System Allows Doctors to Send Records Electronically
May 16, 2012 – Doctors are already required to send immunization records to the State of Michigan. With the new system, the data will arrive in real time with no extra steps for the doctors or hospitals.
The system was launched by a non-profit called Michigan Health Connect. Executive Director Doug Dietzman says eventually the data could travel both ways – so doctors could avoid giving patients shots they don’t need. He outlines tetanus as a common example. Read the full story here.
Agreement Allows Online Data Transfer
May 16, 2012 – The state of Michigan has signed an agreement with Michigan Health Connect, a Grand Rapids-based health information exchange, to allow doctors and hospitals to send electronic child and adult immunization records to the state’s online immunization registry.
“Directly and securely connecting Michigan Health Connect’s 54 hospitals, 961 medical offices and more than 3,500 individual providers to the state’s health records registries will facilitate more timely, accurate and efficient submission of this required data in support of overall patient care,” Doug Dietzman, Michigan Health’s executive director, said in a statement. Read the full article here.
Michigan Health Records Exchange Unveiled
LANSING, Mich. (AP) May 16, 2012 – The thousands of health care providers that work with Grand Rapids-based Michigan Health Connect are now able to send child and adult immunization records directly to the state’s Michigan Care Improvement Registry. Read the full article here.
Michigan Health Connect Receives National Innovation Award
Recognized by Healthcare Informatics for Referrals Solution
GRAND RAPIDS, MI- February 27, 2012 – Michigan Health Connect (MHC) announced today that it received second place in the national Healthcare Informatics Annual IT Innovator Awards. The award specifically recognized MHC’s Referrals solution, which connects healthcare providers and facilities of many types – primary care, specialists, community clinics and long-term care. The free app gives providers the ability to send, receive and manage electronic referrals in their office with any other provider in the MHC network. Continue Reading…
Building Connections on the Care Continuum
For Micky Tripathi, the CEO of the Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative, the longevity of the accountable care organization model-the industry’s latest effort to contain costs and improve outcomes by shifting financial incentives-is anyone’s guess. “It’s a real question mark of whether or not the ACO will work,” he says. “The ‘AC’ part has momentum, but there are open questions around the ‘O.’” Continue Reading…
PODCAST: Bridging the Referral Divide
Doug Dietzman Shares How This App Is A Cost-Effective Way To Link Transitions Between Primary and Specialty Care
This podcast is one in a series of Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award podcasts, which are highlighting this year’s Innovator Award winners. The HCI Innovator Awards Program recognizes leadership teams from patient care organizations — hospitals, medical groups, health systems and others — that have effectively deployed information technology in order to improve clinical, administrative, financial, or organizational performance. This year’s winners will be honored at the Innovator Reception at the upcoming HIMSS Conference in Las Vegas. Continue Reading…
Bridging the Referral Divide
A Michigan HIE Finds An Innovative, Cost-Effective Way To Link Transitions Between Primary and Specialty Care
Michigan Health Connect (MHC), a Grand Rapids-based health information exchange (HIE) founded by leading Michigan health systems, developed a free eReferrals app for community physicians. The value and ease of use of that app spurred rapid adoption and made this project well-qualified for the Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award. What really is impressive is how this app can not only be used to transform communication between primary and specialty care, but how it can be applied to other areas of healthcare. Continue Reading…
Early ACO Adopters Reveal Key IT Lessons
The intrepid hospital and physician office pioneers leading the charge toward accountable care organizations have learned some key lessons about IT–its role, its limitations and its challenges. Continue Reading…
Michigan Health Connect Could Bring More Technology Jobs to West Michigan
A new medical e-records collaboration in West Michigan has already brought seven new jobs to Greater Grand Rapids and looks to create several new technology positions in coming months. Continue Reading…
Connecting Michigan Providers
Exciting things are happening in Michigan, where a broad, regional health information exchange (HIE) has been steadily evolving forward. Michigan Health Connect was officially incorporated in March 2010, and has been eliciting interest across disparate parts of the state. Doug Dietzman is executive director of the Grand Rapids-based information exchange organization. He spoke recently with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland regarding Michigan Health Connect’s development and progress. For more detailed information on Michigan Health Connect, see HCI ’s previous coverage. Continue Reading…
Michigan Health Connect Puts Collaboration In Front of Competition
GRAND RAPIDS — A West Michigan couple adopts a three-year old boy and finds out four years later that the child’s gall bladder had been removed before the adoption.
Now the couple has to take a binder that they fill with their son’s medical history from doctor to doctor, hospital to hospital, to make sure that care providers are up to date on their child’s condition and know what testing has been done, what medication has been given, “so we don’t have to try all of those things over again.” Continue Reading…
HIE Pathways to Success | Porter Research
Health information exchange (HIE) is a market that continues to develop. As the market matures, the healthcare industry has come to recognize two basic types of HIE – the public and the private. A public HIE is led by a third-party organization founded for the purpose of establishing and delivering the technology and services that enable exchange in a community. A private HIE is one sponsored by a hospital or health system to improve collaboration and care quality in its community. Continue Reading…
Michigan Health Connect Building Connections Between Health Care Providers
Eighteen months after forming, Michigan Health Connect continues to reach further across the state and broaden its roster of hospital and physicians. Continue Reading…
Successful eReferral Networks in a Multi-Vendor Community
ACO Data Sharing Will Depend on Technology, a Little Faith
Since the Department of Health and Human Services released its proposed accountable care organization regulations last week, technology that enables data-sharing has suddenly become even more important than it has been since the first-stage meaningful use regulations were announced. And Health information exchanges are poised to play a key role—from aiding physician-hospital alignment to supporting medical home efforts to coordinating care among multiple healthcare providers to improving quality of care. Continue Reading…
Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP)- Health Information in a Heartbeat- Michigan Health Connect’s Experience
View the presentation and interview here.
After Decades of False Starts, Technologies and Policies Finally Converge to Let Providers Share Data
Like practically every other health care delivery network, Poudre Valley Health System is slammed with projects to upgrade and broaden the capacity to create, share and exploit electronic health information about its patients. But the Fort Collins, Colo., provider network also is poised to pilot data exchange with rural hospitals in the region and subsequently around the state. Continue Reading…
Healthcare Industry Wading Through Reform Implications
WEST MICHIGAN — The passage of healthcare reform in 2010 has changed the landscape for the industry as portions of the legislation come into effect through 2014. Healthcare organizations around West Michigan are working to figure out what reform means to them and how the area can take advantage of opportunities in the legislation. MiBiz contacted a total of nine healthcare industry organizations around West Michigan for this article, but some declined to be included. Continue Reading…
MHC At eHealth Initiative’s Annual Conference
It has just been announced that Doug Dietzman, Executive Director from Michigan Health Connect, will be participating on a panel at eHealth Initiative’s Annual Conference titled, Turning Policy Into Action on January 20th, 2011. Interested parties from around the United States will get together to discuss policy issues pertaining to Health Information Exchange and Health Information Technology and will focus on how to further leverage/utilize Health Information Exchange to promote the inclusion of patients in decisions regarding their care.
For more information about this event, visit eHealth Initiative’s website at http://www.ehealthinitiative.org/
