iReferral® automatically identifies potential organ and
tissue donors and streamlines the hospital-to-OPO referral
process.
ANN
ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 13,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Corewell
Health™ and Gift of Life Michigan, the federally
designated Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) serving the state
of Michigan, have collaborated to
successfully launch InVita Healthcare Technologies'
iReferral across 34 Corewell Health locations in the nation's
largest hospital launch of iReferral to-date based on number of
facilities.
For those waiting for an organ or tissue donor, timing is
everything.
InVita Healthcare Technologies (InVita) provides iReferral, a
secure healthcare interoperability solution that replaces Corewell
Health's previous time-intensive manual phone process to refer all
prospective organ and tissue donors to Gift of Life Michigan, as
mandated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
iReferral automatically identifies potential organ and tissue
donors based on established criteria and enables the immediate and
secure electronic delivery of the donor referral to Gift of Life
Michigan's iTransplant® System (provided by InVita).
"Corewell Health's partnership with Gift of Life and InVita
allows our nurses to use an automated process which reduces
workload and the potential for error and missed referrals," said
Jill Sheipline, RN, Vice President
and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Corewell Health. "The
iReferral process also enhances the timeliness of referrals and
allows nurses to remain present with the patient and family during
a very challenging and emotional time. For those waiting for an
organ or tissue donor, timing is everything."
Corewell Health, Gift of Life Michigan, and InVita successfully
collaborated to establish a single and scalable iReferral
integration first launched with 18 West
Michigan (formerly Spectrum Health) facilities in
September 2023. Throughout 2024, the
interface was then successfully deployed across 16 additional
Corewell Health facilities, including facilities in Southwest and
Southeast (formerly Beaumont Health) Michigan.
"This was a significant undertaking made possible by the
tremendous efforts of our dedicated staff and partners," said
Dorrie Dils, President and CEO, Gift
of Life Michigan. "This achievement will undoubtedly save countless
hours for those involved in the referral process and ultimately
save more lives through organ and tissue donation."
"We are so proud to work with Corewell Health and Gift of Life
Michigan on the broadest launch of iReferral to date," said
Wade Liu, Chief Product Officer and
General Manager at InVita Healthcare Technologies. "In short time,
Corewell Health has already transmitted over 1,000 potential donors
to Gift of Life Michigan via iReferral, enabling critical nursing
time savings and ensuring all potential donors and families have
the opportunity to donate and save lives."
About Corewell Health™|
corewellhealth.org
People are at the heart of everything we
do, and the inspiration for our legacy of outstanding outcomes,
innovation, strong community partnerships, philanthropy and
transparency. Corewell Health is a not-for-profit health system
that provides health care and coverage with an exceptional team of
65,000+ dedicated people—including more than 12,000 physicians and
advanced practice providers and more than 15,500 nurses providing
care and services in 21 hospitals, 300+ outpatient locations and
several post-acute facilities—and Priority Health, a
provider-sponsored health plan serving more than 1.3 million
members. Through experience and collaboration, we are reimagining a
better, more equitable model of health and wellness. For more
information, visit corewellhealth.org.
About Gift of Life Michigan
| giftoflifemichigan.org
Gift of Life Michigan is a
federally designated organ procurement organization that serves the
state of Michigan as the
intermediary between donors, their families and hospital staff. In
collaboration with Eversight, Gift of Life provides all services
necessary for organ, eye and tissue donation. For more information,
or to sign up on the Donor Registry, visit www.golm.org or call
866.500.5801.
About InVita Healthcare Technologies
| invitahealth.com
InVita provides
mission-critical and chain-of-custody software technologies for
complex medical, forensic, and community care environments.
InVita's solutions streamline clinical workflows, optimize supply
chains, sample tracking, and visibility across donation and
transplantation, blood and plasma operations, the tissue and
implant lifecycle, and environments spanning DNA and forensics.
InVita continues to expand the iReferral℠ and iTransplant℠
platforms supporting nearly 75% of all OPOs in the
United States and used by more than 15,000 medical
professionals across more than 100 organ, tissue, eye,
and birth tissue organizations around the world.
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