Month: September 2016

UHIN is pleased to welcome Uintah Basin Medical Center to the CHIE! As the CHIE’s newest data source, the 49-bed hospital in Roosevelt, Utah is utilizing CHIE Alerts, to notify providers when their patients have encounters at Uintah Basin’s inpatient facility or emergency department. Additionally, as of August 29, 2016, Uintah Basin contributes general laboratory information to the Clinical Portal, and is actively working with UHIN to send radiology reports and transcription notes in the near future.

As the only hospital within 25 miles of Roosevelt, Uintah Basin plays a crucial role in coordinating care and enabling seamless hospital-to-home transitions for area residents. CHIE Alerts enable providers to follow up with their patients in a timely manner after discharge, reducing the risk of readmissions and complications. UHIN is working with Uintah Basin Medical Center and area clinics to make transitions of care smoother by connecting more clinics to receive CHIE Alerts and locate patient data in the Clinical Portal.

Current users of CHIE Alerts can receive Uintah Basin’s Alerts without any changes to your existing setup. In addition to Uintah Basin, CHIE Alerts are now available from 18 other hospitals throughout Utah, as well as 27 Colorado hospitals and 14 Arizona hospitals through the Patient Centered Data Home initiative, allowing information to follow the patient no matter where they are in the care continuum.

If you would like to receive CHIE Alerts for your patients, please contact us at chie@uhin.org to get started.

The CHIE is on a roll this summer, with 55 new data sources coming aboard between June and August! The latest to join is Canyon View Medical Group, which is contributing Continuity of Care Documents, CCDs, to the CHIE Clinical Portal as of August 10, 2016. Canyon View Medical Group includes four family medicine clinics, two orthopedics clinics, two pediatrics clinics, and three women’s care clinics, all located throughout Utah Valley. Canyon View will automatically send CCDs, also called patient summaries, to the CHIE for all of their patients.

Simply search for your patients in the Clinical Portal to find Canyon View data in the Patient Summary view, whenever you need it. Additional details, such as the text of provider notes, may also be available under the “Documents” tab. To view these details, click on the CCD you’d like to view and choose the HTML option.

CCDs are now available in the CHIE from:

-Foothill Family Clinic

-Intermountain Healthcare

-Lone Peak Hospital

-41 clinics that are part of Physician Group of Utah, including Heart and Lung Institute and Rocky Mountain Women’s Health Center facilities

-St. Mark’s Hospital

-Utah Gastroenterology (formerly called Mountain West Gastroenterology)

-The Veterans’ Affairs Health Care System

27 hospitals participating with Quality Health Network in western Colorado and 14 hospitals participating with Arizona Health-e Connection, as part of the Patient-Centered Data Home project.

You can see the full list of organizations contributing data to the cHIE at https://uhin.org/the-chies-data-sources/.

CCDs are a user-friendly way to get the latest information on your patients’ health, including problems, medications, allergies, lab results, care plans, procedures, and more. The Patient Summary view displays the data in easy-to-read categories so you can quickly find the information you need, when you need it. We are actively working with a diverse range of data sources to close gaps in care coordination by including their CCDs in the CHIE.

UHIN is excited to announce that Continuity of Care Documents, CCDs, from Physician Group of Utah (PGU), Rocky Mountain Women’s Health Center, and Heart and Lung Institute clinics are available in the CHIE Clinical Portal as of August 1, 2016! The 41 practices contributing CCDs offer care in Davis, Salt Lake and Tooele counties, in specialties including family medicine, cardiology, endocrinology, obstetrics and gynecology and orthopedics. They will automatically send CCDs, also called patient summaries, to the cHIE for all of their patients.

Simply search for your patients in the Clinical Portal to view PGU data in the Patient Summary view, where the data will remain available. Additional details, such as the text of provider notes, may also be available under the “Documents” tab. To view these details, click on the CCD you’d like to view and choose the HTML option.

CCDs are now available in the CHIE from:

-Foothill Family Clinic

-Intermountain Healthcare

-Lone Peak Hospital

-St. Mark’s Hospital

-Utah Gastroenterology (formerly called Mountain West Gastroenterology)

-The Veterans’ Affairs Health Care System

-27 hospitals participating with Quality Health Network in western Colorado and 14 hospitals participating with Arizona Health-e Connection, as part of the Patient-Centered Data Home project

We are actively testing with more data sources, and expect to include CCDs from many sites of care and specialties in the near future.

CCDs are a user-friendly way to get the latest information on your patients’ health, including problems, medications, allergies, lab results, care plans, procedures, and more. The Patient Summary view displays the data in easy-to-read categories so you can quickly find the information you need, when you need it. CCD inclusion is one more way we’re making the CHIE more valuable for you.

UHIN is pleased to announce that Wasatch Peak Family Practice is contributing laboratory data to the cHIE as of July 12, 2016! Wasatch Peak is a four-physician practice in Layton that offers adult and pediatric primary care, as well as specialty services such as asthma and diabetes care.

Two of their physicians also serve as hospice medical directors, so that they can continue to care for long-time patients who are nearing the end of their lives. Wasatch Peak will enable CHIE users to gain valuable insights into the health of patients of all ages! Their data will display in the Clinical Portal’s Patient Summary view.

Transcription and Radiology feeds from Wasatch Peak are also in progress. We are continually working to grow the cHIE’s data to better serve you! To keep up-to-date on the latest CHIE data sources, please visit https://uhin.org/the-chies-data-sources/

UHIN is pleased to announce that Continuity of Care Documents (CCDs, also called patient summaries) from Mountain West Gastroenterology are now available in the CHIE Clinical Portal! As of June 15, 2016, Mountain West will automatically send CCDs to the CHIE for all of their patients. The data will remain available in the Patient Summary view.

Mountain West Gastroenterology’s CCDs contain a wide variety of in-depth patient information such as allergies, medications and notes. Their CCD information is automatically added to the correct section in the Clinical Portal’s Patient Summary view. For example, family history, patient vital signs, and procedures are now accessible as soon as you pull up a patient. Additional details, such as the text of provider notes, may also be available under the “Documents” tab. To view these details, click on the CCD you’d like to view and choose the HTML option.

The Patient Summary view will also display available information from hospitals participating with Quality Health Network in western Colorado and the Arizona Health-e Connection. CCDs from Intermountain Healthcare, Lone Peak Hospital, St. Mark’s Hospital, and the Veterans’ Affairs Health Care System can be accessed by clicking on the External Documents tab. We are actively testing with more data sources, and expect to include CCDs from a range of providers in the near future.

CCDs provide crucial information about a patient’s health in a clear, easy-to-read format, simplifying transitions and coordination of care. CCD inclusion is one more way we’re making the CHIE more valuable for you.

Health Data Management magazine keeps 214,000+ healthcare and HIT professionals and executives informed about technology-driven healthcare transformation. On April 8, 2016, HDM named UHIN’s President and CEO, Teresa Rivera, one of the most powerful women in healthcare IT!

HDM is honoring 75 women leaders in healthcare IT, including Provider/Payer Executives, CIOs-IT Execs, and Thought Leaders. Teresa was named to the Provider/Payer Executives list, where she’s in company with 14 fellow notables including Margaret E. O’Kane, President of the National Committee for Quality Assurance; Dr. Jan Lee, CEO of the Delaware Health Information Network; and Meredith R. Phillips, Senior Chief Privacy and Information Security Officer of Henry Ford Health System. HDM lauds Teresa for leading the charge to modernize the cHIE platform with best-of-breed technology, and for bringing the HIE voice to the national discussion about interoperability. Teresa is also known for her commitment to fostering the development of next-generation IT leaders.

The 75 designees were honored at The Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT Conference, held May 12, 2016 in Boston.

View the slideshow of designees here.

Authorized CHIE users can augment their patient records with data from important new sources! As of February 5, 2016,data is available from Intermountain Healthcare’s 22 hospitals and over 185 clinics in Utah and Idaho, and from the Veterans’ Affairs Health Care System, including emergency services and 10 community clinics in Utah, Idaho and Nevada. Additionally, St. Mark’s Hospital and Lone Peak Hospital are sharing more detailed patient records in the CCD (Continuity of Care Document) format.

It’s simple to locate these partners’ records – just search for your patients as you normally do. Data from Intermountain, the VA and the two HCA hospitals will appear in the patient summary view. Data is automatically placed in the appropriate section for each data type (allergies, lab tests, etc.).

These partners’ information will be available in the patient’s record for 4 hours. However, data for a given patient can be accessed an unlimited number of times by searching for the patient in subsequent queries.

Intermountain, the VA, St. Mark’s and Lone Peak will provide the information available in a standard CCD, including demographic data (name, sex, date of birth, race, ethnicity, and preferred language), problems, medications, allergies, laboratory values/results, vital signs, care plans, immunizations and procedures.

UHIN continually works to make the CHIE a more valuable tool for your office. We are excited about this tremendous progress towards helping every patient get the right care at the right time. This is also an important step in improving care coordination and quality for patients who are medically underserved.

If you have questions about accessing this data, please contact your dedicated UHIN Consultant.

Did you know that you can view medication history in the cHIE for your patients who have had prescriptions paid for by Utah Medicaid? Simply search for a patient, then click on the “Medications” tab in the patient summary view to see a list of medications going back to October 2014. Click the name of a medication to see the fill date, dosage and format (solution, etc.).

Support for medication reconciliation is one more way that the cHIE supports patient safety and care coordination.

UHIN is excited to announce our latest payer connection! As of February 3, 2016, you can get electronic remittance advice (835) reports from Greek Catholic Union of the USA (GCU) delivered through UHIN. Save time and money with fewer paper documents to process and phone calls to make!

UHIN members don’t need to go through any enrollment steps with Greek Catholic Union to receive your 835s. Just check the box next to Greek Catholic Union on Page 2 of a Clearinghouse Change Form and send the form to UHIN’s Enrollment Department at enrollment@uhin.org. We’ll take care of the signup for you, even if you’ve never billed Greek Catholic Union before.

If you accept Medicare beneficiaries as new patients, or if any of your current patients are covered by Greek Catholic Union Medicare Supplement insurance (Plans A, F, G, and N), contact UHIN today to simplify your billing and reconciliation with electronic remits!

Contact our Customer Service: 877-693-3071 or customerservice@uhin.org

Contact our Enrollment Department: 385-800-2547 or enrollment@uhin.org