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Manifest MedEx Helps Family Practice Access Patient Medical Records in Real-Time and Ensure Timely Follow-Up
San Bernardino Physicians Associates is one of many family-owned clinics that make up the Clinica Medica Familiar organization. Clinica Medica Familiar is based in the Inland Empire and was formed to provide quality, comprehensive medical care, with bilingual personnel, in a warm, caring environment at all locations. The provider staff at San Bernardino Physicians Associates…
Read MoreClosing Medi-Cal’s Digital Divide Is Key To Health Equity
Those on the ground caring for Medi-Cal patients—the small health care practices, behavioral health and safety net clinics, skilled nursing facilities, county health and human services, and hospitals that form the safety net—need help sharing meaningful patient information to improve health and reduce health disparities. Because of a lack of resources, however, only a small…
Read MoreHIEs Do Double Duty As Public Health Utilities
The concept of a health data utility formalizes the wide scope of functions many health information exchanges already deliver. And work on social determinants of health is adding to the mix. On the heels of this year’s Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, executives from two health information…
Read MoreExperts Say Better Health Data Sharing, Clearer Communication From State Needed To Improve CalAIM
Data sharing is critical to the achievement of CalAIM’s goals, according to a group of experts who spoke at our 2022 Los Angeles State of Reform Health Policy Conference last week. Experts on our “CalAIM implementation issues” panel also spoke about their organizations’ successes and challenges so far with the statewide CalAIM initiative to reform Medi-Cal. Many…
Read MoreMX September Newsletter
A monthly roundup of news and updates from MX September 2022 Edition New Additions to the MX Leadership Team! Manifest MedEx is excited to announce that Trisha Grobeck has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer, and Brittany Weppler has been promoted to Chief of Staff. Trisha brings more than 35 years of experience in accounting, treasury,…
Read More2023 Annual California DxF Summit: “Cultivating Connections: Expanding Health and Human Services Data Exchange to Advance Health Equity”
Thank you so much for attending the 2023 Annual California DxF Summit. We are so excited to have you join as we discuss how to accelerate cross-entity collaboration through the Data Exchange Framework to meet California’s goals around advancing health equity, strengthening California’s healthcare and public health ecosystems, and providing whole person care. 2023 Annual…
Read MoreMX August Newsletter
A monthly roundup of news and updates from MX August 2022 Edition Manifest MedEx Awarded Contract for Surveillance and Public Health Information Reporting (SaPHIRE) We are excited to announce that after a rigorous application process and the submission of a competitive bid, Manifest MedEx has been awarded a contract with the California Department of Public…
Read MoreVirtual Podcast: “Interoperability and HIE Series with Manifest MedEx”
Manifest MedEx’s Chief Executive Officer, Erica Galvez, joined Bill Cioffi, Chief Information Officer of C10 Consulting, and Josh Longiaru, Information and Technology Department Director at United Services, Inc., on CHIME Opioid Action Center’s podcast series, “Interoperability and HIE Series: Manifest MedEx. ” In this episode, Erica highlights how Manifest MedEx is exchanging health data to…
Read More“Partner with Manifest MedEx, a nonprofit Qualified Health Information Organization (QHIO), to Meet Your DxF Requirements” Webinar Recap
The CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) is fully implemented, requiring most healthcare entities to exchange health and social services information by January 31, 2024. Manifest MedEx, California’s only statewide nonprofit QHIO, can help organizations meet their DxF data sharing requirements and securely participate in the DxF. In this webinar, co-hosted by America’s Physician Groups (APG),…
Read MoreCalifornia Health Care Providers Embrace Major Expansion of Health Information Exchange as January Deadline Approaches for Signing the State’s First-Ever Data Sharing Agreement
CalHHS opened a new online portal this week that allows providers to sign on to California’s Data Sharing Agreement, which hospitals, physician organizations, health plans, laboratories, and other health care entities are required to sign by January 31, 2023. The Data Sharing Agreement is the first step in the state’s Data Exchange Framework, which was…
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