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Choice Medical Group Leverages Longitudinal Patient Records from Manifest MedEx to Succeed Under Full-Risk Value-Based Care Model

Founded more than 30 years ago, Choice Medical Group (CMG) is a primary care and multi-specialty medical group and independent practice association (IPA) serving the High Desert community in San Bernardino County. The group is comprised of more than 200 physicians, four inclusive facilities, and 12 local urgent care facilities. Operating on an employed model…

Building Public Health Data Infrastructure Is Key to Precision Public Health

Leveraging health information exchanges gives public health the functionality needed to modernize and flex to the ever-changing landscape of disease and need around us We are at an important crossroads for public health in this country. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that our woefully underfunded public health infrastructures are in desperate need for modernization, starting…

Keep Your Eyes on These Four Health Data Advancements in 2023

California is at a moment of opportunity with ambitious goals to improve health equity and achieve “A Healthy California for All” — goals that will require robust health data infrastructure and will fundamentally change the way healthcare is delivered in our state. This kind of infrastructure transformation, while desperately needed and the right thing to…

Incentivizing Data Sharing Among Health Plans, Hospitals, and Providers To Improve Quality

Health plans can gain efficiencies and improve quality by connecting to health information networks and incentivizing hospital and provider participation as part of pay-for-performance programs. Health plans, hospitals, and providers are increasingly recognizing that sharing claims and clinical data can help them coordinate care, reduce costs, manage population health, improve patient experience and outcomes, and…

Op-Ed: Health Equity for Patients Starts With Digital Equity for Providers

California has made progress building health data networks across the state for years now — data systems that securely deliver information on your medications, health history, and hospitalizations in real time between your different healthcare providers (imagine never having to fill out that clipboard before your medical appointment again!). While those technology systems are significantly…

Industry Voices—How One Community Health Plan Increased COVID Vaccinations by 40% Using HIE Data

The development of safe, effective, lifesaving vaccines is complex scientific work. But the job does not end there. As we’ve seen with COVID-19—and now with monkeypox, polio, measles and other serious public health issues—there is also a science to the process of connecting with the community and getting the vaccines actually administered. Aggregating health data…

Central Neighborhood Health Foundation Uses Manifest MedEx To Improve Post Discharge Follow-Up and Care for Underserved Communities

Central Neighborhood Health Foundation (CNHF) is a network of Medicare-certified, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) that provide care in medically underserved areas (MUAs) in Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire. The mission of CNHF is to minimize disparities in healthcare access and outcomes by providing superior-quality, patient-centered healthcare through an integrated delivery system for…

Congenital Syphilis, Although 100% Preventable, Is a Health Crisis

The U.S. is currently facing a public health crisis — one that is on the rise at an alarming rate, has devastating consequences, and is 100% preventable. And that’s congenital syphilis (CS). Mothers with syphilis can transmit it to their babies during pregnancy or at birth. Approximately 40% of babies born to patients with untreated…

Data Sharing Can Reverse a Health Crisis

A deeper look at the congenital syphilis situation in San Bernardino County Congenital syphilis (CS), a preventable and potentially devastating disease passed during pregnancy, is increasing at an alarming pace in California and nationwide. If a pregnant mother diagnosed with syphilis does not receive timely treatment, the impact of CS on the baby can be severe, ranging…

Manifest MedEx Helps Family Practice Access Patient Medical Records in Real-Time and Ensure Timely Follow-Up

San Bernardino Physicians Associates is one of many family-owned clinics that make up the Clinica Medica Familiar organization. Clinica Medica Familiar is based in the Inland Empire and was formed to provide quality, comprehensive medical care, with bilingual personnel, in a warm, caring environment at all locations. The provider staff at San Bernardino Physicians Associates…