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Reducing Healthcare Inefficiencies through Clinical and Claims Data Sharing
December 21, 2015
As a nation we recognize our current healthcare system is riddled with inefficiencies. Costs continue to climb and are expected to represent 20% of the GDP by 2021. We spend $210 billion a year on “unnecessary” services and 45% of our care is inconsistent with recommended guidelines. Because care is not well-coordinated, we waste an […]
Read MoreConnecting with Data is Crucial for Medi-Cal
July 1, 2015
More than 11 million Californians – approaching 30 percent of the state’s population – now get their health insurance through the federal-state program known as Medi-Cal (Medi-Cal is the government health insurance program that offers free or low-cost coverage for people who are low-income or disabled). That number is up dramatically in the past year, […]
Read MoreLeveraging Data for Value-Based Care
May 13, 2015
As Americans, we are accustomed to receiving some of the best, most innovative health care in the world. But our health care system is far too inefficient; often spending too much money without a clear connection to what produces the best outcome for the patient. Our current fee-for-service health system pays for volume. More tests […]
Read MoreMaking the Rubber Meet the Road
April 7, 2015
It has taken over two decades of hard work to move much of our country’s health care recordkeeping from paper-based to electronic records, called Electronic Health Records. Making healthcare information computable is a huge foundational step necessary to take advantage of technologies that are common in other parts of our everyday life. Cal INDEX and […]
Read MoreCyber Security: Key to What We Do
February 13, 2015
Data privacy and security are key to our mission at Cal INDEX. We have a robust system in place to protect the data we are entrusted with, and it is critical to delivering on the vision of helping give Californians safer, higher quality, and more affordable health care. The recent external cyberattack on the information […]
Read MoreCal INDEX Progress Report
December 21, 2014
As you know from my prior posts, Cal INDEX is committed to improving the healthcare system in California. Since the announcement of the formation of Cal INDEX last August, we have made tremendous strides in achieving our goal of establishing the underlying data and technology platform to achieve our information-sharing mission. By providing doctors, nurses […]
Read More“No Matter Where” – A New Documentary Explores Health Information Exchange
November 3, 2014
The U.S. healthcare system is undergoing a revolutionary transformation that is allowing doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to access vital patient information electronically no matter where it is needed. This quest to use technology to connect the healthcare system – a process known as health information exchange or HIE — is the subject of […]
Read MoreProviding Californians with a Choice to Participate in Cal INDEX
October 3, 2014
As we prepare for Cal INDEX to become operational later this year, we want to ensure that California residents understand they have a choice as to whether they would like their health information shared with their healthcare providers through Cal INDEX. The goal of health information exchange is to allow physicians, nurses and hospitals to […]
Read MoreCal INDEX: Helping Californians Get the Safest, Highest-Quality Care Possible
September 1, 2014
As someone who has lived in California and worked in the healthcare technology industry here for 20+ years, I have experienced first-hand the challenges our large, complex healthcare system faces in trying to coordinate patient care. Because much of the system of medical records has been paper-based, doctors, nurses and hospitals cannot share vital patient […]
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