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During Cancer Survivors Month, we celebrate the milestones that define survivorship - the end of treatment, a clear scan, another year cancer-free.

But survivorship often begins much earlier than we think.

It starts with a completed referral.
It starts with a scheduled appointment.
It starts when a patient successfully reaches the next step in their care journey.

Unfortunately, many patients face a complex maze of providers, appointments, and care transitions. Every handoff creates an opportunity for delays, missed follow-ups, or patients falling out of care altogether.

That's why patient navigation plays such a critical role in oncology. Navigators help patients overcome barriers, stay engaged, and move through the care continuum with confidence. But to do that effectively, they need visibility into where patients are progressing—and where they may be getting stuck.

In our latest blog, we explore the hidden connection between referral completion, patient navigation, and cancer survivorship—and why ensuring patients never lose their way may be one of the most impactful survivorship strategies of all.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3S7TBXq

Health systems face a familiar question when care coordination programs outgrow spreadsheets, email chains, and manual processes: Do we build something in the EHR—or buy a purpose-built solution?

In a new article, careMESH Founder & CEO Dr. Peter Tippett explores why more health systems are moving away from custom internal builds and toward standards-based, EHR-integrated platforms.

As interoperability standards like FHIR and HL7 mature, the conversation is changing. The question is no longer whether third-party solutions can integrate with the EHR. “The question for health system leaders is not whether to integrate external tools, but how.”

The article examines six critical decision criteria:

✔️ Fit-for-purpose functionality
✔️ Time-to-value
✔️ EHR integration complexity
✔️ Ongoing maintenance burden
✔️ Clinical customization needs
✔️ Staff bandwidth

Most importantly, it explores how health systems can improve care coordination, reduce referral leakage, accelerate time-to-treatment, and support care teams without creating another long-term IT project.

Read the full article: https://bit.ly/4dTeNaK

Build vs. Buy: Why Health Systems Should Stop Reinventing the Wheel on Care Coordination — careMESH NAVIGATE is a care coordination, patient navigation, and care-team management platform that guides patients through personalized care pathways, from referral through treatment to long-term follow-up. It was designed from the ground up to delight every hospital stakeholder and to address every criter

Behind every successful patient journey is often a Nurse Navigator helping keep care connected.

From coordinating referrals and tracking down records to guiding patients through overwhelming moments, Nurse Navigators do some of the most important, and often unseen, work in healthcare.

As care coordination becomes more complex, their role has never been more essential.

This National Nurses Month, we celebrate the Nurse Navigators who serve as advocates, educators, coordinators, and trusted guides for patients and families every day.

Thank you for the work patients may never see, but never forget. 💙