A Nevada health information exchange, the Nevada Hospital Association, and Collective Medical launched a collaboration to reduce hospital readmissions.
A newly-launched collaboration between Nevada health information exchange HealtHIE Nevada, the Nevada Hospital Association, and Collective Medical is working to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions by promoting coordinated care management.
The collaborative launched in response to rising hospital readmission rates across the states among vulnerable patients. The collaborative will combine health data available through HealtHIE Nevada with Collective’s nationwide network, interoperability functionality, and user generated content and insights.
The Nevada Hospital association will use this data and functionality to more accurately identify and support vulnerable patients at risk for readmission.
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Nevada had the second highest readmission rate in the country in 2018, with 15.6 percent of Medicare patients over the age of 65 readmitted to the hospital 30 days after discharge. HealthHIE Nevada and Collective will help members of the Nevada Hospital Association work together with diverse care teams to lower this number and improve care management among the Medicare population.
HealtHIE Nevada is the state’s only HIE and connects most of the state’s hospitals. The HIE is also continually working to expand its network of additional providers.
“HealtHIE Nevada is excited to collaborate with the NHA and Collective on this initiative,” said Michael Gagnon, Executive Director of HealtHIE Nevada. “Collective has proven its value through partnerships with other state HIEs by providing valuable and actionable insights at the point of care. We look forward to working with Collective to empower Nevada providers to deliver the best possible patient care.”
Collective provides real-time, risk adjusted event notifications and care collaboration platforms to streamline care delivery across emergent, inpatient, post-acute, mental, behavioral, and ambulatory care settings. Collective’s solutions also serve stakeholders in accountable care organizations and health plans.
“We’re grateful to get to work with HealtHIE Nevada and the NHA to demonstrate how care coordination can meaningfully impact avoidable hospital readmissions,” says Chris Klomp, CEO of Collective Medical. “Together, we’re advancing interoperability to the next level to enable true clinical collaboration at scale.”
HealtHIE Nevada is a private, nonprofit, community-based HIE that enables participants to securely share health data with other organizations. The HIE is managed under contract by HealthInsight Nevada, which assists with quality improvement, data transparency, public reporting, health information technology programs, healthcare system delivery and payment reform efforts, and human factors science research and application.
In 2018, HealtHIE Nevada was granted $1.2 million in funding from the Nevada Board of Examiners to support its efforts to improve health data exchange for providers in the area.
The funding enabled HealtHIE Nevada to expand its secure central data repository to support higher volumes of patient health information and facilitate data sharing for an increasing number of Nevada providers.
At a September 11 hearing, one advocate for the HIE — Valeria Hoffman — told the Board of Examiners the funding will “go a long way to help provide the mechanism so patients don’t have to go to separate providers, gather paper records, and carry them around with them,” according to NevadaAppeal.com.
Hoffman had struggled to efficiently collect and share her oldest son’s patient health information across multiple providers when he needed a liver transplant several years ago. When he had an opportunity to receive a transplant, Hoffman had one day to visit multiple providers, access his medical records and X-rays, and deliver the records to providers at Stanford Health Care in Henderson, Nevada.
Improving the state’s HIE would allow other patients and their families to more easily and quickly send health records to providers to avoid similar incidents in the future.
Date: April 30, 2019
Source: EHR Intelligence