Faxes?
Invented in 1843 by Alexander Bain.
Put your referral button in every patient chart
Make it effortless for providers to identify eligible patients and refer them to your solution, without leaving their current workflow.
- No portal for referrers to learn
- Complete referrals, not faxed fragments
- Status returns to the referring chart
Still struggling with the traditional referral process?
Portals?
Nobody is visiting your portal, and when they do it takes 25 clicks to send a referral.
Traditional integration?
Clunky, costly and won't be done for another 6 months at best.
Order-sets?
Impossible to maintain.
Engage the provider in the precise moment decisions are being made
A button in the EHR that lights up for the patients who fit your criteria, and a referral form filled from the chart.
Eliminate the guesswork
Referring clinicians see which patients qualify as the chart opens. The button lights up only for patients who fit your criteria, and the check runs before anyone clicks.
Minimize data entry
The referral form fills itself from the chart. Demographics, contact details, insurance and the clinical reason come from the record, with no extra clicks.
Close the loop
Status comes back into the referring provider's chart, so they see what happened to the patient without leaving the EHR or calling you.
What changes for your intake team
Referrals arrive complete
Demographics, insurance, the referring physician and NPI, and the clinical reason all come from the chart, so nobody is chasing basics.
The referrer keeps seeing you
Status comes back to the chart they already work in. That visibility is what earns the next referral.
What the referring practice has to do
Less than you'd think, which is why referrers keep using it.
Install the extension
Chrome or Edge, one install per workstation. Practices that manage browsers centrally can deploy it by policy.
Sign in once
The button uses the sign-in the physician already has. No new password and no portal.
Nothing else
The button stays quiet until a patient fits your criteria. There is no interface for the practice to build or maintain.
Case study: a digital health platform
One site to hundreds of practices
SaRA Health used Bridge to work across its customers' EHRs without building integrations. The same platform carries your referral button.
Questions referral teams ask first
- Which practices and EHRs can it reach?
- Any practice on a browser-based EHR. 38 are mapped today, listed here, and mapping a new one is our work, not yours.
- How does it decide who qualifies?
- You set the criteria, such as coverage, diagnosis, age and provider. Bridge runs them against the open chart in the physician's browser. Where the chart can't confirm something, the panel says so and lets the physician refer anyway, with a note.
- What arrives with the referral?
- Demographics, insurance, the referring physician and NPI, the clinical reason and anything the physician adds, sent from their browser to your intake system.
- Does it replace the EHR's own orders?
- No. Where a referral needs an order in the EHR, that still happens there. Bridge handles finding the patient, filling the referral and returning its status, alongside the EHR's ordering.
- What does the referring physician see afterwards?
- Where the patient is, such as received, contacted, scheduled or enrolled. It shows in the same panel, in their chart, so they don't have to chase you.
Bridge SDK
Go beyond referrals
Bridge was built developer-first. The Bridge SDK allows for even more customization and innovation. Take a look at our public SDK and get in touch to learn how to inject your existing platform into the EHR.
import {
getPatient,
onPatientChanged
} from '@arrowhealth/bridge-sdk'
getPatient().then(
patient => console.log('patient', patient)
)
const offPatientChanged = onPatientChanged(patient => {
console.log('patient:changed', patient.id)
})
// offPatientChanged() call when page or application unloads
See a referral sent end to end
Twenty minutes, and a patient who matches your criteria. Shortly after, we'll set you up with a working demo you can install and use yourself.