Data Exchange - California Health Care Foundation

Data Exchange
Effective exchange of health information allows payers and providers to be able to collaborate and coordinate the care of patients they share. CHCF works to strengthen and scale technologies, policies, and programs that enable efficient and secure data exchange.

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Unite Us

Investing in Innovation, Data Exchange

Unite Us links providers of medical care with providers of social services, enabling communities to coordinate and collectively address patients' nonclinical needs.

Expanding Payer and Provider Participation in Data Exchange

This report outlines a spectrum of policy, contracting, and financing levers available to states working to advance interoperability, with a special focus on California's potential paths forward.

Why CHCF Is Investing to Improve Data Exchange — Again

Data Exchange, Investing in Innovation

Compiling a patient’s complete health record still requires a herculean effort involving multiple web portals, reams of data files, and, yes, fax machines. As new means of data-sharing begin to change that, the safety net should not be left behind.

Catalyzing Coordination: Technology’s Role in California’s Whole Person Care Pilots

Keira Armstrong, Mark Elson, John Weir

Investing in Innovation, Data Exchange, Behavioral Health

Across California, 25 pilot programs are working to closely coordinate physical and behavioral health care with social services to help Medi-Cal enrollees with high-cost, complex needs. This paper delves into the technological successes, barriers, and opportunities encountered by the pilot programs thus far.

Health Information Exchange Metrics and Evaluation Strategy for California

This report outlines a proposed strategy for measuring and evaluating the activity of California's regional health information organizations, which are poised for growth under the new California Health Information Exchange Onboarding Program.

To Switch or Not to Switch: A Guide for Community Clinics Considering Changing EHRs

Walter Sujansky

This guide will help community health center (CHC) leaders weigh the costs and benefits of remaining with their current electronic health record system (EHR) or switching to a different one. Many CHCs are considering this decision, as a shifting health care landscape requires EHRs, and the organizations that manage them, to meet increasingly robust requirements.

For Californians Most in Need, Whole Person Care Pilots Break Down Barriers

Catherine Teare

Behavioral Health, Data Exchange, Medi-Cal

Whole Person Care pilots are gaining momentum and have attracted more than 100,000 enrollees so far. The pilots could make significant improvements in care for the most vulnerable Californians.

Promise and Pitfalls: A Look at California’s Regional Health Information Organizations

Walter Sujansky

Investing in Innovation, Data Exchange

This report examines the various types of health information exchange resources available to provider organizations in California. It focuses on the role of nonprofit regional health information organizations and profiles the largest nine currently operating in the state.

Guidelines for Sharing Behavioral Health Data Show Power of Collaboration

Catherine Teare

Behavioral Health, Data Exchange

Uncertainty about the legalities of behavioral health data sharing — what's permissible and what's required — slows efforts to achieve coordinated and integrated care that could benefit patients and providers. Read the full blog article.

Fine Print: Rules for Exchanging Behavioral Health Information in California

Deven McGraw, Robert Belfort, Alex Dworkowitz

Behavioral Health, Data Exchange

The exchange of behavioral health information is constrained by operational challenges and legal concerns. Manatt Health describes the regulatory framework for sharing such data in California.

Verato

Investing in Innovation, Data Exchange

Verato helps health care organizations reconcile fragmented and duplicate records to create a comprehensive view of every patient’s health and history.

Breaking the Logjam: CHCF Supports State Development of Legal Guidance on Health Information-Sharing

November 4, 2016

Catherine Teare

Behavioral Health, Data Exchange

To break the data logjam that impedes coordinated care, CHCF supports development of state guidance on rules for sharing sensitive patient information among providers.

CHCF to Fund Pilot Project to Develop an Electronic POLST Registry in California

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care, Data Exchange

The new initiative will develop and test a web portal for electronic submission, storage, and retrieval of POLST data, and vastly empower patients' wishes.

Collective Medical

Investing in Innovation, Data Exchange

Collective Medical helps providers serving Medicaid patients with complex needs to better share and act on data about those patients in real time.