RightFax Healthcare Direct & Fax HIE

Many organizations have already freed themselves from paper faxing by adopting RightFax or the fully managed Private Fax Cloud®.

That alone is enough to manage referrals, lab requests, care summaries, insurance forms, internal documents, and much more without printing or manually faxing one single sheet of paper.

However, direct electronic HIE has generally required either (a) costly third-party software or (b) a clunky, government-developed, open-source alternative. Neither option makes sense for organizations without large IT teams with ample capacity for new projects.

What if the benefits of seamless EHR fax integration could extend to directed exchange communication, which accounts for hundreds of millions of nationwide transactions per year?

OpenText’s RightFax Healthcare Direct solution fills the gap between EHR faxing and directed exchange. If you've been tasked with fulfilling Meaningful Use criteria quickly and cost-effectively, you will be able to:

• Maximize EHR returns by leverage an existing RightFax integration for more flexible communication.
• Gain peace of mind by relying on OpenText's information security professionals for your critical HIE and Direct Project compliance.
• Avoid messaging problems by letting Healthcare Direct automatically identify Direct-ready recipients and automatically fall back to faxing when needed.

RightFax’s broad deployment options and numerous native EHR integrations have already changed the way healthcare organizations exchange information. Now, with Healthcare Direct, it's doing so once again.

RightFax Interoperability with the Direct Project

The Direct Project, part of the ONC-funded Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), is one of the most innovative large-scale health information exchange projects to date. It consists of two fundamental components that facilitate secure online HIE between EMR / EHR customers, federal and state / local health agencies, and other key stakeholders.

The Applicability Statement for Secure Health Transport outlines specific encryption and authentication protocols for internet-based HIE.

Similarly, XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging provides guidance on direct exchange metadata, interaction with endpoints, and other requirements for each individual message.

These standards can be complex to implement, and may involve major IT interruptions, resulting in lost time and money in pursuit of compliance. On the other hand, with RightFax Healthcare Direct, OpenText has already done the heavy lifting, letting you focus more on care-enhancing connectivity and less on arcane technical criteria.

The Next Step for HIE with RightFax

As a leading healthcare fax consultancy with RightFax engineers coast to coast, Paperless Productivity® can help you:

• Achieve an ultra-reliable, EHR-integrated fax environment with minimal maintenance.
• Implement Healthcare Direct with a new or existing RightFax platform.
• Extract a greater RightFax ROI through integration with medical forms processing solutions that reduce both paper and manual input even further.

To learn more about Healthcare Direct and other ways to get more value out of your digital fax investment, please contact our team today.