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Sandlot Business Services

One of the greatest advantages Sandlot Solutions offers is a proven process for real-world planning, implementation and operations. We make sure your HIE is realistically sustainable from both an operations and financial perspective.

Supporting SandlotConnect® or your HIE platform

Our Business Services are designed to support a SandlotConnect HIE solution, but they can just as easily be adapted to support your own HIE platform. 

+HIE Project Planning and Implementation

Sandlot has established policies, procedures and guides for successful planning and implementation for physicians, facilities, and ancillary providers. We include strategies for governance structure, workflow planning for all stakeholders, and an HIE Value Assessment Toolkit so your organization can run a sustainable HIE.

+HIE Operating Procedures

The diverse groups that come together to build, implement, and support HIE and EMR solutions require operating procedures that communicate a clear direction and create bridges to get work done. Sandlot has identified the areas required for successful HIE and EMR adoption and implementation:

  • Focus on workflow analysis
  • Focus on benefits and results-driven implementation
  • Focus on intuitive design
  • Participation in vendor training for training staff and users groups
  • Document processes

+HIE Contracting Tool Kit

Using our supplied templates “as is” or customizing them to match your individual needs, you’ll be able to create strong and cooperative exchange partnerships.

Building a more effective exchange. Quickly

Without contracts, agreements and working protocols between data sources, physician practices, patients and payers, a health information exchange (HIE) is just a bunch of wires and code. Our documentation helps you efficiently create a working exchange.

Our toolkits include:

 

  • Templates for contracts between the HIE and healthcare organizations, including data sources such as labs, radiology or imaging centers, pharmacies
  • Templates for participation agreement between the HIE and physician groups or individual offices
  • Templates for opt-in/opt-out authorization for patients
  • Community-wide protocols and procedures for ongoing utilization and system growth
  • Recommendations for governance
  • Security procedures

Overview of NTSP & Sandlot, LLC 

North Texas Specialty Physicians (NTSP), an independent physician association based in Fort Worth, has been working with healthcare organizations across North Texas to build a Health Information Exchange (HIE) known as SandlotConnect®. NTSP Executive Director Karen Van Wagner, Ph.D. lays out four key strategies that appear to have been successful in winning broad and sustained acceptance by clinicians. Read the full article recently published in Healthcare Informatics.

To see how an HIE like SandlotConnect can benefit your healthcare community, bshumanatsandlotsolutions [dot] com (schedule) a real-time demonstration today.

In addition to SandlotConnect, Sandlot, LLC can deliver the right HIE with the services and support necessary to simplify health information exchange implementation, control system-wide costs, and transform the model of care physicians provide their patients.

Whether you are creating a statewide or community exchange, Sandlot offers a truly unique and proven approach:

  • A product created by physicians for physicians to match the way they work every day and help them make the best decision at the point of care. Click here to see real case examples.
  • True interoperability with market-leading EMR systems.
  • Existing policies, contracts and protocols you can use as is or modify for all HIE partners. Learn more about Sandlot's Business Services.
  • Proven rapid implementation and ongoing support with Sandlot's Technology and Adoption Services.

Physicians using Sandlot Solutions today are improving the quality, safety and efficiency of health care, effectively coordinating care, managing population health, and engaging patients - while ensuring privacy and security. The final EHR meaningful use criteria affirm the benefits of Sandlot's innovative approach to managing patients' health care.

The first step to implementing the best health information exchange (HIE) for your community is working with people who have been right where you're standing today. bshumanatsandlotsolutions [dot] com (Contact) Sandlot today to see what the best solution is for you and your patients.
 

Data security and patient privacy

In addition to building in technology support for patient privacy, we include templates for all of the agreements you need to ensure that users are fully informed of privacy issues and are in compliance. Review our Patient Privacy Policy.