Clinical Alerts
As a feature of Patient360, Clinical Alerts notifies you of patient activity detected across national health networks. It inherits Patient360's identity resolution to link alerts to enrolled patients and document retrieval to deliver the source document.
Core Function
Detection is based on network document exchange, which provides cross-setting visibility into patient activity wherever participating organizations share clinical information. This includes inpatient, outpatient, emergency, post-acute, and specialty care settings.
Alerts indicate that qualifying activity occurred. For organizations with the C-CDA storage license, the source document associated with each alert is available on the patient's chart for review or follow-up.
Key Capabilities
The following capabilities describe how Clinical Alerts operate and what each alert delivers:
- Document-driven detection: Triggered by clinical document exchange between participating organizations
- Cross-setting visibility: Awareness across multiple care environments
- Source document availability: For licensed organizations, the source document is available on the patient's chart
- Notification delivery: FHIR Subscription or Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
Use Cases
Organizations implement Clinical Alerts to support:
- Care coordination and case-management workflows
- High-risk patient monitoring and outreach programs
- Emergency department, outpatient, and inpatient visit awareness
- Transition-of-care and post-acute follow-up
- Population health and utilization monitoring programs
Important Limitations
Clinical Alerts provides situational awareness based on observed document exchange activity. It does not replace facility-generated HL7 v2 ADT feeds, does not guarantee detection of all encounters, and should not be treated as an authoritative encounter history.