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Why Sandlot Solutions work

The products and services that drive Sandlot Solutions were designed by physicians who understand how medicine is practiced in the real world. That’s why they uniquely enable communities to improve quality and reduce the cost of healthcare at the system level — by providing both the technology and the proven experience to create health information exchanges (HIEs) that really work.

We provide a more complete electronic health record to give physicians better access to information right when they need it — enabling more informed decisions for patients at the point of care.

Sandlot team members spend as much time on the high touch aspects of HIE as on the high-tech — with strategic support to the community as you create exchange partnerships and with hands-on communication, training, and assistance to clinicians as they join the exchange. That’s why it works.

Improving care and controlling costs at the same time

Sandlot Solutions allow doctors and other medical professionals to make better, quicker, and safer medical decisions. We take advantage of electronic medical records shared by doctors and their patients and extend those benefits across the medical community to all providers with whom the patients come in contact. The results are:

  • More informed decisions at the point of care
  • Fewer repeated tests
  • Shared yet secure access to patient data by all members of the care team
  • Improved quality reporting

“I know how much I get from fast, accurate patient data. Now my patients are experiencing it too. Better use of both our time at every appointment.”

— Julian Armstrong, MD, practicing physician; President, Sandlot Board of Directors

Why Sandlot Solutions can deliver the right HIE for you

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

  • 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
  • It’s working right now in North Texas:
    • 1,400+ healthcare providers using Sandlot services
    • 1.4 million patients with comprehensive, longitudinal electronic health records
    • Tens of thousands of patient records updated every day
  • True interoperability with market-leading EMR systems. Read more about our SandlotConnect® Solution
  • Existing policies, contracts and protocols you can use as is or modify for all HIE partners. Read more about our Business Services
  • One-of-a-kind referral management that keeps physicians connected
  • Proven rapid implementation and ongoing support. Read more about our Technology and Adoption Services

We’ve always been about meaningful use

Physicians using Sandlot Solutions have been realizing the federal Health and Human Services (HHS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) Meaningful Use goals in their practices for years.

Sandlot helps healthcare organizations securely:

  • Access clinical information across health care organizations, and exchange health information with their partners in patients’ care
  • Transmit prescriptions, order tests, and document patient progress
  • Engage patients by sending reminders for preventive and follow-up care
  • Submit immunization and other important health information to the appropriate public health agencies

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 HHS EHR meaningful use criteria simply affirm the benefits of Sandlot’s innovative approach to managing patients’ health care.

Watch How Sandlot Solutions Can Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry

Leading healthcare companies vied against one another in an editorial competition in the second annual Modern Healthcare IT Case Study Contest. The competition was designed to recognize healthcare IT implementation projects that have improved patient care and that also may be eligible for funding under the economic stimulus law.

North Texas Specialty Physicians (NTSP) is honored to receive Modern Healthcare's 2010 IT Case Study Contest first place award. Read the full case study and infoatsandlotsolutions [dot] com (contact us) to schedule a live demonstration.

NTSP, an IPA comprised of nearly 600 physicians, envisioned a technology solution that would gather and use real-time patient information that could be parsed from multiple sources to provide faster, better and safer patient care, enhance physician communication and provide fiscally responsible care within one single sign-on application. In 2008, NTSP finalized development and implemented SandlotConnect®, a comprehensive and interoperable Health Information Exchange (HIE) that delivers on the one elusive promise of HIEs: broad and sustained adoption by healthcare professionals.

NTSP's HIE collects, communicates and distributes medical data to physicians on disparate electronic health-record applications, providing healthcare providers with real-time parsed clinical data at the point of care. Click here to see real case examples. Today, SandlotConnect houses over 1.5 million patient records. It is connected to seven North Texas hospitals and is interoperable with four Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems.

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

Karen Van Wagner, PhD
Executive Director, North Texas Specialty Physicians

Tom Deas Jr., MD
Board Member, North Texas Specialty Physicians