Benefits of referral management
Reduce leakage, accelerate access, and strengthen relationships to keep patients in your network and grow referrals.
Centralized Referral Dashboard
SmartMATCH Decision Support
Patient Journey Tracking
Automated Feedback Loop
Message & Exchange Files with Providers
Send messages to providers and exchange patient files (x-rays, labs, dicoms) in real-time, regardless of the format or size.
Task Management
Assign tasks to yourself, others, or a department and receive notifications when tasks are due, overdue, or completed.
Alert Notifications
Audit Log
Full accountability for every patient, every referral, and every change made in the referral system.
Why you should improve your referral process
46% of the time, patients do not receive the care they need and destination providers do not realize the revenue they could have.
The revenue impact of leakage can be significant, an average of 55-65% is lost annually costing a health system up to $1.54M per employed PCP.
20% of malpractice claims involve missed or delayed diagnoses due to deficits in hand-offs between providers.
63% of referring physicians are dissatisfied with the lack of timely progress updates post referral.
Referral Management FAQ
ReferralMD helps you close the loop with referring providers by automating communication, tracking referral status, and delivering timely updates—ensuring transparency and trust throughout the care journey.
With ReferralMD, you can:
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Automatically notify referring providers when referrals are accepted, scheduled, or completed
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Share referral outcomes and visit notes securely through the platform
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Track every referral in real time, reducing follow-up calls and faxes
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Standardize communication to ensure consistent provider updates
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Improve satisfaction among your referral partners by keeping them informed without extra effort
By making it easy to communicate outcomes and keep providers in the loop, ReferralMD strengthens referral relationships and supports better continuity of care.
ReferralMD triggers alerts when referrals don’t advance within predefined timeframes, based on your workflow rules. This helps teams intervene before cases fall behind.
ReferralMD offers flexible, standards-based integrations with leading EHR systems to streamline referral management directly within your clinical workflow. Whether you’re using Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, or another platform, ReferralMD can connect seamlessly to reduce double data entry and improve efficiency.
With ReferralMD, you can:
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Integrate using HL7, FHIR, or API connections for secure, real-time data exchange
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Send and receive referrals without leaving your EHR
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Auto-populate referral forms with patient and provider data
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Track referral status and outcomes from within your native system
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Reduce IT burden with flexible deployment options and dedicated integration support
Our team works closely with your IT and clinical staff to ensure smooth, secure EHR integration that fits your existing workflows and boosts adoption.
ReferralMD streamlines and automates patient intake by digitizing forms, centralizing information, and triggering workflows based on referral data—all without manual follow-up.
With ReferralMD, you can:
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Send digital intake forms to patients automatically after a referral is received
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Pre-fill forms with referral data to reduce patient effort and improve accuracy
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Route completed forms directly to the appropriate provider or department
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Trigger alerts and tasks for missing information or incomplete submissions
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Integrate intake data into your EHR or scheduling system in real time
By replacing paper forms and phone calls with automated digital tools, ReferralMD reduces delays, improves data accuracy, and helps get patients scheduled faster.
Online consult and referral form templates ensure that all the information is captured when the consult or referral is sent. The system includes templates by specialty which serve as clinical guidelines for consults and referrals. The system form builder allows administrators to easily customize templates using a drag and drop approach with conditional logic to ensure that all the required information is entered and all the files are attached.
Yes. Event-based alerts notify the right staff when key actions or exceptions occur (e.g., missing documents, denials, or completed scheduling), all driven by configurable rules.
Integrates with the tools you already use
ReferralMD integrates with most electronic health records (EHR) systems, practice management systems (PMS), and radiology information systems (RIS) using APIs, HL7, FHIR, or Direct, and we also seamlessly connect with other HIPAA-compliant third-party systems and business intelligence tools.
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