The $87M Push That Could Make or Break Our Public Health Data System

Since its inception in 2004, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has delivered outsized results for its size. This subdivision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a budget of around $60 million and a team of approximately 150 people — small by federal standards —…

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How Medical Practices Can Prepare for the Post-COVID Boom

By Dr. Sara Pastoor, Director of Primary Care Advancement, Elation Health, and Adam Harrison, Chief Growth Officer, Manifest MedEx As California reopens, ambulatory medical practices across the state are gearing up for the surge of catch-up care with their patients. There’s a lot of work to do: Californians fell as much as 50% behind on…

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A 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…

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Is 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…

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Welcoming 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…

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Health 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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Preparing for a Vaccination Campaign of Unprecedented Scale

With COVID-19 cases on the rise and hospitals again overwhelmed, recent good news about three vaccine candidates provides a welcome light at the end of a long tunnel and is a stunning scientific achievement. “This will go down in history as one of science and medical research’s greatest achievements. Perhaps the most impressive,” said Scripps…

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