MX May Newsletter

Optum, formerly NAMM California, is an independent physician association (IPA) that develops and manages provider networks, representing a network of more than 600 primary care providers and 2,000 specialists in Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego Counties.

In August 2022, Optum’s case management team launched a pilot focused on Transitions of Care to improve post discharge follow-up and reduce 30-Day Emergency Department (ED) bounce backs and inpatient readmissions. The goal was to increase the outreach rate to high-risk patients while also reducing readmission rates. To achieve this, Optum joined Manifest MedEx with a goal of reducing the rate of utilization by utilizing MX’s real-time admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) notifications and longitudinal patient medical records.

Read the full case study to learn how IPAs like Optum can integrate MX tools into their workflow to improve care coordination and reduce ED and inpatient readmissions.

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Advancing Health Data Exchange for a "Healthy California for All"

As California transforms health care through data exchange, interoperability, and integration, the state is at a pivotal moment where health care organizations can collaborate to build and strengthen digital health infrastructure. Manifest MedEx's Vice President of Public Policy & Partnerships, Mimi Hall, will join John Ohanian, Chief Data Officer of the California Health and Human Services Agency, and Kristine Toppe, Assistant Vice President of State Affairs at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), in a discussion on "Advancing Health Data Exchange for a 'Healthy California for All'" for Civitas for Health's Virtual Pre-Conference sessions.

Register for the Civitas for Health 2023 Annual Conference to learn more!
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Voices for Change: 30 Years of Championing Health Equity

Manifest MedEx is a proud sponsor of California Pan-Ethnic Health Network's (CPEHN) biennial Voices for Change Conference themed "30 Years of Championing Health Equity" on June 22, 2023! Visit our booth to gain insight on how health information exchanges play an integral role in strengthening the health data infrastructure, enhancing data interoperability, exchange, and integration in California, and advancing health equity and whole-person care.

Mark your calendars and register here to join MX and over 200 health equity advocates share best practices in policy, research successes and challenges, and opportunities to advance health equity across all sectors of health care. 
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CAHP Seminar: Improving Health Care Data Sharing and Exchange

Earlier this month, Jason Buckner, Chief Information Officer, Manifest MedEx, joined Suzan Mora Dalen, MPA, CHCA, CEO & Founder at QMetrics, Jim Dalen, MA, Chief Health Economist at QMetrics, and Megan Dallas-Hunting, Director of Quality Programs at QMetrics for the panel, “Electronic Data and the Importance of Quality Controls” at the California Association of Health Plans' Seminar: Improving Health Care Data Sharing and Exchange.

Panelists discussed how health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and other data aggregators play an integral role in healthcare. They emphasized that although there are opportunities to integrate more health data, more data does not always mean that it is accurate or complete. Overall, the panel shared best practices in assessing and improving electronic data quality such as establishing data governance processes that set the framework for measurable and sustained quality standards and outcomes and conducting workflow analysis.
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California Medical Association's Health IT Conference: Powering Value-Based Care

Erica Galvez, CEO, Manifest MedEx, joined Mark Elson, Ph.D., CEO, Intrepid Ascent; Dan Chavez, Executive Director, Serving Communities Health Information Organization, and John Helvey, Executive Director, SacValley Medshare, at the CMA Health IT Conference: Powering Value-Based Care. These health leaders had a robust discussion on health information exchanges and how HIOs can help health organizations improve care.
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2023 Northern California State of Reform Health Policy Conference

State of Reform held their Northern California Health Policy Conference where Mimi Hall, MPH, Vice President, Public Policy & Partnerships at Manifest MedEx; Bill Barcellona, Executive Vice President, Government Affairs at America's Physician Groups; Dan Chavez, Executive Director at Serving Communities Health Information Organization; Jennifer Inden, Senior Program Manager, Health Information Technology at Aliados Health; and Timi Leslie,  President, BluePath Health and Connecting for Better Health served as panelists in the “Interoperability & Data Exchange Town Hall” where they discussed methods on how to improve access to data for patients and providers and what interoperability can look like in our state.