“Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN), a global healthcare technology company, announced a new agreement with the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), to help simplify patient disability benefits claims through secure, clinical electronic health record (EHR) retrieval from health systems.
The new agreement between Cerner and the SSA aims to speed the transfer of relevant, patient-directed medical records from the health system to the SSA, potentially cutting transfer times from weeks or months to seconds or minutes.
Each year, the SSA requests more than 15 million medical records from healthcare providers to help make decisions on more than 4 million disability claims. Currently, most of the medical records SSA receives are in the form of faxed or mailed scanned images, a cumbersome process and the most frequent source of delay in the disability determination process.
‘Cerner is proud to help the federal government better support those in need by getting them the benefits they are entitled to more quickly and efficiently,’ said Sam Lambson, vice president of interoperability, Cerner. ‘SSA’s work with Cerner will help streamline the process and is an important example of how systems that connect to each other can help improve our health and quality of life.’…” Read the full release here.
Source: Cerner and Social Security Administration to Improve Disability Insurance Claims Process for Patients – February 17, 2022. Cerner.
