Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association





How GRIPA Connect Clinical Integration Works

getting connected in all the ways that matter

Clinical Integration delivers higher quality patient care by creating a connected community of physicians, hospitals, labs and imaging facilities with:

  • electronic access to complete patient information,

  • support from patient care managers, and

  • assistance to fulfill a commitment to evidence-based clinical care

The ease of electronic access

At the heart of our connected community is the GRIPA Connect Web Portal. Now operational, the web site can be found at: https://CI.GRIPAconnect.com. You can log on with a GRIPA-provided password. With a GRIPA-maintained central data repository at its core, the web portal allows patient information to flow freely and securely among physicians, hospitals, labs, pharmacists, etc. Read more about the web portal.

Help with patients

Case and disease management are critical to a Clinical Integration initiative. Fortunately, GRIPA has been offering these services to physicians for a number of years.

  • Nurses and social workers assist in case management for complex patients, reviewing charts and making recommendations to physicians and directly to patients. We have special programs for diabetic and elderly patients.

  • Our Clinical Pharmacy Program provides up-to-the-minute recommendations on such opportunities as half-tab doses and generic drugs, drug interactions and more.

If you are not already making use of our care management services, we urge you to begin by contacting GRIPA Care Management Services at 585-922-1520.

Improving patient outcomes

Clinical Care Guidelines are the final component of Clinical Integration. We are establishing these guidelines and publishing them on the web portal for easy access by all participants. Part of the requirement for Clinical Integration is that GRIPA must monitor and respond to non-compliance. Read more about Clinical Care Guidelines.




Be a part of GRIPA Connect

Here are some ways your practice will be more effective with Clinical Integration:

It’s midnight and you get a call that one of your patients is in the Emergency Room. Do you jump in the car to pull the chart at your office? No, you go online to GRIPA Connect and there is everything you need to know. In the morning, you check back in and ER staff members have updated the chart.

Several of your diabetes patients are struggling with multiple issues—nutrition, exercise, medication schedules. You get them one-to-one attention via a GRIPA case management expert.

Medical researchers add to the literature every day, but can you always keep up? Evidence-based Clinical Care Guidelines help ensure that you stay on top of what’s new and proven. Patient-friendly information sheets you can download and distribute improve patient compliance too.

These are just a few of the benefits of enrolling in GRIPA and GRIPA Connect. We’d like you to join us!

Contact us for more information.

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