherry Hill over the weekend, Dr. Finan immediately received a notification in her email. \u201cI logged into CooperCare Link, reviewed the patient\u2019s chart, had my office manager print out the after visit summary and attached it to the patient\u2019s chart. I was completely up to speed when the patient arrived in my office the following week,\u201d Dr. Finan explained. \u201cIt was exactly the way medicine should be practiced.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Lara Bruneau, a Family Medicine physician in Mount Laurel, NJ,states \u201cIt is comforting to know I have the ability to track my patient\u2019scare at Cooper, know which Cooper physicians are treating them, and have a means by which to communicate with the physicians.It helps improve the continuity of care for the patient.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCooperCare Link has been fully vetted by Cooper\u2019s legal team and chief privacy officer\u201d, Anthony J. Mazzarelli, MD, JD,<\/a> Cooper\u2019s Senior V P of Operations\/Deputy CMO points out, stressing that all appropriate HIPA A legal requirements have been addressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the emergence of accountable care organizations (ACOs), the healthcare terrain is changing,\u201d Dr. Mazzarelli adds, \u201cand communication among providers becomes more important than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re committed to staying on the leading edge and leveraging technology tools that improve this communication and, ultimately, enhance patient care,\u201d Dr. Mazzarelli states.\u201cCooperCare Link is one of these tools.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cCooperCare Link allows physicians to electronically view their patients\u2019Cooper medical records, including their test and lab results, in real time,\u201d explains Raymond L. Baraldi, Jr., MD, Interim Chief Medical Officer at Cooper University Health Care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,55,4],"tags":[128],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-dzarnosky","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1164","7":"format-standard","8":"category-featured","9":"category-new-initiatives","10":"category-news-updates","11":"post_tag-cooper-care-link"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}