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Public Health Department Aims to Reduce San Bernardino County’s Huge Increase in Syphilis Cases

Over the last five years, California has seen a dramatic increase in syphilis and congenital syphilis cases. Between 2017 and 2020, San Bernardino County experienced a 135 percent increase in congenital syphilis and a 54 percent increase in syphilis, prompting an intensive response from the county’s Department of Public Health. Public Health staff members are…

Harnessing ADT Data: Transforming Patient Care and Addressing Social Needs

Manifest MedEx leads the charge in California by utilizing basic health information for improved healthcare equity and outcomes. Basic health information can provide important insight into meeting patients’ social needs, and that can support providers in meeting patients’ needs and keeping them healthier. In fact, some of the simplest data – like notifications associated with…

HIE Consortium Releases Health Data Utility Maturity Model

The model aims to help state leaders advance the health data utility concept to address public health challenges through HIE. The Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI), a collection of five nonprofit health information exchange (HIE) organizations, has released a health data utility (HDU) maturity model. An HDU is a nonprofit organization serving as a public-private resource for…

eHealth Exchange, CSRI Announce QHIN Partnership Intentions

As CSRI, Five of Nation’s Largest Nonprofit Health Data Networks Intend To Participate in ONC’s TEFCA Through eHealth Exchange, Once Designated VIENNA, Va., Jan. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — eHealth Exchange, one of the nation’s oldest and largest health information networks, today announced that the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI), a collection of five…

HIEs 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…

Experts 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…

California 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…

Putting the Data-Sharing Infrastructure in Place for CalAIM

The California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) program launched Jan. 1, 2022. Its features are designed to create an easier pathway to support care for people outside of traditional healthcare settings and help address enrollees’ health-related social needs. An online panel of stakeholders recently discussed its potential impact. Claudia Williams, M.S., CEO of Manifest MedEx,…

Health 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…

Manifest MedEx to Begin NCQA Data Aggregator Validation for Measure Year 2021

MX will soon begin the process of validating participant data for the NCQA Data Aggregator Validation (DAV) program again, following our successful completion and validation for MY 2020. This program involves audits of MX data, policies, and procedures to benefit the data quality for the entire network. Receiving NCQA DAV status demonstrates that data within…