Announcing Leadership Changes at Manifest MedEx

Manifest MedEx (MX), California’s leading nonprofit health data network, announced today that CEO Claudia Williams has decided to step down from her role at the end of June after a successful five-year tenure building and leading the organization. The Board of Directors is naming current COO Erica Galvez, who also joined MX in 2017, as…

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MX Letter to the California Health and Human Services Agency

In response to the Data Sharing Agreement draft shared by the California Health and Human Services Agency, Manifest MedEx has identified missing key components needed to effectively implement the data sharing mandates enacted in AB 133. We also strongly recommend that the full draft agreement and related binding policies be shared with and reviewed by…

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MX February Newsletter

A monthly roundup of news and updates from MX February 2022 Edition MX Webinar  Save the date for our upcoming webinar on Thursday, March 31 from 12 pm – 1 pm PDT.  The topic will be “Learning from Inland Empire: A Roadmap for Healthcare Transformation in California.”   With all eyes on CalAIM and California’s pressing…

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CareConnectMD Partners With Manifest MedEx To Deliver Value-Based, Wrap-Around Care to Medically Complex Patients

CareConnectMD is a value-based care provider for fragile and medically complex patients in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care (LTC) facilities, and in the home, providing comprehensive primary care for this population that benefits, body, mind, and overall quality of life since 1996. CareConnectMD is a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) High-Needs Population…

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4 Trends to Watch in 2022 for California’s Health Data Progress

California has set the right goals for the years ahead, including initiatives focused on reducing health disparities, effectively delivering care for our most vulnerable residents, and improving mental health services. As one of the nation’s most populous states, with a history of leading innovation and rapidly growing Medicaid enrollment, all eyes are on us to…

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2022-23 Budget Request for Medi-Cal Provider Data Sharing and Infrastructure

Manifest MedEx is a proud member of a widespread coalition that is requesting that the 2022 California state budget include funding to accelerate Medi-Cal provider data sharing and build the data infrastructure needed to support CalAIM and meet AB 133 requirements. Coalition members include: Read the coalition’s letter to Governor Newsom requesting funding for performance…

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Data Exchange Framework Stakeholder Advisory Group Meeting #5

“…and then there’s the all-important question: How are you going to pay for it?”  — David Ford, Vice President of Health Information Technology, California Medical Association (CMA)  Here are our two main takeaways from the January meeting of the Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Stakeholder Advisory Group:  Where’s the money?  The most interesting and pointed exchange…

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Health equity in California must start with health data

This pandemic has amplified long-standing health inequities and exposed a fundamental truth: The information infrastructure of public health systems is severely under-resourced, outdated, and fragmented. Years of federal and state disinvestment have taken their toll on California. I’ve seen it through my decades of public health work in four California counties.   Health inequities are driven…

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DHCS 2022 Comprehensive Quality Strategy

Manifest MedEx (MX) appreciates the opportunity to comment on DHCS’ draft 2022 Comprehensive Quality Strategy (CQS) report. We are a statewide, nonprofit health information exchange (HIE) that connects health records for 29 million people among over 400 organizations that care for them, including six Medi-Cal managed care plans. Through our mission and capabilities, we are…

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