The Princeton PO’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) is designed to facilitate clinical integration by sharing information between physicians, hospitals, payers, labs and other care providers to enhance patient care quality, improve patient safety, increase efficiency and lower cost.

Our physician-designed portal connects users to a variety of clinical applications, communication tools, and resources designed to provide users with clinical information that will help them make the best decisions for their patients and deliver the high-quality care. The information provided through the Health Information Exchange reduces healthcare costs by avoiding duplicate testing and medical errors, which can cause unnecessary complications, and drug allergies.

As the landscape in healthcare continues to change and quality of care along with excellent patient outcomes continue to be the ultimate objective of our industry, our organization and all its Members are required to participate in the Princeton PO’s Quality Management Program. Our quality program addresses all policies and procedures from both the insurers and the PO as stated in the Princeton PO Par Agreement. The PO informs and educates the members on how to achieve the quality initiative standards, and to modify behavior as needed.

Through quality programs, we are not only able to justify our value in the marketplace with our payers, but we also have another means to demonstrate our continuous advancement as a clinically integrated organization through the use of the Princeton PO’s Health Information Exchange (HIE). The Princeton PO’s HIE gives us actionable data to improve patient outcomes and helps us demonstrate and report on our special arrangements, clinical initiatives, paid for performance and value-based contracts, and our accountable care agreements. Being able to provide fact-based and verifiable information to our payers has allowed us to consistently achieve superlative results on our quality scorecards.

Our Care Management team works collaboratively with payors, physicians, and their office staff to achieve the Triple Aim of Healthcare. By utilizing the Princeton PO’s HIE to identify patients that may require more attention such as High Risk, High Utilization, and Chronic Care patients, our physicians have been able to achieve better outcomes while avoiding unnecessary costs.

Our team is able to monitor data, present findings, and educate office staff on how to use the Princeton PO’s HIE. Our data-centric approach allows our team to assist our providers in maintaining the highest levels of clinical quality by closing gaps in care, while having the smallest possible footprint in their offices.

The Princeton PO’s Care Management team works as an extension of your practice for population health management. The team assists with the following: