What You Should Know: - Contexture, Arizona’s health information exchange (HIE), today announced that Unite Us will serve as the technology platform for CommunityCares, the statewide referral system designed to address social determinants of health (SDOH) needs in Arizona. - Unite Us is an enterprise technology company providing the digital infrastructure to power connected health and social care ecosystems. As part of the partnership, the new CommunityCares SDOH program is made
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Maryland Passes Legislation for HIE to Operate as State Health Data Utility
What You Should Know: - Maryland State Legislature has passed inaugural legislation, mandating the state-designated health information exchange (HIE), CRISP, to operate as the state-designated health data utility (HDU) beginning Oct. 1. - Effective October 1, 2022, state law will require the state-designated HIE to provide data in real-time to individuals and organizations involved in the treatment and care coordination of patients and to public health officials to support public
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Michigan Health Information Network Taps PointClickCare to Expand Its Network Throughout Michigan
What You Should Know: - The Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN), the nonprofit state-wide health information network, recently announced that it is partnering with PointClickCare Technologies, the largest post-acute electronic medical record vendor in the country, to advance and deepen healthcare collaboration, care coordination, and interoperability by offering access to real‐time insights at any stage of a patient’s journey. - Although Michigan has experienced
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Analysis: Is Oracle Cerner Planning to Build A National EHR?
Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post-acquisition. The key elements of this vision included: - Developing a solution for a national EHR database. - Leveraging this solution, and similar smaller-scale connected EHR initiatives, to provide life science, pharma and other users with a rich environment for research, clinical trials and drug
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Connecting the Dots – Building Data Bridges for a Better Healthcare Future
Healthcare data is increasing at an exponential rate. Approximately one-third of the world’s data volume is being generated by the healthcare industry. By 2025, the compound annual growth rate of healthcare data will reach 36% – that’s 6% faster than manufacturing, 10% faster than financial services, and 11% faster than media and entertainment. In addition to information captured during visits with healthcare professionals, personal health information is being created by an increasingly
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Arizona to Implement a Statewide Social Determinants of Health Closed Loop Referral System
What You Should Know: - Health Current, Arizona’s health information exchange (HIE), today announced the selection of NowPow as the vendor of choice for Arizona’s closed-loop referral system (CLRS) to address social determinants of health (SDOH) needs in Arizona. - By connecting healthcare and community service providers on a single statewide technology platform, this new service promises to streamline the referral process, foster easier access to vital services, and provide confirmation
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6 HIEs Form New Consortium to Drive Population Health Improvements Via Data Sharing Interoperability
What You Should Know: - A group of six health information exchanges (HIE) announced today their formation of the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI). - The 501(c)(3) CRSI aims to help drive individual and population health improvements across the nation through robust and innovative sharing of health information. - Collective, CRSI connects over 80 million records for patients across several states and provide a wide range of services to healthcare
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HHS Awards $20M in Funds to Increase Data Sharing Between HIEs & Immunization Registries
What You Should Know: - The ONC today unveiled a series of investments to improve
the sharing of health information related to vaccination. - The new investments will provide opportunities to track
vaccination progress, help clinicians contact high-risk patients, and help
identify patients due to receive the second dose of the vaccine. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
acting through the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today
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5 Myth-Busting New Hospital ADT Notification Requirements
When doctors know their patients have been to the hospital, they can act fast to provide needed support. Widespread use of hospital event notifications is associated with all kinds of health benefits, including a 10 percent decrease in readmissions for Medicare beneficiaries. These event notifications are one of the simplest, easiest (most-bipartisan!), and most impactful changes we can make to improve patient outcomes in U.S. healthcare. To this goal, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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Unite Us Expands Social Determinants of Health Platform to 6 States
What You Should Know: - Unite Us, the tech company building coordinated care
networks nationwide announced a significant expansion to its partnership with
Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII), a health information exchange,
to six additional states. - This growing partnership aims to break down existing obstacles between
clinical and social service providers to allow for improved SDoH workflows, comprehensive,
whole-person care with trackable outcomes and data, and the creation
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