January 19, 2016 | Managed Care
Untangling the HIE Mess
by Jan Greene
Technical, financial, existential—health information exchanges (HIEs) have been plagued by all sorts of problems. But payers want in because of value-based payment.
In 2014, California’s two big Blues health plans, neither known for being particularly Pollyannaish, sunk $80 million into building a database of information about the state’s patients. It was an unusual move, given the dismal record of attempts over the past couple of decades to share clinical information. Read More…
January 08, 2016 | Health IT Interoperability
Supporting the Healthcare Data Sets of Tomorrow
by Frank Irving
“We’re moving to a world of very precise medicine using variation, phenome, clinical and claims data to create the best care for patients.”
Health IT infrastructure is getting in on potentially game-changing technology. Long derided for its inability to keep pace with sister industries, healthcare stands on the brink of a dynamic shift. Core capabilities leveraged by the likes of Instagram, Netflix and Apple — to name-drop a few ubiquitous cases — are starting to take root within the domain of providers, patients and payers. Read More…
December 18, 2015 | Becker’s Healthcare
Dignity Health joins California Integrated Data Exchange
Sacramento, Calif.-based Dignity Health will participate in California’s statewide health information exchange called the California Integrated Data Exchange.
Cal INDEX currently hosts 9 million health records, which is approximately one-fourth of the state’s population. Dignity Health will connect five hospitals to the HIE at first and then eventually include all 32 of its California facilities. Read More…
December 17, 2015 | California Healthline
California Hospital News Roundup for the Week of December 18, 2015
DIGNITY HEALTH
Dignity Health is joining the California Integrated Data Exchange — a statewide health information exchange created by Blue Shield of California and Anthem Blue Cross — as a foundational provider organization, according to a release. Read More…
December 17, 2015 | Clinical Innovation and Technology
Dignity Health Joins the California Integrated Data Exchange
The California Integrated Data Exchange (Cal INDEX) today announced that Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, will participate in the statewide health information exchange (HIE) as a foundational provider organization. Read More…
December 17, 2015 | Health IT Outcomes
Dignity Health Joins The California Integrated Data Exchange
Dignity Health to participate in Cal INDEX as foundational provider organization.
The California Integrated Data Exchange (Cal INDEX) recently announced that Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, will participate in the statewide health information exchange (HIE) as a foundational provider organization. Read More…
April 4, 2015 | Healthcare Informatics
What’s the Best Foundation for a Health Information Exchange? How About a Practical One?
by Mark Hagland
My interview with David Watson of Cal INDEX last month spoke to some core sustainability issues for statewide HIES. It was both informative and enlightening to speak with David Watson on March 23 in Washington, D.C., just after he had participated in a panel on interoperability at the World Health Care Congress. Read More…
March 31, 2015 | Healthcare Informatics
Forward March: Cal INDEX’s CEO David Watson Sees Opportunities Ahead
by Mark Hagland
Despite past challenges to HIE sustainability in California, Cal INDEX’s CEO David Watson sees real opportunity—and sustainability—ahead. The development of statewide health information exchange (HIE) has proven to be a very long, twisty journey in California. The nation’s most populous state Read More…
March 20, 2015 | Orion Health
The Cal INDEX Model – The Future of Value-based Care
by David Bennett
Our healthcare system has reached a tipping point. The long legacy of poor communication and gaps in care has contributed to excessive spending with comparatively poor outcomes for patients. Fortunately, many healthcare organizations are beginning Read More…
March 11, 2015 | HealthLeaders Media
HIE Pushes Value Propositions in CA
by Christopher Cheney
Creating a health information exchange that serves as an independent medical record repository for the majority of California’s residents has tremendous potential for payers, providers, and patients. Read More…
November 19, 2014 | Government Health IT
Cal INDEX brings diverse team for huge HIE job
by Anthony Brino
A new payer-led patient information exchange in California is getting ready to hit the ground running. The California Integrated Data Exchange or Cal INDEX, a statewide patient data exchange service created by Blue Shield of California and WellPoint-owned Anthem Blue Cross, has rounded out its leadership team with a CFO, CTO and chief privacy officer. Read More…
August 5, 2014 | Los Angeles Times
Online medical records may soon become a reality in California
by Tim Logan and Stuart Pfeifer
Nearly a quarter of all Californians could soon have their medical histories accessible to doctors and emergency rooms all over the state with just a few strokes on the keyboard. Read More…
August 5, 2014 | The Wall Street Journal
Two Insurers to Pool Medical Records in California
by Melinda Beck and Anna Wilde Mathews
Two major California insurers are teaming up to create what will be one of the nation’s largest health-information exchanges, making the medical records of about nine million plan members available to participating doctors and hospitals. Read More…