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Spectrum Healthcare Partners & New England Cancer Specialists Join the HIE Network
HealthInfoNet is pleased to announce upcoming data-sharing connections to both Spectrum Healthcare Partners and New England Cancer Specialists. The addition of these two prominent organizations in our healthcare community continue to demonstrate and expand the value of the statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) for our existing participant network. Furthermore, it
HealthInfoNet Becoming Latest HIE in Nation to Build Connection with PointClickCare
HealthInfoNet is nearing completion on connectivity with the PointClickCare cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) system. The system is used by the majority of the state’s long-term care facilities participating in the Office of MaineCare Services’ Medicare Advantage Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) network. Noteworthy D-SNP facilities using PointClickCare that will soon be sharing data
Prescription Monitoring Program Data Arriving Soon Within HIE Workflows
Update: On November 22, 2021, HealthInfoNet released its integration with the statewide Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) system within its HIE Clinical Portal. For more information on how to obtain access to and navigate the functionality of the HIE’s PMP integration, please visit the HealthInfoNet Academy online learning platform. The State of Maine’s
New Provider Connections Bring Additional Value to Participants
HealthInfoNet’s team of project managers and integration analysts have been hard at work over the last several months in continuing to make connections to healthcare locations serving diverse communities throughout the state. The Health Information Exchange (HIE) now connects more than 850 unaffiliated provider organizations statewide, encompassing approximately 98% of
Staff Spotlight: Delaney Paterson, Manager of Client Engagement
HealthInfoNet recently welcomed our new Manager of Client Engagement, Delaney Paterson, earlier this month. In her role, Delaney will be responsible for initiating new participation and partnership opportunities, ensuring warm handoffs among internal teams for technical project work, and providing ongoing customer support to ensure the needs and interests of
Expansions to the HIE’s MaineCare Analytics Platform Provide Foundations for Future Collaborations
For the past five years, HealthInfoNet has received daily eligibility and monthly medical and pharmacy claims information on Maine’s Medicaid member population from the Office of MaineCare Services’ Medicaid Management Information System. This information is collected, validated, and standardized by the Health Information Exchange (HIE) enterprise data integration engine, processed through
New Website Design Highlights HIE Services & Use Cases
Just as the needs and interests of the healthcare communities that we serve are ever evolving, so is the way in which we communicate and present our value and news to participants through our website and materials. We’ve discussed before how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered how we have traditionally
HealthInfoNet’s HIE Solutions to the CMS e-Notification CoP Rule
As of May 1, 2021, CMS requires all hospitals, per its Conditions of Participation (“CoP”), to ensure a reasonable effort is made to send electronic notifications (“e-notifications”) to a patient’s treating provider(s) at either the provider’s request or the patient’s direction. When patients are admitted/registered to, discharged from, or transferred
Making Connections with Long-Term Care Facilities
HealthInfoNet is partnering with the Office of MaineCare Services (MaineCare) in support of their Medicare Advantage Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) data-sharing requirements. The requirements will connect new long-term care (LTC) facilities to the Health Information Exchange (HIE) as a means of addressing the need for greater care coordination for high-risk individuals. D-SNPs are