HEALTHeLINK Increasing Care Access and Reducing Health Disparities
Last week, HEALTHeLINK, the health information exchange (HIE) for Western New York, announced an affiliation agreement with Population Health Collaborative (PHC) to drive higher quality care, control costs, and improve the health and wellness of the people in Western New York.
The organizations are coming together to build on HEALTHeLINK’s secure and reliable technology infrastructure for the timely and accurate electronic exchange of clinical information among Western New York health care providers.
Improving health equity and health outcomes in communities with the worst health outcomes, both in rural and minority populations, is an essential focus of this partnership.
To further address health inequities, clinical data will be used to identify areas of the community in need and create a baseline to determine the success of programs focused on improving health over time. It will also enhance the delivery of health care services among providers in the region who are already connected with the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY).
This announcement builds on HEALTHeLINK’s momentum into the population health arena in 2021, where the HIE worked on a total of 83 different projects focused on improving data sharing for use cases such as population health management.
As population health efforts continue to expand for HIEs, the need for comprehensive data analytics and interoperability is also growing. Big data is emerging as the driver of identifying populations in need of care, measuring the care provided to those populations, and delivering care to the correct people.
However, according to the Journal of AHIMA, interoperability is still immature when it comes to the population-level use cases needed to drive outcomes for value-based care. In other words, interoperability also needs to be about populations, and not just individual patients.
Thankfully, the RosettaHealth HealthBus platform makes this possible by leveraging technology, server-less, and cloud infrastructure to provide scalable, secure information transport, data wrangling, and orchestration services.
The platform’s interoperability in the cloud capabilities mean that there are no more hosting tools, labor to manage VPNs or create connections – and no more working through third parties. With full HIE capabilities, the platform can pull, push, and query-retrieve from any data source because the solution complies with all the health transport standards.
RosettaHealth can assist with any health information challenges you might have, book a free consultation with one of our interoperability experts.