To help close critical health care gaps in rural and medically underserved communities where access to specialists may be limited, OCHIN offers innovative solutions to help primary care providers connect more patients to high-quality specialty and behavioral health care.
These navigators support both specialty mental health practices and clinics that provide integrated behavioral health service in primary care, including chronic case management.
eConsult services improve patients’ access to needed care, wherever they live.
AristaMD enables asynchronous electronic consultations with specialists (eConsults) to improve patient access to the timely treatment they need. This integrated eConsult solution allows easy collaboration between primary care and specialty providers to support high quality, coordinated patient care. It integrates seamlessly into referral workflows to quickly and cost effectively launch specialist eConsults using your own specialists or those provided by AristaMD.
RubiconMD is an eConsult service that integrates high-quality specialist expertise into primary care for more efficient, cost-effective care. By connecting primary care clinicians to same-day insights from top specialists, RubiconMD ensures all patients have access to the specialty care they need, no matter where they live.
OCHIN network data reflects local, regional, and national trends of limited access and delayed referrals to specialists, which are drivers of poor health outcomes.
In a 2019 analysis, OCHIN found time to appointment was 44 days on average across patients served in the network, and referrals that took longer than 2 months to schedule were 40% less likely to be completed.
In 2020, average wait time for specialty referrals was 52 days, and in 2021, the average wait time was even longer at 56 days.
This year, OCHIN is proud to recognize a quarter century of shared progress with our national member network and partners.
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