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
Read More
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
Read More
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
Read More
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
Read More
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
Read More
Fresenius Kidney Care Rolls Out National Data Exchange Network
What You Should Know: - Fresenius Kidney Care, the dialysis services
division of Fresenius Medical Care North America, rolled out CommonWell health
data exchange services to its dialysis facilities nationwide. - This initiative is a significant stride towards better-coordinated care for patients requiring life-sustaining dialysis for kidney failure and will enable the real-time exchange of critical patient health information--allowing healthcare providers to access the most
Read More
Accounting for the Social Determinants of Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a medical crisis. Since the highly contagious disease hit American shores in early 2020, the virus has dramatically changed all sectors of society, negatively impacting everything from food supply chains and sporting events to the nation’s mental and behavioral health. For some people, work-from-home plans and limited access to entertainment are manageable obstacles. For others, the shuttered schools, lost wages, and social isolation spell disaster –
Read More
The COVID-19 Data Challenges Facing Payers
Both payers and providers can benefit from the same or similar high-quality data and can work together to provide the best possible services to patients with COVID-19 while avoiding overloading the healthcare system. The key is to use combined payer, clinical, and social data plus technology such as telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI). Payer Perspective on COVID-19 The overriding concern for payers during the COVID-19 crisis is the need to support member health. During an
Read More
HHS Announces Investments for STAR HIE Program to Support State and Local Public Health Agencies
What You Should Know: - HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will award up to five 5 cooperative
agreements under the Strengthening
the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health Agencies via Health Information Exchange
(STAR HIE) Program. The U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity to expand and
accelerate innovative
Read More
Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds
What You Should Know: - A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University shows that using electronic health information exchanges (HIE) to prepopulate forms for notifiable disease reports increases reporting and completeness of information. - The system extracts data from the Indiana Health Information Exchange and fills in the information fields on the official state reporting form. - The form is delivered to an ambulatory care clinic using the HIE network, acting as a
Read More
