Podcasts about health information exchanges

In the new episode of the Future of Psychiatry podcast technology, including artificial intelligence  and health information exchanges  are reshaping the landscape of mental wellness. HIEs, designed to collect and share health data, aim to enhance care continuity despite facing challenges such as underutilization and interoperability issues. AI offers personalized health insights by analyzing data, but ethical considerations like privacy and bias must be addressed. Additionally, the episode highlighted the complexities of personalized care, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and patient-centric approaches. As technology continues to evolve, embracing innovation offers the opportunity to create a more connected and informed future for mental health care.Host: Bruce Bassi MDMore resources, including a full transcript, can be found at our podcast website: https://www.telepsychhealth.com/futurepsychiatrypodcast/We are always looking to grow and learn more about the field of tech and mental health. If you have an idea for the show, want to suggest a guest, or have a suggestion, please feel to message us through our website's contact page. If you want to support the show, please like on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram, and Tiktok and subscribe on Youtube.As always, the content is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. If you are having a medical or psychiatric emergency please contact 911.

Geoff Fallon, VP of Clinical and Business Applications at MaineHealth, explores regional Health Information Exchanges and his experience migrating to the cloud.

From WEDI's National Conference this past October in Washington DC, Civitas Networks for Health's CEO Lisa Bari hosts an engaging panel on the power of Health Information Exchanges with Nichole Sweeney, General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer for CRISP and Elizabeth Killingsworth. General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer for Manifest Medex.    Learn more about HIEs and Civitas Networks for Health at https://www.civitasforhealth.org/

Sunila Levi, VP Digital Healthcare Platform Strategy at CommonSpirit Health, has integrated call center data with suicide ideation data into two Health Information Exchanges to improve real-time decision making at the point of care while reducing the incidence of system outages.

When you go to see a doctor, nurse practitioner, physical therapist, or one of many other healthcare professionals, your health information is typically stored in a secure electronic patient chart. This allows for the collection of comprehensive health information and continuity of care for each patient. However, pharmacists in community pharmacies typically do not have access to this information and rely heavily on prescription fill histories. With the advanced training pharmacists receive today, can this critical information be shared with pharmacists in a way that protects private health information while also enhancing the services that a pharmacist is trained to provide? In this episode of DISRxUPT, Dr. Cathy Kuhn, manager of clinical programs for Custom Health, joins us to discuss how health information exchanges (HIEs) may be a solution that provides pharmacists with all the health information needed to provide advanced clinical services, including chronic disease state management, test-to-treat services, and many others. Listen as we discuss how HIEs can enhance the role of the pharmacist as part of the interprofessional care team for patients.

  This promises to be an incredibly informative podcast for most of us.,  If there was anything learned from the pandemic, it was the importance of data and helping most of us track SARS CoV2 prevalence wherever we traveled when we traveled, as well as to manage vaccine compliance within specific regions or states.  Health information exchange was vital to many public health organizations. And our speakers today were front and center during the pandemic, as well as in some cases, decades before the pandemic, evangelizing this technology for the rest of us. We'll hear from them and discuss both what health information exchange is and what health information hubs could be going forward. I learned a ton during this podcast. I hope you enjoy it.  ST Bland and I are proud to introduce you to three guests: Brian Dixon is a Professor at Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health and a world expert on the public health information ecosystem, including how things are accomplished and the information or tech used to accomplish them. John Kansky is President and CEO at Indiana Health Information Exchange in Indianapolis, which is arguably the exemplar for health information exchanges around the world. Morgan Honea is Executive VP of Contexture an IT services and consulting group in Denver and CEO of CSRI, the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability, as well as CEO of CORHIO. The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization.

The interoperability and information-blocking rules have imposed new regulations and requirements on health information exchanges (HIEs). How are HIEs responding to these new regulations in a space they have been in for decades? In this episode of our special series on interoperability, hear from Dan Paoletti, CEO of the Ohio Health Information Partnership. Dan and Epstein Becker Green attorneys Allen Killworth and Nivedita Patel discuss the role of HIEs in the interoperability landscape and the impact of the information-blocking rules on HIEs. Visit our site for more information and related resources: https://www.ebglaw.com/dhc37. Subscribe for email notifications: https://www.ebglaw.com/subscribe. Visit: http://diagnosinghealthcare.com. The EMPLOYMENT LAW THIS WEEK® and DIAGNOSING HEALTH CARE podcasts are presented by Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. All rights are reserved. This audio recording includes information about legal issues and legal developments. Such materials are for informational purposes only and may not reflect the most current legal developments. These informational materials are not intended, and should not be taken, as legal advice on any particular set of facts or circumstances, and these materials are not a substitute for the advice of competent counsel. The content reflects the personal views and opinions of the participants. No attorney-client relationship has been created by this audio recording. This audio recording may be considered attorney advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules. The determination of the need for legal services and the choice of a lawyer are extremely important decisions and should not be based solely upon advertisements or self-proclaimed expertise. No representation is made that the quality of the legal services to be performed is greater than the quality of legal services performed by other lawyers.

Jaime Bland, DNP, RN, CEO of CyncHealth, explains how doctors in Nebraska and Iowa now are able to exchange certain types of social health data on their states' HIEs, and what it could mean for improving patient outcomes.  

Joy Doll leads us on a deep dive into the importance of Health Information Exchanges, Social Determinants of Health, and the role of OT in Primary Care and Telehealth  Help AOTA to improve our podcasts by completing this one-minute survey: https://forms.aota.org/forms/everyday_evidence

In episode 9 we're joined by Pallav Sharda to discuss the role of technology in healthcare. Pallav's diverse background in medicine and technology gives him a unique perspective on how technology can be used to make us healthier and help our healthcare system run more in a more patient-centric fashion. With technological advancement occurring at a rapid pace (particularly with regard to wearables) and new laws being introduced that allow for more flexibility with health data sharing, this is a very important and timely conversation. Our Guest: Pallav Sharda After finishing medical school, in 2001 Pallav veered into a technology-focused career that enabled him to work at medical device companies (GE, Omnicell), health insurer (UnitedHealth Group), hospital systems (Kaiser Permanente), big tech (Google) and several startups. He currently serves as the Chief Product Officer at CarrumHealth.com, a digital health company working on value-based care transformation. Over the last two decades Pallav has worked with Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchanges, Clinical Data Analytics, Population Health Management and Cloud technology products. He has taught graduate-level Medical Informatics courses at Northwestern University and his book on Health IT innovation and entrepreneurship titled "Before Disrupting Healthcare" was published in June 2016. Pallav received his MBA from Northwestern University, a Masters in Medical Informatics from Columbia University, and a Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Delhi University, India. Pallav received his MBA from Northwestern University, a Masters in Medical Informatics from Columbia University, and a Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Delhi University, India. Find out more about him on pallavsharda.com or LinkedIn, Twitter, and Quora.

On today's show our guest is Denise Hines, who holds a Doctorate in Health Administration, is a certified, Project Management Professional and Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management System Society who serves as HIMSS Chief Americas Officer. Dr. Denise Hines is an award-winning, nationally recognized expert in healthcare technology. She has more than two decades of healthcare experience in a variety of settings, including health systems, physician offices, home health, technology vendors, consulting, state government and revenue management. Dr. Hines was named Chief Americas Officer for the Health Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in January, 2019. She has been a member of the HIMSS Board of Directors and is the Chair Emeritus for HIMSS North America Board of Directors. She is the past president of the HIMSS Georgia Chapter and was recognized as the 2012 HIMSS Chapter Leader of the Year, with Georgia HIMSS named the 2012 Chapter of the Year.

The work of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) is vast and diverse, from SDoH to public health/pandemic response and so much more. This week, Matthew welcomes Lisa Bari, CEO of the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative  (SHIEC), a national collaborative representing more than 81 health information exchanges (HIEs). SHIEC member HIEs serve 95% of the United States population.  What is an HIE? How do they differ from state to state and why are so many people, including Dr. Donald Rucker, former National Coordinator for Health IT, feel HIEs are game changers in health data exchange? Sign up for WEDI 2021, our annual springtime showcase of health IT education, best practices and emerging trends. Use the code PODCAST for 20% off our already affordable registration rates. The can't miss event of the spring is coming, May 14 and 17 (Pre-Conference) and May 18-20 (Main Conference). Register at wedi.org

Does Healthcare leverage public health data effectively? On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Dr. Don Rucker, former National Coordinator for the ONC, joins Charlie Harp to discuss how Health Information Exchanges are in a unique position to re-imagine and pioneer broad-based public health approaches to data. 

Matthew chats this week with Tim Pletcher, the Executive Director for the Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (@MiHIN), the President and CEO for Velatura LLC and the CEO of the Interoperability Institute. Tim discusses his three hats and how they all work in unison, how ONC helped create MiHIN over a decade ago and how COVID-19 has helped identify Health Information Exchanges as major players in combating the pandemic.  

A recent HIMSS article argues that HIEs have proven to be a critically important public health tool in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in order to achieve their full potential, they need to be converted to state designated utilities. On this podcast, the NextGen® Advisors discuss the benefits and barriers to such an evolution.

The discussion continues with guest, Dr. Tim Pletcher, Executive Director of the Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) joins The Dish on Health IT panel of senior consultants, Gary Austin, Jocelyn Keegan and Ken Kleinberg to discuss the role of Health Information Exchanges in healthcare, their role in the response to COVID-19 and what role they can serve in the future once TEFCA is finalized.  Part 2 of the discussion jumps in with how MiHIN responded to COVID-19 by creating a separate group to serve public health needs during the crisis. MiHIN also created a telehealth service to better serve patients and support stay at home orders. Dr. Pletcher explained they acceleration the connections with labs and expressed his desire for results to be sent back via API instead of batch files to expedite results availability. Data links and analytics have taken on a whole new role during this time. MiHIN has taken on a support role which may have pumped the brakes on some innovation projects but there has been opportunity to increase the priority of other projects that could directly positively impact the pandemic response. Jocelyn explained why its so important to meet people where they are in order to make progress. This time is also a time for these simulated barriers to drop. She asked Dr. Pletcher how MiHIN is dealing with perceived security issues when working with innovation projects or partnering with new stakeholders. Dr. Pletcher responded by saying that their biggest challenge right now are Quest and Labcorp because they don't like to share data but this will be resolved through government intervention. The issues generally are not technical issues but business issues with one partner either not wanting to share data or restricting how the data can be used. The group went on to discuss how dropping the rules to facilitate the use of telehealth more readily will be a huge driver for change and innovation and hopefully the rules will remain suspended because patients should have more access via telehealth even over state lines. The conversation moved to data blocking with Gary pointing out EHRs are usually the ones getting the finger pointed at them for data blocking. Dr. Pletcher expressed that Epic or Cerner have never blocked or withheld data in Michigan so he doesn't know who it really is doing the data blocking. Will the US do more around pandemic surveillance like Taiwan and South Korea? Will HIEs support something like? Ken pointed out that some people don't want to be tracked in this way and will opt out or avoid it, however, if it's the only way a person is allowed to get into a ball game or something, they likely will. Dr. Pletcher explained that opt-in and opt-out is an archaic concept. There is a much better framework which would allow patients to express a more granular desire of how they want their data to be used. Doctors have choices too and when patients consent to receive treatment, physician choices come into play. The group highlighted where there are similarities between the financial and healthcare industries related to security and data access until the complexities of healthcare ends the similarities with identity being a major hurdle. With the explosion of patient apps, there is also a trust factor the that comes into play as far as understanding what data that can be obtained from patients apps can be trusted and whether they will look at HIEs as the consolidator of data vs going to Payers.        

Guest, Dr. Tim Pletcher, Executive Director of the Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) joins The Dish on Health IT panel of senior consultants, Gary Austin, Jocelyn Keegan and Ken Kleinberg to discuss the role of Health Information Exchanges in healthcare, their role in the response to COVID-19 and what role they can serve in the future once TEFCA is finalized.  Gary Austin kicked off the episode by having Ken and Jocelyn give their perspective on HIEs. Ken went on to provide a primer on the history of HIEs and their varying role depending on the model before going on to mention that the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) may change the ecosystem once finalized. Dr. Pletcher explained that the MiHIN Group is comprised of 3 companies: MiHIN,  Velatura & Interoperability Institute. Each company serves a specific purpose. Velatura was created to stay aware of what is happening at the national level and to operate nationally. The Interoperability Institute is a research and development group staffed by interns who are the next generation of Health IT professionals. HIEs were compared to public commons, like parks and good roads and bridges that people want to have but don't necessarily want to pay for. Dr. Pletcher pointed out that many HIEs were created prematurely before EHR standards and adoption was where it needed to be for valuable data exchange. Ultimately the value model for MiHIN is based on use cases that are then driven to mass adoption.    The value lies primarily with the government and health insurance companies so payers primarily pay for MiHIN service so providers are incentivized to improve data quality while being subsidized to change their workflow to do so. What's the difference between the successful HIE vs struggling models? Dr. Pletcher pointed out that it's centered around the value the HIE is bringing to each stakeholder and building upon it over time while following the money. Jocelyn added that solving real problems and talking about the elephants in the room to deal with barriers head-on is crucial. She offered that having MiHIN join the HL7 Da Vinci Project is hastening progress. There is an opportunity for HIEs to reinvent themselves as more flexible API standards are developed and take advantage of fielded codifiable exchange tools to get things into real production environments and take out custom codes and massive production efforts. The team continued to discuss the financial model of HIEs and how they may evolve post-COVID-19. Will there be more government funding after COVID-19 calms down? Maybe, but there are a lot of people in need and the general funds at the state level are tapped. There may be some federal programs that look toward automation to cut down on some of he manual processes that are still eating up resources. There may be other non-government revenue streams that open up either with employers or by offering telehealth services at the HIE level. Jocelyn pointed out that while streamlining and making data liquid in general (whether through HIEs or just better adoption of APIs in general) is a money saver for health systems and payers,  patients also win through getting better, more informed care and ultimately leading to better outcomes. Part 2 of this conversation is coming soon!  

High value healthcare is safe healthcare, and studies estimate upwards of 90% of patients seen in an outpatient setting have medication errors in their record. Dr. Amanda Mixon from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, joined our Best Practices hosts to discuss the quality improvement efforts and patient safety intervention methods of medication management. It is important for practices to understand that every time an additional medication is prescribed, there is an inherent risk. Medication management should be patient-centered, and patient education plays a pivotal role. The patient should be educated on why he or she is taking the medication, on how the medication should be taken, and on when the practice should be notified if problems arise. The three main steps of medication management in an inpatient setting can be translated to an ambulatory setting. The first critical step in the beginning of the process is obtaining a medication history for the patient. The next step is one of reconciliation: practices should take the medication history and compare it to what the provider wants to change. Finally, the provider needs to both document changes to the medication list in the medical record and communicate any changes to the family and caregiver. The best data collected thus far in estimating the magnitude of medication errors and the downstream repercussions still underestimate the problem because it is underreported. Studies show that roughly two-thirds of patients being discharged from inpatient care to outpatient care are at risk for having medication errors. Time and staffing present the biggest challenges in this transformation effort, but Health Information Exchanges, investing in an on-site pharmacist to monitor and intervene, and a concerted de-prescribing effort can play a critical role in medication management. Podcast Episode Resources To learn more about the resources referenced in this episode, please see the following links: CMS: https://www.cms.gov/ TCPI: https://tinyurl.com/tcpi19 MidSouthPTN: https://midsouthptn.com/ CDC Medication Management: https://www.cdc.gov/medicationsafety/ 3 Step Screening: https://tinyurl.com/3stepscreening19 Quality by Design: https://tinyurl.com/qualitybydesign19

Health Information Exchanges, or HIE’s, have only existed as a business concept for a decade, but they are already solving many issues related to sharing private health information between providers. Brian Mack, marketing manager for Great Lakes Health Connect, and a former HIMSS social media ambassador, provides a “state of the state” overview of HIE’s. He dives into how medical practices benefit from the solutions that HIE’s can provide, including what to remember about recent mergers and acquisitions.This conversation is brought to you by P3 Inbound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode, we are joined by Brian Mack, manager of marketing and communications at Great Lakes Health Connect, a nonprofit organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan that offers a portfolio of health information exchange products and services.

Health Information Exchanges, or HIE’s, have only existed as a business concept for a decade, but they are already solving many issues related to sharing private health information between providers. Brian Mack, marketing manager for Great Lakes Health Connect, and a former HIMSS social media ambassador, provides a “state of the state” overview of HIE’s. He dives into how medical practices benefit from the solutions that HIE’s can provide, including what to remember about recent mergers and acquisitions.

On this episode, we talk with François de Brantes, Senior Vice President of Commercial Business Development at Remedy, about the future of value-based payment. François shares with us the importance of transparency, measurement, and responsibility and tells us why payment reform is such an effective lever to drive change. You'll hear about models that have been successful, how employers are driving change, and what you can expect from the next generation of value-based payment. In addition, François shares his insights on how we can account for the social determinants of health (SDOH) in our program design.  This section led to a significant "aha" moment for me and underscores the importance of incorporating community-based organizations (CBOs) more tightly with our traditional healthcare delivery system.   View full post and show notes on the web   François de Brantes will be a keynote speaker at the inaugural VBP Forward Conference in Buffalo, NY on February 20th and 21st, 2019.   This episode is sponsored by VBP Forward: VBP Forward will host its inaugural conference February 20-21, 2019 in Buffalo, NY at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The conference will bring together over 200 professionals who serve Medicaid and Medicare special needs or complex populations or have an interest in that value chain. Participants will gain insight into the next generation of value-based payment and will be provided with a roadmap for their path towards effective value payment for special needs populations. In addition to clinical providers, VBP Forward will have a track and focus on guiding community-based organizations down the right path for the collection of social determinants of health and how they can become not only an integral part of care delivery but also the revenue cycle associated with that delivery.   About François de Brantes:  François de Brantes serves as Senior Vice President of Commercial Business Development at Remedy Partners. He leads customer development of the Medicare Advantage, Self-Insured Employer, and Commercial Payer markets. He has spent close to two decades working to transform the U.S. healthcare system by improving incentives for providers and consumers in order to encourage value-based decisions. Prior to joining Remedy Partners, he served as Vice President of Altarum, a national nonprofit. From 2006 to 2016, he was Executive Director of the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3), a not-for-profit company that designed programs to motivate physicians and hospitals to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare delivery. The organization, which merged with Altarum in December 2017, was responsible for the Bridges to Excellence® (BTE) and PROMETHEUS Payment® programs, which compensate and reward clinicians that focus on episodes of care and performance measures. Prior to HCI3, François was Chief Operating Officer of the eHealth Initiative (eHI), which promotes adoption of health information technology in the U.S. He led the development of eHI's HIE Value and Sustainability Model, a method to value services offered by Health Information Exchanges. Early in his career working in General Electric's corporate health care department, he was involved in many strategic programs that created, connected and supported Active Consumers, and defined market mechanisms to reward providers for better performance. François holds a master's degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Paris IX-Dauphine and a master's degree in Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. LinkedIn Twitter   About Remedy:  Remedy operates the nation's largest bundled payment network. Remedy is not only an operator of bundled payment programs, but actively manages and assumes financial risk with providers that are contracted for at-risk bundles. Remedy works hand in hand with the payer and the providers to deliver bankable savings by implementing double-sided risk programs. We believe that it's only by sharing financial risk that bundled payment operators can truly become partners with the payer and the providers in the transformation of the delivery system and achieve better quality and cost outcomes. All of the bundled payment programs that Remedy has participated in and implements are risk-based. https://www.remedypartners.com/   Related and/or Mentioned on the Show:  Quality of Healthcare in America Report   Join our Community!  Trying to drive change within your healthcare organization? Launching a new product? Having trouble getting decision makers attention and buy-in? We'll help you understand the whole picture so that you can align your innovation with the things decision makers care about. And then we'll help you execute It's not easy, but it's possible and we'll help you get there.  Sign up here and we'll keep you up to date on healthcare industry news with podcasts, blog posts, conference announcements and more. No fluff. No hype. 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We discuss the origins of SV Health and the challenges she faces bringing new technology into the slow-moving healthcare industry. Their featured platform HealthNexus is a globally HIPAA compatible protocol and forked from the ethereum blockchain. Kat is Health Unchained’s first female guest and I would certainly encourage other women entrepreneurs to get involved with building these new types of distributed business models in healthcare. SimplyVital Health is hiring. Check out the show notes for more details about the episode and a few cool links related to the show. Show Notes Teach for America experience at the Texas/Mexico border Teaching nutrition and diabetes management as a 7th grade teacher Changing career paths Incorporating SimplyVital Health in Delaware SV Health is equity backed by multiple Venture Capitalists Receipt hash function creates an audit trail to track the interaction of the providers with the each other and the patient to prove care coordination. Creating a healthcare safe blockchain protocol Open-source key pair system foundation Why did you fork the ethereum blockchain? Two reasons: Proof-of-traction is needed in healthcare and there are more developers with ethereum based coding skills Creating the permissioned blockchain to comply with HIPAA and attract healthcare institutions Opportunity in Clinical trials research needs better data access just like the rest of healthcare Regulatory challenges in the blockchain space and difficulty understanding the value of tokens Blockchain bad actors and maintaining your integrity What has your experience been like as a woman CEO and do you think there have been any disadvantages or advantages being a woman in this field? What advice would you give to women who may be interested in this new field of architecting trust with technology? Existing products and traction with users/developers Patient data is super valuable, case in point, Henrietta Lacks cell lines (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/5-ways-henrietta-lacks-changed-medical-science/New Hampshire). Dangers of selling data as your business model (https://hbr.org/2017/06/to-survive-health-care-data-providers-need-to-stop-selling-data) Ontario experimenting with open access to residents’ healthcare data (https://qz.com/1246042/ontario-is-releasing-its-residents-personal-health-data-to-eager-tech-companies/) Data producers, analyzers, and quality control. Creating a marketplace for patients to share data with pharmaceutical companies. Entrepreneurship fundamentals are still critical to be successful with blockchain technology. Decision to use telegram only as an announcement channel. If it’s not too personal, what would you consider to be your biggest mistake? Embracing failure to grow stronger with experience. Lack of good healthcare data access is a business issue not a technology issue. Health Information Exchanges don’t work because of lack of trust and business. News Corner: SimplyVital Health, the Boston-based blockchain healthcare company has joined with The Cool Kids to bring SimplyVital's open source Key Pair System to identify the highest healthcare impact opportunity in the Philippines. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/filipino-company-picks-health-nexus-blockchain-protocol-to-fix-healthcare-nationwide-300666767.html Links: https://www.simplyvitalhealth.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinekuzmeskas/ https://gitter.im/ https://github.com/Health-Nexus

It's rare you read an article about health tech and not see the word "interoperability" at some point, probably more than once. If that were a drinking game, we'd all be really drunk by now. Today I speak with Don Lee, a fellow podcast host about how Health Information Exchanges, otherwise known as HIEs, can assist us in the short term to get our data integration act together. This is a little bit of a reality check— blockchain and more elegant solutions might be coming, but today, right now, we need to meet quality measures. And you can't meet quality measures without having a handle on the trips to the ER, eye exams, and specialist visits that are transpiring outside the four walls of any given provider office.  Don is an accomplished Health IT expert with a 20-year track record of driving value with technology. Don began his career as custom software developer and eventually built and lead a team of more than 30 engineers.  Later, he was the subject matter expert, product manager and head of sales and marketing for a digital health startup that launched a SaaS-platform focused on administrative simplification in healthcare. Today, Don is President of Glide Health IT, LLC, a consulting firm that helps forward-looking organizations align their Health IT and business strategies. The firm specializes in business and product development with a focus on data aggregation, interop, analytics and quality measurement. Don is also the founder, co-host and Executive Producer of The #HCBiz Show!, a podcast dedicated to unraveling the Business of Healthcare. 00:00 Don talks the meaning of Interoperability. 01:30 The problem with interoperability. 02:00 The data sharing risk. 02:25 The change in the interoperability conversation because of Quality Measures. 04:15 The elusive concept of interoperability. 05:50 The best path forward - HIEs. 08:25 “One of the biggest hurdles of Healthcare Interoperability is there is so many people working on Healthcare Interoperability.” 09:15 “We got to be smarter about what we choose to compete on.” 10:10 The issues with the expectations of the digitization of healthcare. 12:50 Currently successful and well-covered HIE groups. 14:00 HIPAA & formatting health data. 18:15 The problem with provider data and the need for a good directory. 20:00 Why it's important that Health Systems know who is in each of their Health Plans. 24:25 What's being done to try and fix provider lists for Health Plans. 28:00 You can learn more by going to glidehealthit.com or don.lee@glidehealthit.com or by going to thehcbiz.com to listen to Don's podcast.

Ryan Stanton, MD, interviews Ben Zaniello, MD, MPH, the CMO of Collective Medical Technologies, about Health Information Exchanges.

Our guest today, Tressa Springmann, is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for LifeBridge Health. Tressa joins us for this final episode in our series around Patient Identity in Value-Based Care. LifeBridge Health is a regional health care organization based in northwest Baltimore and its surrounding counties. LifeBridge Health consists of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Northwest Hospital, Carroll Hospital, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, LifeBridge Health & Fitness, hundreds of primary care and specialty physicians throughout the region, and many affiliated health-related partners.   Prior to joining LifeBridge Health, Tressa was the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. In addition, Tressa has a Masters of Administrative Science in Information Technology (MAS) from John Hopkins University and she currently serves as the chair of the technology committee of the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients. A few of the topics we get into in this episode: An overview of Tressa’s background and how she came to her role at LifeBridge How LifeBridge is approaching the shift from FFS to value-based care and what are some of the larger trends or themes Tressa has seen across the healthcare industry with respect to value-based care How LifeBridge is approaching value-based care using innovation and the types of programs in place at LifeBridge to support innovation Why Tressa believes it is important for patients to own their own medical data LifeBridge’s approach to embracing digital health solution in the population health space and fostering innovation rather than stifling it How Tressa is involved with CRISP - the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients – and what solutions like Health Information Exchanges are doing to forward value-based care Links: Connect with Tressa: LinkedIn Connect with LifeBridge: Website  CRISP – Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients Connect with Healthbox Follow us on Twitter Follow me on Twitter Subscribe and leave a review in iTunes Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com Listen to his episode on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Libsyn

Laura Adams is the President and CEO of the Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI), a center of collaborative innovation that advances health and healthcare transformation. RIQI is the only organization in the nation to win all three of the major HITECH health IT grants which funded CurrentCare (the statewide health information exchange), the RI Regional Extension Center and the RI Beacon Community, bringing in $27M in funding. She was recently appointed to the Governor's Workgroup on Healthcare Innovation. Laura served on the ONC's HIT Policy Committee's Governance Panel for the Nationwide Health Information Network. She is a member of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) Center for Patient and Family Centered Care Advisory Group and chaired the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Planning Committee for the “Digital Infrastructure for Population Health and a Learning Healthcare System” workshop series. Laura led the governance consulting for the Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) Initiative, a RWJF-funded collaboration among the American Board of Medical Specialties, and the Boards and Societies of Internal Medicine, Family Physicians and Pediatrics. She traveled in the U.S. and Europe with W. Edwards Deming in the study of statistical-based quality improvement. She was Founder, President and CEO of Decision Support Systems, a New York-based company specializing in Internet-based healthcare decision support. Laura has been a faculty member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston since its inception. She directed the IHI Idealized Design of the Intensive Care Unit project and served as faculty in the VHA's ICU improvement collaborative. She was among the first to bring the principles of healthcare QI to the Middle East, in conjunction with Donald Berwick, MD and the Harvard Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East. She served as IHI faculty at the inaugural IHI Middle East Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare in Doha, Qatar in 2013. Her publications include co-authoring with Gustafson, et al, Developing & Testing a Model to Predict Outcomes of Organizational Change, Health Services Research, 38(2), 751-776 and co-authoring “Collaborating with Consumers to Advance Health Knowledge and Improve Practice” Herzlinger, R, Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers and Policymakers, 2004. She also co-authored “A Draft Framework for Measuring Progress Towards the Development of a National Health Information Infrastructure, BMC Medical Informatics Decision Making, June, 2005.   Laura co-authored “Improving comfort and communication in the ICU: a practical new tool for palliative care performance measurement and feedback”, Nelson, J., Mulkerin, C., Adams, L. and Pronovost, P.; Quality and Safety in Health Care (QSHC), Aug 2006. She co-authored with Peter Pronovost, MD, et.al. in The Rhode Island ICU Collaborative: A Model for Reducing CLABSI and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Statewide, QSHC, 2010;19:555-561.   She also co-authored publication with M. Vigorito and B. Sexton entitled Collaborative Improvement in Sepsis Identification & Treatment, JQPS, Vol. 37, No. 11, Nov. 2011. RIQI won the 2013 National Council for Community Behavioral Health Excellence Award for Impact in serving those with behavioral health and substance abuse challenges. Laura has received citations from the RI Congressional delegation for her visionary leadership and contributions to improving the healthcare system in Rhode Island. She received University of Northern Colorado's Distinguished Alumni award and in 2014, RIQI was named RI's Most Innovative Company in Healthcare by the Providence Business News. 00:00 Laura explains the mission of the Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI).00:30 Laura explains what the general concept of a Health Information Exchange is--one of the services provided by the RIQI.03:00 The issues with the uptake of Health Information Exchanges.04:30 “What business are we in? We want to share that information because patient's lives depend on it.”06:15 The tragedy of the commons in relation to Health Information Exchanges.08:50 Why transparency is important to the RIQI.09:10 “The only power we have is the power of vision.”10:20 The balance between the financial incentive to hoard data and the moral incentive to save lives by sharing data.11:40 The payment for value system, and how this is encouraging providers to share their data instead of hoarding it.13:30 The improvements that Laura has observed from active Health Information Exchange.15:00 Laura explains the dashboard system that RIQI has developed, and the alerts that this system provides for Nurse Care Managers.17:00 How RIQI is expanded this alert system to extend to patients and their families.23:50 How patients would be able to upload their own information into the Health Information Exchange.26:45 Advanced Directives and other information gaps that only patients are able to provide.29:00 How RIQI's Health Information Exchange system sifts efficiently through an immense amount of data.33:30 How RIQI is connecting their Health Information Exchange system with their major providers one at a time.37:45 You can find out more at www.RIQI.org or by emailing Laura directly at LAdams@RIQI.org.

Jason Brooks is the founder of The Private Practice Consultant, a healthcare consulting company that serves the independent practice in all facets of development, marketing, EHR/PM procurement-configuration-training-and-support, patient engagement, and employee retention and engagement. He is also the Chief Operating Officer at Epical Healthmed, a "concierge" cash-only practice focused on providing in-home or at-work care, and allowing the patients to become fully engaged and take an active role in their healthcare. Jason Brooks is proud to be Consulting as the Business Analyst II for the State of CT, D.O.C. Health Portal Project. They are responsible for managing the procurement and implementation of an EHR to the 17 facilities in the state, and the establishment of a patient/community provider portal to achieve information sharing in the state. Finally, Brooks is an entrepreneur who has a deep desire to provide service and add value for the independent practices out there who are struggling, who are doing their best to maintain a profitable practice, while practicing medicine is becoming a numbers game. To those providers, clinicians, assistants, and staffers, he says...Thank You! How may I be of service? Phone: 413-355-3525 Email: Privatepracticeconsultant@gmail.com Web: privatepracticeconsult.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=346150105 Twitter: @Consults4MDs Facebook: Facebook.com/ThePrivatePracticeConsultant Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105572598175106945303/about/p/pub 00:00 How Jason became a consultant. 1:50 Jason gets into the IT world, works for a company that specializes in Electronic Health Records. 3:30 Jason has a “Aha” moment, realizing that he is working more as a consultant than as part of a specific line of work within the company. 5:00 Jason's current consulting company: The Private Practice Consultant. 5:20 Jason wanted to brand himself as “the differentiating factor” in consulting between practices. 6:05 “I don't work for practices, I work with practices.” 6:30 Some of the questions Jason will go through with companies, in order to assess future goals and how to achieve those goals. 7:10 Reasons why companies want Jason to consult with them. 9:40 How Jason sets himself apart from other consultants. 11:40 The key contributor to financial woes for providers: regulation. 13:00 Why the problems providers face right now are not about quality of care. 14:40 Health Information Exchanges, and how broader expansion of this across country will help improve care provider business. 15:25 What is Health Information Exchange (HIE)? 16:00 Reasons why the HIE is beneficial to healthcare providers. 19:00 Is the “Family Doctor” making a comeback? 22:20 Jason's work on a Concierge Practice with Epical Health Med in Mission, TX. 24:00 The benefits of a Concierge Practice. 27:40 How Concierge Practice translates into hospital care and insurance coverage. 30:00 How this practice model can reduce medical costs in the long term, while still being very profitable for healthcare providers. 35:00 Jason can be reach at his website, privatepracticeconsult.com, called directly at 413-355-3525, or by email at Jason@privatepracticeconsult.com.

May 18, 2014 - In this Policy Prescriptions® edition of the podcast, Cedric Dark, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks with Dr. Ellana Stinson, a practicing emergency physician in Boston, MA, and Dr. Jason Shapiro, Associate Professor and Chief of the Division of Informatics in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. The discussion points include: a review of the article "Does Health Information Exchange Reduce Redundant Imaging?: Evidence from the ED," EMR versus HIEs, regional sizes and accessibility of HIEs. Intro music by Kämmerer, 'Take Left' from the album 'Rhodes to Wisdom,' powered by JAMENDO.

MPT Podcast 21 - Leveraging the Resources of Health Information Exchanges, with guest Mike Meikle, Hawkthorne Group. This Issue (5:08): What is a Health Information Exchange? How can you keep your practice from being left out in the cold? Ways your small practice can leverage technology larger entities are using   [smart_track_player url="http://mptaudio.s3.amazonaws.com/$emed$podcast/MPT_podcast_17.mp3" title="MPT Podcast 21-Leveraging the Resources of Health Information Exchanges" ] Right-click to download