How Healthcare data integration and exchange can transform care delivery!

Mamatha Chittireddy is President of HiXConnect.

Overview

The goal of today's healthcare system is to ensure quality and continuity of care by coordinating, collaborating, and communicating with both internal and external providers involved in patient care. Accessing quality data in a timely and effective manner is crucial for enabling better care outcomes. 

Vision and Goal

Transform care delivery through data exchange, that is aligned with Federal Health IT, Mission and Goals. 

Current Challenges

The goal of today's healthcare system is to provide quality and continuity of care by coordinating, collaborating and communicating with internal or external providers caring for patients. It is critical to access the quality data timely and effectively to enable better care. 

Current state of disconnected EHRs and health information silos require a patient to provide their health history and repeat themselves to multiple care providers at different settings, instead of spending that quality time with their Provider discussing the care needs and plans to get better. And, Care Providers have become highly paid data entry personnel! 

A patient’s journey within healthcare system starts when they go to see a care provider. As the patient moves from provider to provider to manage one or more health conditions, individual organizations spend substantial time and effort to connect with either individual providers or Health Information Exchanges (HIE’s) to get a complete health history of a patient. 

To make patient journey seamless and to access data efficiently by care providers, current technology teams take months to build integrations for bringing the data together. These data integrations play a particularly important role in bridging the gaps in care by avoiding redundant treatments and medical errors.

Healthcare industry doesn’t have to be complicated and can be made better and AI capable.  

Introduction

To address this challenge of interoperability there is a need to bring disparate systems together in consolidating and building quality to the data before it can be actionable for clinicians. Despite attempts to lower healthcare costs, organizations implementing data integration strategies are merely exhausting time and resources. 

Through our personal experiences, we deeply understand and prioritize addressing interoperability challenges within pediatric health (especially special needs/conditions), mental & behavioral health, social determinants of health, women’s health (including early detection of complex conditions), neurological deficits, and de-identified data for research. We emphasize the critical need to integrate these health domains to support comprehensive care and ensure communities have timely access to accurate data.​

Having encountered firsthand healthcare interoperability challenges—such as lacking data transformation tools, issues with data quality leading to duplicative treatments, increased costs, and medical errors—we recognize the imperative of exchanging unified, high-quality data across the healthcare ecosystem. Hence in 2019, we initiated efforts to improve access to healthcare data and enhance interoperability for patients. This includes supporting stakeholders like state exchanges, public health agencies, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in advancing interoperability standards. 

Download our white paper and insights on how one can implement an interoperability strategy that's time and cost effective.​

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