Sample Letter to Referring Physician

Soarian® Communication and Promotion Toolkit- Sample Letter to Referring Physician

The leadership team at [Insert Organization Name] is pleased to bring you exciting news about our plans to significantly upgrade our Electronic Health Record platform and capabilities. We have partnered with Siemens Healthcare as our primary vendor and have selected Soarian® Clinicals as the core of our IT infrastructure. Soarian Clinicals is a modern web-based application that will provide a wide range of new, valuable capabilities in support of our efforts to better serve our referral community.

[Tailor the paragraph that follows based on your purchased modules, implementation plans, and anticipated benefits] As a result of our purchase, [Insert Hospital Name] will be able to provide benefits such as EHR services to our referring physicians including remote access to the results repository, electronic delivery of inpatient summaries using an industry standard Continuity of Care Document or CCD, and acceptance of standardized inbound patient data from your office EMR. In addition to these new services, this major upgrade in information technology will support our ongoing efforts to deliver the highest quality, safest care possible. [Tailor the sentence that follows based on your purchased modules and implementation plans] In the upcoming months we will be implementing advanced support capabilities such as Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), electronic medication reconciliation, decision support and clinical checking capability, medication administration using bar coding technology and remote access to the online medical record for completion purposes.

Planning and implementation work have already begun, and we are enthusiastic about our progress. We look forward to working with you to make this project successful. If you have questions or want to learn more, please contact [Insert Contact Information] at [Insert Organization Name].

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