The health care industry is on the verge of full interoperability, as two major national health information exchange (HIE) frameworks, Carequality and CommonWell, announced their connection for bidirectional health data exchange.
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The revised edition of the OCHIN Epic Colorectal Cancer Screening Improvement Guide brings together the full complement of OCHIN tools, reports, and recommended workflows. The Guide also features case studies by OCHIN members, highlighting successful innovations that improved this clinical quality measure, and patient outcomes.
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Strategies for engaging with patients in order to improve and enhance research and clinical care are increasingly being implemented in the United States, yet little is known about best practices for, or the impacts of, meaningful patient engagement. Learn about a recently published study on how the Accelerating Data Value Across a National Community Health Center Network (ADVANCE) clinical data research network (CDRN) worked with patients, caretakers, clinicians and other stakeholders to codevelop the ADVANCE engagement framework.
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A new study featured in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine dives into the role of Medicaid expansion in providing those with chronic illness access to regular care they need to stay healthy.
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The Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018, was recently signed into law and includes several big wins for health technology, research, and funding.
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The California Telehealth Network (CTN), under the OCHIN Family of Companies, received $197,000 in federal funds to launch the Opioid and Chronic Pain Telemedicine Project across seven rural counties in Northern California. This program aims to harness the power of technology in the national battle against opioid misuse.
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New on Ella, OCHIN’s LMS, the OCHIN Epic Case Study Collection gathers stories written by OCHIN members, sharing their experiences that have successfully moved the dial on clinical quality measures and improved patient care in their clinics.
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In the first of its kind research, OCHIN, combined with its collaborative partners, have published a study which piloted the capture and integration of data on social determinants of health (SDH)— the conditions of an individual’s environment that impact their health and quality of life – into the electronic health record (EHR).
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