CareEntrust is an independent, not-for-profit organization representing two dozen Kansas City-based employers and over 100,000 employees and their dependents. CareEntrust’s mission is to make available a longitudinal view of patient information for consumers and health care entities to improve health care quality, efficiency and safety.

Most health care information today is highly fragmented, existing in paper form or residing in electronic “silos” that greatly limit coordination of care between health care organizations – including hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, physician offices and health plan administrators.

The consequences of our fragmented, compartmentalized health care system are felt by everyone – from patients, to providers, to businesses – in the form of potentially dangerous and avoidable medical errors, unnecessary paperwork, duplicative procedures, rising costs and health care decisions based on incomplete or inaccurate information. In response to this situation, CareEntrust was created to foster greater collaboration through the timely exchange of patient information in a secure setting.

A broad cross-section of employer sponsors provide CareEntrust as a benefit to their employees and dependents. In so doing, they enhance care coordination overall and enable patients to become more actively engaged in their own health care.

The centerpiece of the CareEntrust system is the CareEntrust Health Record, a secure application that aggregates relevant health care information – including clinical, claims, and customer-entered data – and delivers it to health care providers when and where they need it. CareEntrust offers consumers control over their own health history and the status of their current care, with the option of sharing their CareEntrust Health Record with their health care providers. As a result, relevant information is delivered in the right place at the right time.

Find out more about the specific benefits CareEntrust offers to each of the key stakeholders across the health care system – from consumers and clinicians to employers and insurers.