During the event, attendees worked on developing solutions to improve care coordination, including accessing patient information from electronic medical records, accessing patient needs and goals, monitoring and follow up, knowledge sharing and responding to patient needs during follow up.
At the conclusion of the Connectathon, attendees presented the solutions developed which included: an A1C data exchange solution using Salesforce that enables patients to receive discounts on their health insurance by regularly checking their A1C level and working to keep it within the normal parameters; a mobile medication reconciliation tool for health insurance members to log in to confirm the medications they are taking following a hospital discharge; a web-based Transitions of Care dashboard that accesses a patients real time transitions of care information received from health data exchanges using a FHIR-enabled Application Programming Interface; an emergency department utilization tool that measures HEDIS and identifies potential unnecessary visits to the emergency department, and an application that focused on reducing the number of patient's hospital admissions while improving quality measure scores by calculating risk measures and notating these in the electronic health record to be addressed a the patients next appointment with their physician.
About Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services
Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN), part of The MiHIN Group, was founded in 2010 and serves as Michigan's state-designated entity to improve healthcare quality, efficiency, and patient safety by sharing electronic health information statewide and helping reduce costs for patients, providers, and payers. MiHIN, a non-profit, public-private collaboration, includes stakeholders from the State of Michigan, Health Information Exchanges serving Michigan, health systems and providers, health plans/payers, pharmacies, and the Governor's Health Information Technology Commission. The MiHIN Group also includes Velatura Public Benefit Corporation, the Interoperability Institute and Great Lakes Health Connect. Combined, the organizations offer a comprehensive interoperability strategy and a product and services portfolio that continues to transform healthcare and health information exchange in Michigan and across the nation.
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