The Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) has been honored as an AWS State and Local Government (SLG) Champion by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This recognition highlights MiHIN's outstanding contributions and innovative use of AWS cloud services to advance healthcare information exchange and improve health outcomes for Michigan residents.
What: Ability to filter access for each user based on the practice
When: Available today
Why: Ensuring the right people have the right access to the right information
How: Required in the new MIGateway Onboarding Form is an Appendix where the end user will advise if they need filtered access, and if so, will denote which practices they'll have access to as it pertains to the data that's available in the TOC Viewer.
This access can be changed at any point - the only requirement is to submit a new, or updated, MIGateway Onboarding Form to your Account Manager and/or Customer Engagement Specialist.
MiHIN is matched by only a handful of other organizations in the world in our volume of ADTs exchange.
Throughout 2023 we have proactively identified and quickly resolved challenges that affected the routing and normalization of outbound ADTS to receiving organizations. These are the types of issues that we are addressing in our migration to our new FHIR-based integrated technology platform.
Because MiHIN executes more than just a one-to-one ADT notification by standardizing, normalizing, measuring conformance and pushing the data to many members of a patients care team, instead of just a PCP, we have hit all the limits of what will become our legacy processing platform.
MiHIN's current platform is limited in its ability to handle the volume and complexity of data that we standardize, normalize, measure for conformance, attribute, and route. Our new platform is designed to run a true integration engine that employs cloud technologies, making it more durable, reliable, and performant. Instead of relying on one off the shelf engine, we will be able to run as many servers necessary to process like a hive. This will allow us to scale our operations to meet the needs of our growing network.
In the coming weeks and months, our team will work directly with participants on their migrations needs, goals and plans.
Health Data Utility: From Vision to Reality in Many States
HDUs are models with cooperative leadership, designated authority, and advanced technical capabilities to combine, enhance, and exchange electronic health data across care and service settings for treatment, care coordination, quality improvement, and community and public health purposes.
MiHIN's executive director, Tim Pletcher, explains that there is a greater openness to the importance of a health data utility model.
MiHIN opted for Smile's platform due to its event-driven design to enable real-time data exchange and updates and its open standards-based ecosystem to support interoperability.
Making Choices Michigan (MCM), adopted as a strategic business unit of MiHIN following an affiliation, started over a decade ago as an independent non-profit focused on preparing individuals and organizations to engage people in Advance Care Planning conversations. MCM efforts were pioneering and advanced the ACP movement for our region.
Earlier this year, MiHIN hosted a series of workshops were hosted to better understand the Michigan environment, stakeholder needs, role we should play to support, and to highlight barriers to success that might exist beyond our reach relating to ACP and Advance Care Documents (ACD).
A white paper was drafted outlining the six most prominent and agreed-upon solutions to increasing the documentation and interoperability of ACDs, as identified by Michigan’s healthcare professionals.
It became clear that our role going forward should remain focused on the completion and movement of patient advocate designations and information to support care teams in serious illness conversations through our Advance Care Document (ACD) use case.
MiHIN will be suspending the Making Choices Michigan (MCM) program which consisted of Advance Care Planning (ACP) training, individual and group ACP facilitation as well as workgroups to help advance the practice of ACP training and facilitation in the state of Michigan.
Learn more here, and should you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Lisa Nicolaou, Cross Sector Data Sharing Program Director at lisa.nicolaou@mihin.org.
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) recently released their Environmental Scan of Factors Influencing Data Sharing and Opportunities to Advance Population Health with a focus on Immunization Information Systems and Health Information Exchanges.
Michigan lead the country in connectivity. MiHIN's bi-directional data exchange provides an array of public health and healthcare benefits including (1) enhanced public health reporting, (2) improved data quality and completeness for race and ethnicity information, (3) identification of populations with low vaccine coverage, and (4) consolidated patient records to improve care delivery and coordination.
As proud HIMSS Michigan Chapter sponsors, our team is exited to attend the 2023 HIMSS Michigan Chapter Fall Conference "Reimagining MI Health" on September 14 and 15 in Mount Pleasant. Tim Pletcher, MiHIN Executive Director, will be on a panel with our partners at MDHHS the Greater Flint Health Coalition to give a Community Information Exchange (CIE) report update. Krystal Schramm, HIMMS Michigan Chapter Secretary and Director of Tribal Engagement at MiHIN, will be discussing tribal health modernization. Other MiHIN team members will also be on site to learn and network with other problem solvers, innovators and change agents that are reimagining Michigan health today.
Dr. Isabell Pacheco, Chief Administrative Officer, will be presenting on Skills & Competencies for Aspiring C-Level Executives and Amplifying DEI in an Era of Healthcare Transformation.
Krystal Schramm, Director of American Indian/Alaska Native Engagement, will join a panel to discuss "Getting to Yes: Data Sharing between States and Tribes."
Discourse around the Blue Cross conformance standards (measure thresholds, definitions, additions, or deletions) to ensure that data being sent through MiHIN is complete, actionable, continually improving, and based on best practices.
Our family of companies provides early career opportunities to address the talent gap in information technology and healthcare to ensure that talent supply meets the current and emerging needs of the healthcare industry.
As our interns and apprentices graduate and are looking for full time positions, we’d love to connect them with your open opportunities in fields such as Integration Services, Project Management, Software Development, Technical Writing, and others in health IT.
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