Thought Leadership
Building Public Health Data Infrastructure Is Key to Precision Public Health
Leveraging health information exchanges gives public health the functionality needed to modernize and flex to the ever-changing landscape of disease and need around us We are at an important crossroads for public health in this country. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that our woefully underfunded public health infrastructures are in desperate need for modernization, starting…
Read MoreKeep Your Eyes on These Four Health Data Advancements in 2023
California is at a moment of opportunity with ambitious goals to improve health equity and achieve “A Healthy California for All” — goals that will require robust health data infrastructure and will fundamentally change the way healthcare is delivered in our state. This kind of infrastructure transformation, while desperately needed and the right thing to…
Read MoreIncentivizing Data Sharing Among Health Plans, Hospitals, and Providers To Improve Quality
Health plans can gain efficiencies and improve quality by connecting to health information networks and incentivizing hospital and provider participation as part of pay-for-performance programs. Health plans, hospitals, and providers are increasingly recognizing that sharing claims and clinical data can help them coordinate care, reduce costs, manage population health, improve patient experience and outcomes, and…
Read MoreOp-Ed: Health Equity for Patients Starts With Digital Equity for Providers
California has made progress building health data networks across the state for years now — data systems that securely deliver information on your medications, health history, and hospitalizations in real time between your different healthcare providers (imagine never having to fill out that clipboard before your medical appointment again!). While those technology systems are significantly…
Read MoreIndustry Voices—How One Community Health Plan Increased COVID Vaccinations by 40% Using HIE Data
The development of safe, effective, lifesaving vaccines is complex scientific work. But the job does not end there. As we’ve seen with COVID-19—and now with monkeypox, polio, measles and other serious public health issues—there is also a science to the process of connecting with the community and getting the vaccines actually administered. Aggregating health data…
Read MoreManifest MedEx’s May Webinar – Data Exchange Framework Updates: Available Grants and QHIOs
Save the date for our upcoming webinar on Wednesday, May 10 from 12 pm – 1:00 pm PT. The CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) comprises a single Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) and common set of Policies and Procedures (P&Ps) that will govern the exchange of health and social services information among health care entities and…
Read MoreManifest MedEx’s February Webinar – Partner with Manifest MedEx, a nonprofit Qualified Health Information Organization (QHIO), to Meet Your DxF Requirements
Save the date for our upcoming webinar on Thursday, February 29 from 12 pm – 1:00 pm PT. 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…
Read MoreManifest MedEx’s August Webinar – The Data Exchange Framework: Lessons Learned and New Opportunities
Save the date for our upcoming webinar on Thursday, August 22 from 12 pm – 1:00 pm PT. The California Health and Human Services Agency’s Data Exchange Framework (DxF) has marked a pivotal moment, with over 3000 signatories of the Data Sharing Agreement (DSA). The DxF is critical to the state’s healthcare transformation efforts to…
Read MoreManifest MedEx’s November Webinar – “Meet Your DxF Requirements with Manifest MedEx, a designated Qualified Health Information Organization (QHIO)”
Save the date for our upcoming webinar on Wednesday, November 15 from 12 pm – 1:00 pm PT. Manifest MedEx, California’s largest nonprofit health information organization, has been designated a Qualified Health Information Organization (QHIO) by the California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS)! As a QHIO, Manifest MedEx can help healthcare organizations meet their…
Read MoreManifest MedEx’s May Webinar – Meet DSA Data Sharing Requirements with Manifest MedEx
Save the date for our upcoming webinar on Thursday, May 25 from 12 pm – 1:00 pm PT. Most health care organizations in California are required to share health information in real-time with each other by January 31, 2024. Manifest MedEx can help providers, hospitals, health plans, and other health care organizations meet data sharing…
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