A new partnership announced this week between Zocdoc and Elation Health aims to help doctors and other providers using Elation’s electronic health records reach new patients in the Zocdoc marketplace and reduce administrative burden.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Through the new partnership, the vendor’s existing scheduling software integrates with Zocdoc, automatically adding online booked appointments to the supplier’s schedule in their Elation EHRs, according to the announcement. Today.
The company says its tool is EHR-agnostic and has completed more than 150 calendar integrations, aggregating medical appointment availability in real time on Zocdoc.com or on the free app.
“We are supporting a primary care-led future where providers have the choice to maintain their independence, and Zocdoc is an important tool to improve patient access. – enabling new methods of reaching new patients efficiently and maintaining schedule density,” said Dr Kyna Fong, co-founder and CEO of Elation Health, in a statement.
TREND TO BIGGER
Zocdoc says patients can find and book appointments across more than 250 specialties, and verify and share health insurance information with doctors when they book online or on the Zocdoc app.
In March, maternity and postpartum care specialist Zaya Care and Zocdoc reached out to patients nationwide, becoming the first lactation consultant online to book an appointment.
Leoni Runge, founder and CEO of Zaya Care said: “Through the partnership with Zocdoc, we will be better able to grow our presence and accelerate progress helping more patients. pregnant and postpartum access the care they need and achieve positive health outcomes”. , in that message.
ON PROFILE
“At Zocdoc, our core is unified, and we’re proud to partner with Elation to provide our general customers – and the patients they serve – with a seamless, integrated scheduling experience fully,” said Dr. Oliver Kharraz, founder and CEO of Zocdoc.
“At a time when the need for primary care providers is greater than ever, we look forward to helping the tens of thousands of clinicians using Elation more effectively access new patients and manage line their patients more efficiently.”
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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