Posts by Sarita Choy
How Health Plans and Manifest MedEx Partner to Improve Care, Enhance Coordination, and Increase Efficiency
PDF: In this case study, we’ll review compelling examples of how health plans are using information from MX to improve coordination, increase efficiency, and provide better care, including: Receiving real-time notifications when members are seen in the emergency room, admitted to the hospital, or discharged. Accessing data to streamline HEDIS quality reporting and risk-adjustment. Identifying…
Read MoreA Statewide Health Information Exchange Would Strengthen Public Health
By Claudia Williams, Special to CalMatters Claudia Williams is CEO of Manifest MedEx, a nonprofit health data network, Claudia.williams@manifestmedex.org. Disrupting the health care status quo takes courage. Recently, Assemblymember Jim Wood, who chairs the Health Committee, stood up boldly for a statewide infrastructure for sharing health data to strengthen public health, improve equity, transform Medi-Cal, and…
Read MoreHow HIEs Can Prepare Clients for the ONC Interoperability Rule
Health information exchanges (HIEs) will play a critical role in how providers will comply with the ONC Interoperability Rule. By Christopher Jason March 19, 2021 – This time last year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) dropped the interoperability rule as a part of the 21st Century Cures Act, which primarily focuses on information blocking…
Read MoreStages of Health Information Exchange Implementation
Providers and health IT professionals across the country are demanding health information exchange, but developing a sufficient infrastructure is challenging. March 26, 2021 – The demand for health information exchange (HIE) across established institutional barriers is certain. Healthcare professionals across all sectors display a sense of passion for participating in patient data exchange to improve patient care…
Read MoreCA Provider Coalition to Support a State Health Information Exchange
A group of California healthcare organizations and stakeholders have banded together to support the development of a new statewide health information exchange (HIE). By Christopher Jason March 02, 2021 – Connecting for Better Health, a group of California’s most influential healthcare organizations and stakeholders, announced they launched a coalition to support a California statewide health information exchange (HIE). The need…
Read MoreTop Health Industry Leaders Launch Historic Coalition to Modernize California’s Health Information Systems
Connecting for Better Health Coalition will Improve Patient Care, Safety, and Security with Support from Members Anthem Blue Cross, California Black Health Network, ConsejoSano, Riverside County Medical Association and Others March 01, 2021 10:46 AM Eastern Standard Time SACRAMENTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Connecting for Better Health, a diverse array of healthcare advocates, nonprofit and industry leaders,…
Read MoreIs 2021 Interoperability’s Big Breakthrough Year?
Take an academic, a technologist, a doctor, and a nonprofit leader and what do you get? Agreement that 2021 could be the breakthrough year for interoperability in healthcare. In a lively conversation at the end of last year for the Fierce Health IT Virtual Series, “The future of interoperability—will we ever get there?”, we were…
Read MoreManifest MedEx Receives NCQA Data Aggregator Validation Status
Health plans can now use data from Manifest MedEx for HEDIS® quality reporting Emeryville, Calif. – February 24, 2021 – Manifest MedEx (MX), California’s nonprofit health data network, announced today it has successfully completed NCQA’s Data Aggregator Validation (DAV) program and earned the NCQA status of Validated with Exception, joining only three other data aggregators…
Read MoreWelcoming Adam Harrison to Manifest MedEx
We are so excited to be welcoming Adam Harrison as Manifest MedEx’s first Chief Growth Officer. An athenahealth alum, he brings more than 18 years of experience in leading high-performing sales teams. Adam’s role includes adding new California provider and health plan participants to receive clinical and claims data across MX’s network of more than…
Read MoreHealth Information Exchanges Help Providers Get Beyond Fear and Share Data
The Covid-19 pandemic has proven the dire need for the health-care industry to share health-care data in a secure, private way. Health information exchanges help providers move past their data sharing fears and toward interoperability, says Deven McGraw, co-founder of Ciitizen and a former HHS health information privacy official. This global pandemic is one more…
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