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CareConnectMD Partners With Manifest MedEx To Deliver Value-Based, Wrap-Around Care to Medically Complex Patients
CareConnectMD is a value-based care provider for fragile and medically complex patients in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care (LTC) facilities, and in the home, providing comprehensive primary care for this population that benefits, body, mind, and overall quality of life since 1996. CareConnectMD is a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) High-Needs Population…
Read More4 Trends to Watch in 2022 for California’s Health Data Progress
California has set the right goals for the years ahead, including initiatives focused on reducing health disparities, effectively delivering care for our most vulnerable residents, and improving mental health services. As one of the nation’s most populous states, with a history of leading innovation and rapidly growing Medicaid enrollment, all eyes are on us to…
Read More2022-23 Budget Request for Medi-Cal Provider Data Sharing and Infrastructure
Manifest MedEx is a proud member of a widespread coalition that is requesting that the 2022 California state budget include funding to accelerate Medi-Cal provider data sharing and build the data infrastructure needed to support CalAIM and meet AB 133 requirements. Coalition members include: Read the coalition’s letter to Governor Newsom requesting funding for performance…
Read MoreData Exchange Framework Stakeholder Advisory Group Meeting #5
“…and then there’s the all-important question: How are you going to pay for it?” — David Ford, Vice President of Health Information Technology, California Medical Association (CMA) Here are our two main takeaways from the January meeting of the Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Stakeholder Advisory Group: Where’s the money? The most interesting and pointed exchange…
Read MoreHealth equity in California must start with health data
This pandemic has amplified long-standing health inequities and exposed a fundamental truth: The information infrastructure of public health systems is severely under-resourced, outdated, and fragmented. Years of federal and state disinvestment have taken their toll on California. I’ve seen it through my decades of public health work in four California counties. Health inequities are driven…
Read MoreDHCS 2022 Comprehensive Quality Strategy
Manifest MedEx (MX) appreciates the opportunity to comment on DHCS’ draft 2022 Comprehensive Quality Strategy (CQS) report. We are a statewide, nonprofit health information exchange (HIE) that connects health records for 29 million people among over 400 organizations that care for them, including six Medi-Cal managed care plans. Through our mission and capabilities, we are…
Read MoreHealth Records Contract to Improve Accessibility For Hospitals
The Fresno County Public Health and Behavioral Health departments are making strides to bring improved access to health records among Central Valley hospitals. Joe Prado, interim assistant director for public health, said this project has been in the works since before the pandemic. Recently, it was approved by the Fresno County Board of Supervisors for…
Read MoreMX January Newsletter
A monthly roundup of news and updates from MX January 2022 Edition TEFCA v1 Launches The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced the publication of the Trusted Exchange Framework the Common Agreement (TEFCA) Version 1. This fulfills a major requirement under the…
Read MoreHow To Get Health Data Infrastructure Right For This Moment Of Medicaid Transformation
Through its California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) program, one of California’s goals is to “improve quality outcomes, reduce health disparities, and transform the delivery system through value‑based initiatives, modernization, and payment reform” for its Medicaid program (known as Medi-Cal). California is not the only state coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic with substantial plans to…
Read MoreManifest MedEx Earns Validated Data Stream Designation in New NCQA Data Aggregator Validation Program
Health plans and providers can rely on data from Manifest MedEx for HEDIS® quality reporting for second consecutive year Emeryville, Calif. – December 22, 2021 – Manifest MedEx (MX), California’s leading nonprofit health data network, announced today that it has earned the Validated Data Stream designation in the new National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)…
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