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New Health Equity Project aims to significantly reduce health disparities in MI – U-M Health

01.10.2021

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New Health Equity Project aims to significantly reduce health disparities for vulnerable residents in five Michigan counties - University of Michigan Health | Kara Gavin MiHIN plays key role in new Health Equity Project Excerpts from the article: The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has pledged to provide a $9 million Medicaid match to launch a new Health Equity Project in five Michigan counties. The Health Equity Project aims to help these counties reduce health disparities associated with pressing social needs such as housing instability, food insecurity, transportation, health system complexity, and other socioeconomic factors by: supporting efforts to connect people from historically disadvantaged populations to needed social services, sharing data between relevant health and social service providers to facilitate improved care, providing population-based data and...

Supporting Care Coordinators Through MiHIN Services

10.9.2021

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Published: 9/10/21 - Care coordinators are an essential part of the health care team for many patients but have not historically be able to leverage Health Information Technology (HIT) solutions. Many HIT solutions are designed with clinical providers in mind and either don’t fit the needs of Care Coordinators or aren’t accessible to them. However, MiHIN provides a service which makes these solutions more accessible to Care Coordinators in Michigan. Care coordinators whose organizations participate with MiHIN are now able to request a Care Coordinator ID which, within the MiHIN ecosystem, will function in a similar way to an NPI. This means that Care Coordinators will be listed in the Michigan Health Directory (HD) and able to declare Active Care Relationships via ACRS with the patients they serve and begin receiving timely and actionable information...

ReferralsPlus Onboardings – August 2021

10.9.2021

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Published: 9/10/21 - MiHIN is happy to announce the following practices joined the ReferralsPlus network in August: Allendale Eye Care Dewitt Optometry Mattawan Family Eye Care Okemos Optometry Richard C. Annis, O.D.-Vision Source Ascension Genesys Hurley Cancer Institute Northwest Optometry ...

Use Case Onboardings – August 2021

10.9.2021

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Published: 9/10/21 - MiHIN is pleased to announce the following organizations have onboarded to use cases and now sharing various types of data, statewide through the health information network.  To learn more about a use case, click on the link provided. Immunizations: Beecher Rx DBA Beecher Rd Family Pharmacy Care Medical Clinic of Canton Central Pharmacy-Laingsburg Dr Gobind L Garg MD Genesee Community Health Center Newland Medical Associates - St. Joseph Pontiac Northern Pines Health Center Omega Pharmacy LLC Southgate Family Pharmacy Van Buren Pharmacy Lab Order- Results: Ascension Allegan Borgess Hospital Ascension St. Mary's Hospital (MISAG) Avalon Physician Services ConnectDx Labs Reliance ACO ...

Use Case Onboardings – July 2021

19.8.2021

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Published: 8/19/21 - MiHIN is pleased to announce the following organizations have onboarded to use cases and now sharing various types of data, statewide through the health information network.  To learn more about a use case, click on the link provided. Immunizations Honor Community Health Central Pharmacy-Perry, LLC Central Pharmacy-Chesaning, LLC Binson's Outpatient Pharmacy University Pharmacy Keystone Pharmacy Delton Family Pharmacy Central Pharmacy-East Gun Lake Pharmacy Central Pharmacy -Owosso Grand Rapids Allergy Oncology Hematology Associates of Saginaw Valley, PC – Saginaw Sterling Area Health Center - Hale Clinic Royals Pharmacy West Front Primary Care Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services Lab Orders-Results Lake Huron Medical Center (Port Huron Hospital) Fulgent Therapeutics LLC aka Fulgent Genetics Michigan Urine Toxicology and Research ...

ReferralsPlus Onboardings – May, June and July 2021

19.8.2021

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Published: 8/19/21 - MiHIN is happy to announce the following practices joined the ReferralsPlus network in May, June and July: Pain Recovery Solutions MSU Extension Senior Resources of West Michigan Up North Pediatrics Allendale Eye Care Dewitt Optometry Mattawan Family Eye Care Okemos Optometry Richard C. Annis, O.D.-Vision Source Ascension Genesys Hurley Cancer Institute Northwest Optometry ...

HealthIT.gov 2021 ONC Tech Forum: New Dates – Registration Now Open

28.7.2021

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NEW DATES: Registration is Open for the 2021 ONC Tech Forum! The Tech Forum is now September 10 and 17, 2021. Register today for the all-virtual 2021 ONC Tech Forum to hear industry perspectives on the progress made in health IT over the past year, and how we can continue to advance health technology to improve patient care, health equity, data exchange, and interoperability. What: #ONCTechForum When: September 10 and 17, 2021 Read the Blog Post → (healthit.gov website) View the Agenda and Register Now → (healthit.gov website)...

Use Case Onboardings – May and June 2021

12.7.2021

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Published: 7/12/21 - MiHIN is pleased to announce the following organizations have onboarded to use cases and now sharing various types of data, statewide through the health information network.  To learn more about a use case, click on the link provided. Immunizations Cereal City Pediatrics True Care Pharmacy Central Pharmacy Charlotte Michigan State University HealthTeam March Medical Associates Macomb Medical Clinic Par Wick Pharmacy Stonebrooke Family Physicians BMC Pharmacy West Bloomfield Merriman Drugs Cadila Pharmacy Lab Orders-Results Michigan UrgentCare Brighton Aegis Sciences Corporation Michigan UrgentCare Grosse Pointe Michigan UrgentCare Ann Arbor Michigan UrgentCare Livonia Michigan UrgentCare Waterford Michigan UrgentCare Clinton TWP Michigan UrgentCare Ferndale MIGateway Caring Pediatric Partners PC March Medical Associates Professional Village Medical Center Macomb Medical Clinic Grand Valley Medical Specialists - Grand Rapids Charles G. Godoshian, MD Haddad Internal Medicine Stonebrooke Family Physicians Jonna L Schmidt MD PC...

MiHIN Transition To ADVault

12.7.2021

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Published: 7/12/21 - MiHIN is making a transition from Patient Care Document (PCD)/VIPR to ADVault for advance directive (AD). Due to this migration, your practice and processes will potentially be affected in the near future. Effective immediately, it is recommended that all AD uploading to MiHIN activities be paused.  All individuals are strongly encouraged to carry a copy of their AD on their person when traveling outside of their home health system area. For any retrieval of past uploads into PCD/VIPR, the process remains unchanged during this transition. Those previously stored ADs remain available to MiHIN users via the current retrieval methods. As the future uploading and retrieval with ADVault activity becomes available, we will be sharing details and processes ASAP. We regret the disruption to your current workflow but are confident that the future use of ADVault will provide benefits to individuals and their healthcare team alike.   Please note that...

HIT Roadmap

12.7.2021

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Published: 7/12/21 - In 2019, Michigan Health Endowment awarded Michigan’s Health Information Technology Commission (HITC) and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) a grant with the objective of modernizing the state’s health information technology (health IT) strategic plan.  MDHHS is currently reviewing their findings with stakeholders in order to begin the creation of the roadmap. MiHIN, the designated provider of the state of Michigan’s HIE shared services, has been begun processing feedback and recommendations that came out of these stakeholders sessions in order to align priorities and assist in making the HIT Commission Roadmap a success. Learn more here. ...