HealthInfoNet recently went live with its new Health Analytics Reporting Platform (HARP). The service represents a critical redesign of the HIE’s analytic and reporting system by modernizing and expanding the underlying infrastructure, technologies, methodologies, and use cases offered to participants in alignment with current healthcare priorities in Maine and nationally. HARP contains a suite of … Read more
In early 2022, HealthInfoNet began having one-on-one conversations with some of its participants to understand how to receive their social health and/or sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data sets. What became immediately evident was that while each participant was on its own strategic trajectory, each was also curious as to what others in the … Read more
Over the last several months, HealthInfoNet has partnered with the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) and the Office of MaineCare Services (OMS) to produce measurement in support of the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP). The National DPP is a partnership of public and private organizations working to address the increasing … Read more
HIE participants using the eClinicalWorks (eCW) electronic health record (EHR) system can now share their organizations’ critical patient health information with HealthInfoNet in discrete HL7 v.2.x formatted clinical data sets in addition to the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (CCDA) format. Previously, eCW participants were only able to share information with HealthInfoNet in the CCDA format. … Read more
HealthInfoNet is teaming up with the Maine Primary Care Association (MPCA) for a five-part webinar series. The series is designed to highlight the ways in which Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) can leverage the statewide HIE’s services to make lasting, system-wide improvements in the value and quality of patient care and population health. Sessions featured … Read more
In an effort to increase the interoperability of our HIE services to ensure our participant end users are able to access critical information on their patients when they need it most, HealthInfoNet recently went live with our new Clinical Portal InContext service. The service enables participant end users to view their patients’ statewide HIE records … Read more
Over the last several years, identifying strategies for the successful collection, exchange, and operationalization of “social determinants of health” data sets has become a top priority for stakeholders in pursuit of the Triple Aim. Nowadays, nearly everyone working to improve the way care is delivered to individuals who overlap diverse systems can cite the World Health … Read more
HealthInfoNet has a long history of working in collaboration with Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies, most prominently with the Office of MaineCare Services (OMS), to advance shared goals through the use of health information technology. Over the years, OMS has provided various incentives for new connections to the statewide Health … Read more
This fall, our Client Engagement and Clinical Education teams have been hard at work reviewing and distilling more than 400 responses received from participant end users as part of our recent Service Utilization & Workflow Survey. The purpose of this survey was to gain an updated understanding of how our participants’ end users are leveraging … Read more
Earlier this summer, our team attended and presented at the Medicaid Enterprise Systems (MES) Conference, a national convening organized by the New England States Consortium Systems Organization (NESCSO) for state, federal, and private sector individuals to exchange ideas related to Medicaid systems and health policy affected by those systems. The conference is focused on MES procurement, funding, and … Read more