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New administrator features coming from MX this fall!

We know that health data is only valuable when it is useful to your team. With that in mind, we have an exciting upgrade to MX Access, our longitudinal health record service, rolling out this fall based on participant feedback. Here’s a preview for our IT partners and administrators on what’s ahead for your organization:…

New MX Access upgrades bringing you powerful health information tools

The Manifest MedEx team has been hard at work all summer on a major update to our MX Access services, rolling out later this fall. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to use longitudinal health records (which cover 2–5 years of data from across California) in your daily workflow. We’re adding…

Participant Spotlight: A California ACO delivering real-time data to 72 independent practices and more than 17,000 patients

Lisa Hahn is bringing fresh ideas to value-based care in Southern California. Leveraging her experience in sales and marketing, Hahn has spent the last five years working on population health programs, including her current role as program director for the ACO and Community Care Network at the Inland Empire Foundation for Medical Care (IEFMC). The…

Bob Jako: How to build physician adaptability in your healthcare organization

How do leaders help healthcare change? From electronic health record systems to tracking outcomes to incorporating MX encounter notifications, physicians are facing a lot of transformation in a short amount of time. Bob Jako knows what it takes to get people in healthcare organizations to work together to achieve great things. Before joining Manifest MedEx…

Manifest MedEx Growing Quickly as California’s Nonprofit Health Data Utility

SAN FRANCISCO–Today, Manifest MedEx (MX) is announcing major new progress toward the goal of connecting healthcare in California. The 18-month-old organization is announcing that it is adding Heritage California and Hill Physicians — two of the largest medical groups in the state — and Stanford Health Care to the network. This will bring an estimated…

Blue Shield of California pushes for greater interoperability

On June 25th, Blue Shield of California with a coalition of 50 national provider organizations and health plans, sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) advocating for increased sharing of electronic patient records among providers. The letter came in response to a CMS request for feedback on proposed rules related to the sharing of information, otherwise…

MX Hosts ‘Better Data for Opioid Action’ Event in Los Angeles

Manifest MedEx assembled a roundtable dinner to discuss “Better Data for Opioid Action” with health leaders in Southern California in February 2018. This event brought together innovators from the academic, public health, health plan, health provider, and technology perspectives to discuss ways that information can transform opioid abuse prevention and treatment in our state. The…

Delivering health information for Blue Shield of California participants

Manifest MedEx (MX) is pleased to be part of a new commitment to quickly expand health information sharing across the state. Blue Shield of California announced in early March 2018 that it will start requiring its providers to participate in the nonprofit MX network, including substantial support for its accountable care organization (ACO) participants. We’ll…

Inland Empire Health Plan incentives now available for regional hospitals that use the MX network to improve patient care

Inland Empire Health Plan is pledging $30 million in pay for performance incentives to regional hospitals in 2018, with $6 million available for hospitals who participate with MX and use MX services in 2018. If you are an eligible Inland Empire hospital, you can meet one of the five performance measures by participating with MX,…

Cal INDEX and Inland Empire HIE will merge

Cal INDEX and Inland Empire HIE will merge to form California’s largest health information exchange; former White House technology advisor named CEO Statewide nonprofit health information exchange will include more than 16 million health information records and participation from 150 provider partners SAN FRANCISCO (January 10, 2017) — The California Integrated Data Exchange (Cal INDEX)…