Making Clinical Data Available Whenever and Wherever Care Occurs
The Patient Centered Data Home (PCDH) is a cost-effective, scalable method of exchanging patient data among health information exchanges (HIEs). It’s based on triggering episode alerts, which notify providers a care event has occurred outside of the patients’ “home” HIE, and confirms the availability and the specific location of the clinical data, enabling providers to initiate additional data exchanges to access real-time information across state and regional lines and the care continuum. In short, this is a free, one-stop-shop connection to receive ADT alerts for patients when they have encounters outside of their general service area.
At its annual conference, Civitas Networks for Health (Civitas) and the Patient Centered Data Home® (PCDH) Governance Council announced that Velatura was chosen as the national technology Solution Partner to support the PCDH initiative. We now get the direct pleasure of being in service to the whole country for further advancement of important regional and nationwide interoperability.
Looking ahead at the Week of Thanksgiving our maintenance window will occur 11/22 instead of 11/24 and only include critical changes. Think of critical changes as ‘must have’ vs ‘nice to have’. If there’s a significant business deadline with funding attached that depends on the change, or the change is required to resolve a break/fix issue with a production service, we would typically consider it critical. Things we will delay are new customer onboardings, incremental version updates, standard patches, new features, etc. that can wait.
How do you refer and communicate with your CBO partners?
Velatura HIE Co is proud to offer Community Care, a safe, secure and effective platform for our participants to connect patients with social services.
Challenges
Finding social supports for patients
Connecting patients to verified social supports
Tracking the continuum of social care
Benefits
Access and customize the open network social service directory
Electronically refer patients to verified social supports
Track and analyze SDoH screening and referral activities
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findhelp is hosting a "Feature Highlights" webinar on December 1 to provide learnings on:
using the Learning Hub to encourage service adoption
updates made to the Scheduler tool to make the intake tool easier to use, for your CBO partners
storing documents important for helping a person and connecting them to programs
group-based analytics available to staff, which allow users to see analytics related to the actions taken by themselves and members of their team navigation enabled group(s). Workers will now automatically have access to two additional PII related dashboards: Site Assessment Details (My Groups) PII, and Site Referrals Details (My Groups) - PII. REGISTER HERE
On September 30, 2022, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) released recent guidance surrounding the Information Blocking Rule through a Blog Post on their website.
In their blog post, the ONC stated they would be launching a dedicated webpage toward information blocking, which would be live on October 6. Further, they emphasized that actors under the rule could expect to see “periodic, experience- driven updates” to the rule as time went on.
In addition to these reminders, the ONC has released information on the number of Information Blocking claims that have been brought over the past two years, and what is notable in the HIE space is no claims have been brought against HIEs in 2022. As a reminder, HIEs (such as VHIEC) have been striving for greater, secure information sharing. We have not only completed a deep dive of the information to make sure our own entity is not engaging in Information Blocking practices, but also released informational packets to help our Stakeholders to comply themselves.
The Sequoia Project, the entity charged with operationalizing the framework for national interoperability titled the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), has released a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on how Individual Access Service Providers (IAS) and actors under the framework will have to respond to individual requests for information.
VHIEC was able to read through this SOP, which predominantly revolves around identity verification and the best practices IAS Providers must use when they receive requests from individuals. IAS Providers must have a credential service provider (CSP) that is approved by Sequoia Project as the RCE and the identity proofing must meet NIST IAL2 (Identity Assurance Level 2), which is defined under NIST SP800-63A. Additionally, the SOP delves into minimum and additional demographic categories IAS Providers are required and should use respectively.
Our non-profit digital infrastructure is responsible for exchanging health informaiton for millions of patients within Midwest and Southeast regions of the United States. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) were created to support the need for better data collection, data integration, and data sharing to support family caregivers, care providers, and the research community. VHIEC is proud to have participated in supporting the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, developed jointly by the advisory couincils created by the RAISE Family Caregiving ACt and the Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Act.
CareView is a tool which helps to rapidly deploy onboarding of services for web-based communications allowing health care teams to access and view vital patient information when and where a disaster happens or when there are planned downtimes for your electronic health record system. This tool must be set up prior to the emergency/downtime
January 11 from 1:00-3:00PM CST will kick off the year with our quarterly VHIEC Midwest Region Advisory Committee Meeting (formerly the MHC Stakeholder Advisory Meeting).
This meeting is for all VHIEC - Midwest Region participants to hear noteworthy organization updates and to engage in dialogue about how VHIEC can best support your needs.
VHIEC Southeast Region
Noteworthy News, Reminders & Updates
Disaster Preparedness & Recovery
VHIEC is able to rapidly deploy credentials for our encrypted web portal allowing health care teams to access and view vital patient information when and where a disaster happens or when there are planned downtimes for your electronic health record system
January 26 from 2:00-3:00PM EST will kick off the year with our inaugural VHIEC Southeast Region Advisory Committee Meeting.
This will be a quarterly meeting for all VHIEC - Southeast Region participants to hear noteworthy organization updates and to engage in dialogue about how VHIEC can best support your needs.
External Events with VHIEC Participation
AWS re:Invent
Nov 28 - Dec 2
Tim Pletcher, President & CEO, Angie Bass, Chief Strategy Officer, and Rich Fish, Chief Information Officer, will join the global cloud community as they come together at re:Invent to meet, get inspired, and rethink what's possible.
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